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Also a country that fought a bloody civil war to abolish slavery less than 90 years after its founding.

• krapp 4y ago
  The US didn't abolish slavery, they made it illegal "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted," meaning only the federal and state governments were allowed to practice slavery from that point forward. That intentional backdoor has been used to oppress and re-enslave America's black population via unjust laws, incarceration and forced labor ever since that bloody civil war ended. There's a reason prisons in the South make their (predominantly black) inmates pick cotton, and it isn't because that's cost effective. Prison labor is a direct reinstatement of the former slave labor system, and many prisons in the South were formerly slave plantations.
• Ekaros 4y ago
  Or was it about control, subjugation and power? Ofc, centuries of propaganda and mind washing does wonders. After all history is written by victors...
  • steventhedev 4y ago
    100% about slavery (from the mouth of the southern states themselves): https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati... That was just the first result from searching for "letters of secession"
    • Ekaros 4y ago
      Question wasn't about secession, but the following invasion.
      • steventhedev 4y ago
        The invasion was in response to Confederate attacks on Union forts - starting with Fort Sumter. Saying the civil war is not about slavery because the invasion was about responding to Confederate belligerence is like saying that someone who died with Covid-19 actually died from heart failure. You might be technically correct (most people's hearts fail when they die), but it's at best pedantic and at worst disingenuous.