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> US Slavery as an institution was gradually on the way out before the civil war. Again a bloodthirsty mass movement was not willing to let time take its course. Slavery is wrong but murder is worse.

Can you link to some places I can read more about this?

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A place to start would be the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Of course this didn’t prevent slaves from being born in the USA nor did it prevent internal slave trade. But there was a non violent movement to end slavery through gradual means, which had already worked in northern states. A good book on Gradualism is “The Scorpions Sting”[1]. To be clear I’m not arguing for an innocent south as that’s not supported by historical documents. I am going to maintain my position that the US population has been bloodthirsty from its founding to the modern day (albeit thankfully less so now than in the past).

[1]https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/The_Scorpion_s_Sting_...

He can have John Brown ... who was one of the very few actually violent abolitionists. Most were pacifists, especially the leadership.

Brown raised an army of, like, 30 men to attack slavery with. Planned partisan war basically, lost pretty quickly.

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