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The slaves themselves had many a rebellion and uprising and ran away without assistance, they didn't need the Quakers or anyone else to tell them what the "stan
by kthejoker2 6y ago
The slaves themselves had many a rebellion and uprising and ran away without assistance, they didn't need the Quakers or anyone else to tell them what the "standard of the day" was.
Wikipedia article on Maroons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maroons?wprov=sfla1
Read Aptheker's American Negro Slave Revolts for some amazing stories (what they don't teach in school)
And there were plenty of anti eugenicists even among the progressive crowds; it’s deeply annoying that eugenics is presented as some kind of de facto worldview in the early 20th century, when it was 100% a minority-held position - unfortunately the minority holding it were the ruling elite and primarily aimed at the most vulnerable and least politically connected members of our society.