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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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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I also have a theory that the North did not like the whole "free labor" advantage of the South and decided it would either take an economic stand or lose standing. Just a theory. It's not like the North loved, or even welcomed, black Americans...
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