It's a justified critique of Spielberg's Lincoln that it centered privileged white politicians But I did appreciate how the 13th Amendment was essentially passed by mafia tactics, because that's the only way you pass anything "controversial"https://twitter.com/danialexis/status/1356316427704217604?s=19 …
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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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also that the Northerners were really angry that their poor boys died in the war
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I point this out a lot but in Battlecry of Freedom McPherson strongly considers that an earlier and less bloody end to the Civil War preserves slavery (I’d argue probably to present day)
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The Radical Republicans of 1865+ were kinda great.
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