right, the bargain with slaveholders — a strong federal government that could not touch slavery — was built on the assumption that the institution was bound to disappear of its own accord, and blacks would leave the united states.https://twitter.com/Fyodor32768/status/1207367166917521408 …
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AND it gave the planter class & its allies new incentives to generate racist theories of human behavior. It's not a coincidence that more sophisticated white supremacist theories, religion, & pseudoscience occur ~1830s rather than the 18th century
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Popkin draws a similar if troubling comparison between France/Haiti and the US, namely that the impossibility of reconciling "sacred" property rights with the rights of man, enshrined in the countries' respective constitutions, made violent struggle likely if not inevitablepic.twitter.com/GoUkdnBdKf
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Let's not forget the role of Walter Scott and his Romantic Nationalism in all this.
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The constitution fundamentally protects "liberty of capital" as opposed to "liberty of the individual"; individual liberty was grafted on, starting with the Bill of Rights. We've been litigating the tension between the two ever since.
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Graeber wrote about how the theory of self-ownership was originally fashioned to justify slavery. If you could "own" your personal sovereignty, it was no big trick to transfer that ownership to someone else.
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