Re:M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti
by tshaddox on Saturday August 14, 2021 @12:56PM
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That certainly doesn’t justify slavery, and also doesn’t really provide any useful context in my opinion. There isn’t a big difference between “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom” and “they didn’t want their slaves to gain freedom and be angry at their former masters.”
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Re:M 7.2 Earthquake 12 km NE of Saint-Louis du Sud, Haiti
by trainsplanes on Saturday August 14, 2021 @08:54PM
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Children and abolitionists weren’t masters and were still killed. There’s a big difference between being angry at slave owners and carrying out genocide. The latter is what happened in Haiti and people in the US actively feared that for decades.