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This isn’t even true. It’s when enslaved people (after the civil war) in Texas finally got he news that they were free. In some remote parts of America, slavery continued into the 1900s
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Anonymous 13w

Slavery still continues today.

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Anonymous 13w

We did have a republican president at the time. So I guess they think it was republicans bc that’s what they voted for.

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Anonymous 13w

Oh shit do you have a source behind that last part? That sounds interesting and terrible to read about.

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Anonymous 13w

^it does and that’s heartbreaking

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Anonymous 13w

Abe Lincoln was the president at the time. Who was republican

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

Read slavery by another name by Douglas blackmon

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