re: #162 A hollow voice says, Beware the strongman con
Which is significantly different from “the constitution was written by white slaveholders.” I remain sick and tired by one-sentence “summaries” of history. My routine for brushing my teeth would take longer than that to explain.
Well, I don’t even get why you think there wouldn’t have been a Civil War. The abolitionists formed after the constitution, and were duly elected. A lot of them would have gotten elected in the same states, and would have pushed for abolition just the same.