The quality of the scan is poor, but if you read the context he is arguing against slavery by sarcastically restating his opponents’ views: https://archive.org/stream/speechofhenryber00berr/speechofhenryber00berr_djvu.txt … https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1050759853466112003 …
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I had no actual historical knowledge of this topic, btw. The only clue I had to go on was how EXTREMELY FUCKING OBVIOUS it was that Berry’s speech on extinguishing the light in slaves’ souls was sarcastic.
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The lesson is just like what Justine Sacco taught us: if you’re woke, and you say to your opponents “OMG, listen! This is what you sound like!” then history will remember you as a monster, because History has poor reading comprehension.
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