Ida Bae Wells

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@compoccia The North mostly did not want the expansion of slavery, true, but not necessarily for the altruistic reasons you'd like to believe. They wanted the West open to free WHITE settlers, did not want to sully it with Black people nor slavery. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 26, 2023

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@compoccia We've all been woefully miseducated, and particularly about the abolitionist and racially egalitarian North. It largely didn't exist. A good primer is this by historian Thomas Sugrue. https://t.co/OYLAuij341 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 26, 2023

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones

@compoccia And white Northerns were especially worried about the disproportionate power wielded by the slaveholding states. See "The Slave Power." — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 26, 2023