white northerners only had a passion for racial justice while they still hated the South for the thousands killed in the war
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i agree-i think freeing the slaves was more about ending the war than being the morally right thing to do
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
white people becoming anti-racist temporarily when they're sitting in judgment of really awful other white people
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Replying to @arthur_affect
if they could have ended the war without ending slavery, they probably would have done that instead
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
that's what the movie Lincoln was about
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
it's about all the politicking it took to get the 13th Amendment ratified
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Replying to @arthur_affect
i need to check that out man. ive been meaning to read up on the civil war too.
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
Lincoln had "freed" the slaves in the Rebel states with the Emancipation Proclamation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
so that set it up so if they let slavery continue it would be like giving them back their slaves as a reward for losing
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few slaves had actually literally been freed during the war but it was on paper so
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