Broken Historian @practicalnecromancy.com · 19d "...the Civil War was fought to preserve the Union and to end slavery." This #FreedomTruck panel (full text in alt) tries to make it seem like Abolitionists were dominant from 1789 to 1860?! And it concedes the Civil War was about slavery, too - a concession only made when convenient, apparently.
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Then below that stuff, there's this... portraying Douglass' 1852 "What to the slave..." speech as... pro-celebration? Douglass is being beautifully SNIDE in that whole speech, even when he appears sincere. At the end of the section they quote, he basically makes a Sally Hemmings joke, FFS.