Re:The Girl in the Kent State Photo
by dragonwriter on Saturday April 24, 2021 @11:32AM
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> It would have been bloodless had the Union just said "okay let's have slavery."
No, because that’s what the Union said—that preserving the Union was more important than abolition. The South declared secession and attacked federal facilities anyway.
The South’s overweaning fear of the distant future possibility of abolition backfired and accelerated it.
No, because that’s what the Union said—that preserving the Union was more important than abolition. The South declared secession and attacked federal facilities anyway.
The South’s overweaning fear of the distant future possibility of abolition backfired and accelerated it.