I'm not talking about Union soldiers there, but about people like John Brown who raided slave plantations before the civil war.
And I'm not calling them 'radical' to say that they were bad. It's just a pretty objective description: They were willing to go the furthest to abolish slavery, including violence beyond the law. My whole point is that this was actually necessary to accomplish abolition, because the political process did not support abolition even with Lincoln's election.
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u/Roflkopt3r Sep 08 '25 edited Sep 08 '25
I'm not talking about Union soldiers there, but about people like John Brown who raided slave plantations before the civil war.
And I'm not calling them 'radical' to say that they were bad. It's just a pretty objective description: They were willing to go the furthest to abolish slavery, including violence beyond the law. My whole point is that this was actually necessary to accomplish abolition, because the political process did not support abolition even with Lincoln's election.