Robert Lowell's great poem "For the Union Dead" is about the the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, the formation of which was pivotal for reasons that Sullivan's blinkered view of history prevents him from seeing.https://twitter.com/sullydish/status/1274012867839365120 …
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That's a banal generalization that explains everything and hence nothing. People have agency and the drivers of action abolition was slaves, via slave revolts.
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Coalition building seems a strange framework to talk about slave revolts.
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The idea of abolition without the slave revolts is absurd.
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