RINO Tom
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« on: March 22, 2023, 01:04:52 PM » |
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Eh, I don't think too long. Even many of the slave-holding Founding Fathers from the South (especially Washington, Jefferson and Madison) would have seen the Confederates' views on slavery as a radical departure from what they were preaching. Slavery increased dramatically in the mid-1800s, and "The South" of the CSA was way more dependent on it than "The South" before that. You could use that to argue that this trend would have continued if not interrupted by the Union, but my point is that the cultural attitudes toward slavery in the South were not remnants of the "traditional point of view" - it was a weird, creepy last gasp.
1890s at the absolute latest, and it would be dying. If 1888 Brazil abolished it ... slavery in America would not have outlived that by too long.
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