> while there was incredible disagreement and violence I think folks then still recognized one another as Americans at the base level. Today MAGA and Leftists h

> while there was incredible disagreement and violence I think folks then still recognized one another as Americans at the base level. Today MAGA and Leftists hate each other so much they’ve lost even that. Mother of absurdity. You should read what they wrote and said back then. And how much violence they enacted. And no, slaves were not recognized as americans or even humans. The abolitionists were hated more in the south.