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Slavery _could_ have been dismantled by voting, just look at other UK colonies. The reason war was required isn’t that voting wasn’t enough, it’s that there wer
by l33t233372 4y ago
Slavery _could_ have been dismantled by voting, just look at other UK colonies. The reason war was required isn’t that voting wasn’t enough, it’s that there weren’t enough votes.
- feet 4y agoWeird how some people forget that the south loved having slaves
- tsimionescu 4y agoIt's not the voting that would have done it - it's the organizations that worked hard to convince people to care. People aren't blank slates who decide their positions in front of the ballot. Politicians supporting an idea don't just appear because that idea exists. That's my point - not that it took a war to end slavery in the South, but that it took decades for slavery to become unpopular in the North (and the other UK colonies). It didn't just happen over night, same as one candidate that is anti the military-industrial complex won't appear overnight and be able to dismantle it.