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[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

the Founders’ vision of containing slavery for the purpose of eventually extinguishing it

Categorically not the founders vision re slavery

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

"We have to keep doing slavery so that at some point in the future we can stop it" is dems current argument for private health insurance, abortion rights, climate change and every conceivable version of political reform.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

George Washington moving his slaves out of Pennsylvania every six months to avoid having to emancipate them after the state ruled enslaved people must be freed after six months of living in the state, and later abusing his presidential powers to start a manhunt for one of his escaped slaves: joker-amerikkklap