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When there are slavers to shoot, we all can have a little American pride - as a treat (media.kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not even getting into the fact that those who didn't own slaves often engaged in the broader practice of the (ab)use of slaves and aspired to own slaves, and were quite openly fighting to perpetuate and expand slavery.

Slave Patrols: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing

Just letting people know what you’re taking about

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well, that's mostly a look at the modern effects of slave patrols and descendants of the practice, but yes. Slave patrols were notable in that they included mostly non-slave owning white volunteers. It really shows just how deep the rot went. Slavery wasn't 'incidental' to the Antebellum South's existence as a society, it was the Antebellum South.