PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-25 months agoDaguerreotype of American anti-slavery militant John Brown, 1846-1847lemmy.worldimagemessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up10
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minus-squarecallouscomic@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYet our record bloodshed in the Civil War soon to come still wouldn’t be enough to completely remove it all. Sure slavery was abolished, but things were still horrible for so many reasons for the following 100 years, and somewhat still are today.
minus-squarePugJesus@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI blame Reconstruction ending too soon, honestly.
Yet our record bloodshed in the Civil War soon to come still wouldn’t be enough to completely remove it all. Sure slavery was abolished, but things were still horrible for so many reasons for the following 100 years, and somewhat still are today.
I blame Reconstruction ending too soon, honestly.