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also this quote from an actual principled anti-slavery person:

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

  • John Brown
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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

There is no reason to believe he was a prophet seeing 250 years into the future of the nation he helped create ...

its seems more like he was responding to a nation that was already created and the black panthers would prove that he was right about 100+ years later.