Jeff Clark

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Jeff Clark @JeffClarkUS

2/4 Antislavery had achieved at least minority support among the American colonies’ thought leaders long before the Declaration of Independence and the Boston Party in 1773. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 29, 2022

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1/4 In Somersett’s case (1772), Lord Mansfield, the great English jurist, set in motion the demise of slavery in the English-speaking world, saying “[slavery] is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.” And there was no such legislation in England — PolitiTweet.org

“Most of those who supported both of the three-fifths clauses were opposed to slavery, and most believed that antis… https://t.co/tr0QucktOP

Posted Sept. 29, 2022

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3/4 DeSantis is a great Gov but Declaration wasn’t the entirety of everything that was going on in 1776, though it did fuel later generations of abolitionists and Lincoln ending slavery in the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 29, 2022