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    1. David Weigel‏Verified account @daveweigel 9 Jul 2020

      David Weigel Retweeted James Bovard

      Look, if a "was the Civil War worth it" debate is what it takes for the takeosphere to shut up about Harper's, I'm for it.https://twitter.com/JimBovard/status/1281274522709172225 …

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      James Bovard @JimBovard
      How many folks cheerleading for John Brown & the Civil War know that post-war ex-slaves had a mortality rate @ 200+ times higher than the COVID-19 fatalities this year? https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/19th-century-radical-chic-the-transcendentalists-love-affair-with-john-brown/ …
      16 replies 25 retweets 315 likes
    2. Franklin Harris‏ @FranklinH3000 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @daveweigel

      Counter-historicals is always a crapshoot, but the U.S. was the only nation in the Western hemisphere apart from Haiti that needed violence to end slavery, so possibly there was an alternative. However, I view the American Civil War as the 3rd English Civil War, so I figure North

      6 replies 1 retweet 15 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @FranklinH3000 @daveweigel

      The American Revolution was the real problem. It locked in the power of the planter elite & also ideology of Lockean property rights (providing basis for confederate worldview).

      5 replies 2 retweets 69 likes
    4. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000 @daveweigel

      It did transform the slaveholding elite into a major political constituency from a peripheral, parochial one. But this is a very limited view of the American Revolution.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 9 Jul 2020
      Replying to @joshtpm @FranklinH3000 @daveweigel

      Right -- the Revolution also gave impetus and legitimacy to the emerging anti-slavery movement. It was a contrary phenomenon and out of its contradictions led to the civil war.

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @FranklinH3000 @daveweigel

          In many ways accurate. Also the case that America rapidly expanded the democratic franchise far in advance of any other country in the world in the first decades after the Revolution.

          2 replies 1 retweet 27 likes
        3. Dumbstache*‏ @Dnlmsstch 9 Jul 2020
          Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet and

          Also after abolition and the civil war we implemented birth right citizenship for all and that is the greatest advancement for multiculturalism in history

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