Yeah it's not like the word "freedom" hasn't always been deeply embedded in American defenses of slaveryhttps://twitter.com/nberlat/status/878743883596922881 …
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The "liberty" Jefferson celebrated was the liberty of the "self-sufficient" gentleman farmer who is only self-sufficient bc of slave labor
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The fantasy of the antebellum South was a mock-feudal fantasy wherein "a man's home is his castle" in which he is truly free
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The South's prefiguring of a modern libertarian/states' rights attitude and its dependence on a slave economy can't really be separated
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The horror of the North in the South was a horror at the pressing-in of the city, of interdependence, of government in your business
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You can read vicious denunciations from Confederates of Northerners' taxes, their canals, their "internal improvements"
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It's one culture, it's part of the same phenomenon
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