• WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    You refused to compromise, and now you have 1000 slaves. But at least you can tell yourself you did the right thing, as the slaves, slave on.

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auOPM
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      1 day ago

      Because refusal to compromise = never succeeding?

      You’d be in favour having some slave states and some non-slave states instead of fighting a civil war to end slavery.

      • PugJesus@piefed.social
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        1 day ago

        You’d be in favour having some slave states and some non-slave states instead of fighting a civil war to end slavery.

        But wouldn’t you be in favor of not having any non-slave states until you could assure that there were no slave states? Thus eliminating the political and demographic power which allowed the abolitionists to be a faction strong enough to contest a civil war?