[DiogenesLamp]

Unfortunately (I say that as the descendant of Southern Unionist Republicans), the "chrstian abolitionist movement" was not orthodox. It was made up of free-thinkers, Unitarians, Transcendentalists, "free love" advocates, and people who wanted to abolish all "power relationships" (including husband and wife). Naturally such people would go after slavery first before moving on to marriage.

Liberal kooks. That's what I try to tell people, but they want to believe what they want to believe.

[ProgressingAmerica]

You two guys are proving my point about how historians have covered it up with all of this CW-era navel gazing as if everything was brand new in 1840.

Separately,

DiogenesLamp, as to this audiobook, it’s more related to our discussions. The last comment you made to me was that you think we talk past each other - I tend to agree. I’m not trying to re-litigate the civil war because as I said above it’s boring.

But I’m not letting the progressives off the hook as you have done and eagerly do. What this book points to (parts of it) is the fallacy that the progressives have created, right up to the 1619 project.