• Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pretty fuckin’ stupid for that video to say that the US began the conversation on ending slavery when the Haitian revolution began in 1802.

    You know, among all of the other fuckin’ stupid things in that video.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It was famously already a well established argument by the time of the drafting of the US constitution. The southern states were deathly afraid their ability to keep slaves would be taken away, which was basically the entire driving motivation behind almost everything they did.