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That certainly doesn’t justify slavery, and also doesn’t really provide any useful context in my opinion. There isn’t a big difference between “they didn’t want
by tshaddox 5y ago
That certainly doesn’t justify slavery, and also doesn’t really provide any useful context in my opinion. There isn’t a big difference between “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom” and “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom and be angry at their former masters.”
- trainsplanes 5y agoChildren and abolitionists weren’t masters and were still killed. There’s a big difference between being angry at slave owners and carrying out genocide. The latter is what happened in Haiti and people in the US actively feared that for decades.