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Important reminder in this chapter that the Union soldiers were, alas, also really fucking racist, but after 90-odd pages of describing the antebellum South as what I will charitably call the most shit-headed and small-minded society imaginable the Yanks still come off as philosopher-kings in comparison
— Jul 07, 2026 03:47PM
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Connor Rooke
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I had completely forgotten, or possibly never even known, just how much of the tension leading up the American Civil War was due to the slave states fearing, not that slavery would be abolished in existing states, but that it wouldn't be allowed in new ones, or that new states would vote on whether they wanted it, or even that the new states wouldn't be pro-slavery ENOUGH. Bonkers shit.
— Jun 29, 2026 04:09PM
