The history of North-South relations in the US is of rolling over for slaveowners again and again and again
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The idea that all of it absolutely had to be done because it couldn't have turned out any better any other way is some self-serving BS
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Here's an idea: if the free states hadn't united w the slave states after the Revolution but HAD held them to account for the war debts
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That objectively would've given them far MORE leverage over the South, whereas the Constitution gave the South leverage over them
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A plot point from Hamilton: the South has been taking money from the North and not paying it back since the fucking Revolution
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Maybe if the North stopped letting them do that the slave economy wouldn't have been so thriving
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"But escalating pressure on the South might've led to a war" A war? A War Between the States? Oh noes
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Kicking the can four score and seven years down the road just made the inevitable war several times bigger, bloodier and costlier
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What it actually came down to was that the North cared a lot more abt not risking their independence from Britain than they did slavery
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Good for them, but that set of priorities was morally wrong, so fuck that
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Lincoln successfully used the sanctity of American independence as a bludgeon against the South, sure
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But they'd used that same sanctity as a shield for their "peculiar institution" for generations prior
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