Normalizing abolition by starting one state at a time is, in fact, how great advances in human rights are accomplished.https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1432937204410691584 …
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In fact, the abolition of slavery was NOT done a state at a time. However, the establishment of the Jim Crow regime -- and its abrogation of fundamental rights -- was. Like the latter, this is no advance of human rights.
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Replying to @LeoECasey @baseballcrank and
The northern states all abolished slavery at different times.
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Replying to @belugaLives @baseballcrank and
Gee, why do you think we had a civil war?
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Replying to @LeoECasey @baseballcrank and
Starting one state at a time, abolition grew in popularity as more and more people recognized the evil of slavery. The civil war was a continuation of that process, not the very beginning.
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Replying to @belugaLives @baseballcrank and
What an ingenuous narrative. Northern states abolished slavery voluntarily during the revolutionary era. For the next half century plus, southern states fought abolition tooth and nail. It required a civil war, and the forced abolition of the entire country, to end slavery.
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Replying to @LeoECasey @belugaLives and
Not exactly. You forgot the part about South going to war to spread slavery, justified by Dred Scott decision. See http://civilwarkillers.blogspot.com/
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The reality is that the existence of a critical mass of free states was a necessary prerequisite for the abolitionist & Free Soil movement.
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The “critical mass of free states” are the very same states that today respect women’s reproductive freedom. The ones passing your favored laws are the states of the Confederacy that fought to keep slavery, and instituted Jim Crow, state by state.
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