But even the founding fathers, during the time when the Declaration of Independence was being put together and the revolutionary war, the issue of slavery was an issue that was NOT going to go away and was going to have to take a civil war to resolve it once and for all.
Well, the slavery issue was going away already by time the civil war was around because of industrialization and other advances in farming etc.
It wasn’t about freeing slaves, they would be captured and pressed into service, that’s not freedom, hence the underground railway into Canada.
“slavery was an issue that was NOT going to go away and was going to have to take a civil war to resolve it once and for all.”
That’s convenient, as it excuses us from having to justify hundreds of thousands dead, untold Mullins maybe billions in damage, the end of federalism, etc. I believe it’s total bunk. Even Lincoln’s party, the Republicans, were “free soil,” thought slavery was doomed to die where it was, and therefore sought to contain it. If it required a war I’d rather we had gone the John Brown route: arming slaves and helping them revolt. Certainly there’s have been less bloodshed and no fatal wound to our constitutional system.
“slavery was an issue that was NOT going to go away and was going to have to take a civil war to resolve it once and for all.”
That’s convenient, as it excuses us from having to justify hundreds of thousands dead, untold millions maybe billions in damage, the end of federalism, etc. I believe it’s total bunk. Even Lincoln’s party was “free soil,” thought slavery was doomed to die where it was, and therefore sought to contain it. If it required a war I’d rather we had gone the John Brown route: arming slaves and helping them revolt. Certainly there’d have been less bloodshed and no fatal wound to our constitutional system.