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To: Venturer

All excellent questions that our abolitionists should have asked.


7 posted on 06/01/2013 1:36:34 PM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: kabumpo
My abolitionist ancestors busied themselves with disposing of slave catchers over in the family orchard. They'd mark the site with piles of rocks.

Right up against slavery and its evils, the Abolitionists opted for freedom.

12 posted on 06/01/2013 1:43:21 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: kabumpo

Some of the abolitionists knew and assumed that it would desolate the South for centuries. Some of them were aiming at that result.


41 posted on 06/01/2013 3:22:46 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLeNE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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To: kabumpo

I think that’s why the Radical Republicans set up Reconstruction and The Freedmen’s Bank.
General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Special Field Orders #15 was “40 acres and a mule” to every freedman. It didn’t happen.


44 posted on 06/01/2013 3:39:40 PM PDT by Nero Germanicus
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