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“Slavery could never survive in a free nation” so it would have evolved out of the picture. It would have been a question of time. But the abolition movement and the media frenzy wanted quick action, something had to be done, and look at the result, lives lost and the South left in ruins. It would have been better to have left them alone.

Lawdy, Massa. Thanks you ever so much for letting me and my kin know that we will be evolving into free men if those nasty abolitionists and media just shut up. That Frederick Douglass shore is one uppity nigra.

I knows you just want to be left alone, Massa. Except, of course, for me and my kin who picks your cotton, cleans your clothes, cooks your meals, and drives you to church ever Sunday. When this evolution thing happens, be shore and come into the fields to let me know, Massa. I promise I be a good nigra and won't try to run away befo then.