• Laticauda@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know about you but I think the people who argued in favour of abolishing slavery were not historically ridiculed as far as I’ve ever heard.

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      9 months ago

      Can’t say for sure about that, since we weren’t there, but we are here now, and you can bet humanitarian and progressive voices are ridiculed today.

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        9 months ago

        I can say for certain that they were, having read a book besides Harry Potter.

        Shit, some American pre-Civil War slaver beat an abolitionist to death in Congress and got cheered for it in the South.

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      9 months ago

      Here in the US we had a little scuffle based largely around slavery and those who wanted to abolish it were gunned down by the hundreds of thousands.