2. I love the way he writes that Garrison would have been irrelevant without Garrisonians like Phillip's and for a long time Douglass. He says abolition was an irrelevant minority movement. Yeah if you also dont count women and blacks in the north?
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There's not a whole lot of disagreement between
@ProfMSinha and@CarlPaulus on this, to be honest. Their books - both of which are spectacular & should be read widely - address different elements. But both books take slave insurrectionary threats seriously as movers of politics.2 replies 1 retweet 14 likes -
Replying to @AstorAaron @ProfMSinha and
There is a long-running debate on the relative weight of institutional political reform (Liberty Party, Free Soil Party, Republican Party) v. abolitionist activism (whether free blacks or whites) v. slave resistance/insurrection threat (incl. prospect of Haiti).
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Replying to @AstorAaron @ProfMSinha and
Add in the Civil War Union army, Lincoln Administration and Congress too. I don't think anybody would claim that emancipation would ever succeed without all of these elements in place. The question is which element is more critical at any given time - a contingency question.
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Replying to @CarlPaulus @ProfMSinha and
I’ve always found a better way to frame the question as: why did slavery survive Dunmore’s Peoclamation in 1775 and the Revolutionary War but not the Civil War?
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Because abolition was not the war aim of the slaveholding British empire and many black people fought on the Continental side to gain their freedom. I discuss this in
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Replying to @ProfMSinha @CarlPaulus and
True. But it wasn’t entirely the Union war aim in 1861 (despite Oakes’s argument...).
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My essential point, & what Bouie's piece tried to write out of the story, is that making abolition a war aim was a choice - an important one in which the character of the president, his party, its ideas, & its voters made a crucial difference. Others chose differently.
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