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#GOP #Slavery #CivilWar #Religion
Our Governor, I live in Florida, basically said slavery was no big deal until the Civil War. Well, pardon my french, but it was a BFD for the slaves!!
@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess It's also ahistorical as applied to white people. The overriding political rift for nearly a century in American consciousness was slavery. It was slavery when Jefferson wrote his first draft of the Declaration of Independence which includes a giant paragraph indicting the institution of slavery as unchristian and inflicted on the colonies by the King.
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/ruffdrft.html
Note, you can be an antiblack racist and also an abolitionist.
@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess A United States Senator was beaten to the point of being permanently disabled on the steps of the capitol over slavery policy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Charles_Sumner
Schoolchildren are aware of the Missouri Compromise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Compromise
@ostrich @jentrification @historianess
I have read a number of times that the Evangelical movement really took off in the South because of not wanting integration! That is not all that long ago!
@JoeyD @jentrification @historianess Actually the temperance movement and prohibition probably did a lot of that. Half a century earlier "evangelicalism" was conflated with abolitionism.
It was somewhere in the postwar period that advances in science caused the fundamentalist-modernist split and the fundies rebranded as the "true" evangelicals, mainly following conservative (anticommunist, anti-integration) politics.
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