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@WilliamHogeland I was about to say, Wilentz is engaging in some serious cherrypicking in that response, taking the actions and rhetoric of a few and extending it across an entire political class—ironically performing what he criticizes)—and in another example of the same... — PolitiTweet.org

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@WilliamHogeland He puts a ton of weight on the casual antislavery of some founders put neglects to mention that whatever their antislavery beliefs they did not see antislavery as a moral principle on par with cementing the union, and were perfectly willing to maintain the slavery status quo. — PolitiTweet.org