• melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    it was. it got us the nazis. letting a single confederate officer (who wasn’t a double agent or something) avoid the noose was such a huge mistake. not dispossessing everyone who claimed to own another human completely was also a mistake.

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      Exactly. The government should have seized the land of every plantation owner that made a living from slave labor, and distributed it to former slaves as reparations.

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        every fucking inch, and a bag of each of their blood too, just for the symbolism. or filtered them through that loophole in the 13th amendment for a decade or so, men women and children.