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.
This is another day's argument I've had many times, but "statist" conflates wartime policies with Republican visions for how to run the nation in peacetime, & frontier-specific policies with GOP vision for the settled parts of the country.
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So, in other words, GOP utopian theories which were not consonant with lived experience, should be privileged over how it actually *did* govern. Moreover, Republican held states in Reconstruction South were, in some measure, harbingers if social democracy.
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And Walker and Moley—what was that about?
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