The US had quite literally never existed w/o the institution of slavery alongside it. The first enslaved Africans arrived in 1619 & the US became an independent nation in 1776. Abolition required imagining a country that had never existed, a radical reconception of the republic.
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So when I see ppl who express admiration for something like the abolition of slavery, but who turn around & say that something like The Green New Deal is unrealistic, it seems to demonstrate a lack of understanding of how meaningful social change has ever happened in the country.
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It’s not worth getting into positions of power just to propose policy that feels “realistic.” It demands changing the conversation & doing radical things bc that’s what a moment requires. Because sometimes people need to be pushed to understand that something better is possible.
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Thanks for two things: 1. I found this very encouraging, in a way; it reminded me sometimes stuff that seems insurmountably fixed in place isn’t always so. 2. I’m now on Wikipedia learning about Frederick Douglass, whom I hadn’t heard of before.
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Read his autobiography if you can. It's a good read.
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"Realists" have a habit of getting it wrong.
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I agree, but posit that the idea of abolitionism also coincided with slavery for most of it's existence; within the slave population, of course; but also among Quakers and other groups who had a conscience. I don't want to give ammo to the " men of their time" argument here.
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Heaps of Quakers owned enslaved people. I research slavery in the Northern colonies/US and I've worked with a Quaker record collection where a heap of NY state Quakers manumitted the enslaved people they owned during the Revolution, especially in the first two years.
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