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Certainly not in rayiners golden era. Slavery wasn't abolished through democracy and civil rights were won 60 years after the end of rayiners golden era.
by ianleeclark 6y ago
Certainly not in rayiners golden era. Slavery wasn't abolished through democracy and civil rights were won 60 years after the end of rayiners golden era.
- jordan_curve 6y agoHow did we get the 13th amendment if not through the democratic process described in the constitution? There’s some semantic argument here about whether there’s a causal relationship between democracy and legislation, but that’s missing the point. Slavery in the U.S. was a democratic issue since its inception. Although Jefferson’s victory over the Federalists largely reframed the concerns of the voting populace away from slavery for most of the early 19th century, abolitionism eventually become an insurmountable movement. This movement had so much public support for and against it, that it grew into a civil war. I’m not sure how you can justify that it wasn’t democratic.