They’re just pretending to have hated slavery all along. The South fought for slavery but the North didn’t fight against it. The North fought because they wanted to “preserve the Union”. They didn’t really care about slavery, or black people.
The fact that in 2024 anyone at all can look at the American Civil War and be like “um Akshully it’s really the North’s fault! It was about our heritage!” is pathetic. And racist.
So the North invaded the south to, literally, stop slavery, stop the south from breaking away from the United States to become a slaver state because the USA wanted to abolish slavery, and your response is that “well the North wasn’t woke enough, and means all the southern racists and slavers got a bad rap.”
And your source for that is? Abolitionists were inherently secretive, due to the nature of their work freeing slaves. It’s impossible to know their exact numbers, as no one would admit to it even after the war.
So any source you might find is just guessing as to their numbers.
Abolitionists were inherently secretive, due to the nature of their work freeing slaves
You seem to be confusing the abolitionist movement, which involved public meetings and newspapers, with the “conductors” of the underground railroad, who were mostly free African-Americans who risked being enslaved by slave catchers (even if they had never been enslaved in their lives.)
DuBois also described Northern Liberals like this:
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/408/pg408-images.html
They’re just pretending to have hated slavery all along. The South fought for slavery but the North didn’t fight against it. The North fought because they wanted to “preserve the Union”. They didn’t really care about slavery, or black people.
The fact that in 2024 anyone at all can look at the American Civil War and be like “um Akshully it’s really the North’s fault! It was about our heritage!” is pathetic. And racist.
So the North invaded the south to, literally, stop slavery, stop the south from breaking away from the United States to become a slaver state because the USA wanted to abolish slavery, and your response is that “well the North wasn’t woke enough, and means all the southern racists and slavers got a bad rap.”
Get your head examined.
Who fired the first shots?
South Carolina
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Sumter
You do realize that the abolitionist movement was a huge part of the Union war effort?
And your source for that is? Abolitionists were inherently secretive, due to the nature of their work freeing slaves. It’s impossible to know their exact numbers, as no one would admit to it even after the war.
So any source you might find is just guessing as to their numbers.
You seem to be confusing the abolitionist movement, which involved public meetings and newspapers, with the “conductors” of the underground railroad, who were mostly free African-Americans who risked being enslaved by slave catchers (even if they had never been enslaved in their lives.)
They were the same people. And no, I meant the white abolitionists. They lived publicly in the North and South, but didn’t reveal their identities.
https://www.historynet.com/how-many-abolitionists-were-there/
John Brown and Bleeding Kansas have entered the chat…