This benighted country didn't finally ban slavery because of stirring speeches awakening everyone's slumbering consciences It passed because the Civil War straight up disenfranchised the rebel states completely Then Thaddeus Stevens bullied the fuck out of feckless moderates
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It passed because a whole bunch of asshole congressmen who didn't have principles about any damn thing but bringing pork home to their district found themselves under the tyrannical rule of an abolitionist Ways and Means Committee chairman threatening to cut off the gravy train
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I need to stress this again: Slavery was only ever banned because the majority of pro-slavery voters went too far, took up arms against the government, and therefore lost the fight to vote It only happened because they were disenfranchised
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If the Radical Republicans had waited around for people to organically change their minds about the issue, in the name of "bipartisanship" and "unity", the 13th Amendment would never have passed Hell we would probably still have slavery today
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