Patrick Rael

Slavery, abolition, and emancipation. Board games and the representation of the past. Still suspect there’s a pony in there somewhere....

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@EchoesofWarYT No one cares about your feelings. If you’re ashamed of your traitorous hero, that’s your business.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@LordProHegseth @SupremeDeism not as a consequence of emancipation

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@LordProHegseth @SupremeDeism i was with you until this nonsense

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@LordProHegseth @SupremeDeism no chance. in what other post-emancipation society did such a working-class alliance lead to a 'communist' revolution? or even come close.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@SupremeDeism yep, UK quickly shifted cotton supply from Egypt and India

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@Liberty_Xtreme what an absurd argument. so the CW wasn't about slavery, even though those who led secession said it was.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@JonFMJ @Liberty_Xtreme i know i've won when the toddlers abandon all attempts at argument and start flinging poo

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@JonFMJ @Liberty_Xtreme Maryland wasn't ignored; slavery ended there in 1865.
And neither would that make the CW not about slavery. Learn more.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@dixie_cavalier so coercion and violence are bad, got it.
what was slavery??

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@ryanswalters73 You have claimed that ‘everyone’ understood and agreed with Ames. That is obviously not the case.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@ryanswalters73 Madison, Federalist 45: Constitution as a compact made by the "people of the United States" in their aggregate capacity, not a treaty between independent and sovereign state governments.

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@ryanswalters73 "there cannot be two sovereign powers on the same subject".

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@ryanswalters73 James Wilson, 1787: “His position is, that the supreme power resides in the States, as governments; and mine is, that it resides in the PEOPLE, as the fountain of government.”

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@hsakotc11 Bottom line: the CSA never systematically traded slaves liberty for service. Now, why does it matter? The CSA was still about defending slavery — THAT’S WHY THEY DIDN’T FREE THEM.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@hsakotc11 Then you should know how this debate runs. If you’re surprised that 3/65 is the last month of the war, so the provision never had effect, you might need to bone up.

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@hsakotc11 lol this just shows you don’t really know anything about the debate. What historians have you read on this?

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@hsakotc11 Who cares what he thought. He betrayed his country and did more than anyone else to defend slavery.

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@hsakotc11 Dude this is from MARCH 1865. When did Lee surrender?

[Patrick Rael @LudicaBlog]

@ManifestHistory @jebsmith764 not good history. the North was overwhelmingly agrarian even after the start of industrialization in *some* parts of the region in the 1820s. do better.