A ton of ppl meant "land of the free" as in "land of the race that was too awesome to get enslaved"https://twitter.com/rabidbadger/status/770335240971808768 …
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The Secretary of War nixed that bc he said it would be inappropriate for a "people who never had been and never would be slaves"
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That Secretary of War was Jefferson Davis, btw
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to troll the slavers who aped Liberty-talk, or because he himself was blind to irony?
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the sculptor married Julia Ward Howe's sister so presumably he wasn't pro slavefy
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