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BaronChocula

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12. Can you please explain

Reply to Quixote1818 (Reply #2)

Wed Aug 23, 2017, 03:46 AM

Aug 2017

How the FFs began chipping away at slavery? There were those who opposed and those who were for. In Virginia, Ground Zero in the Washington VS Lee question, pro-slavery laws intensified in the first decade of the 19th century, putting onerous regulations on steps to manumission. Freed slaves in Virginia were required to leave the state. Even anti-slavery FFs like John Adams were no necessarily pro-abolition.

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Were George Washington and Robert E. Lee really that different? [View all] BaronChocula Aug 2017 OP

Thought provoking. Xipe Totec Aug 2017 #1

I agree, the Founding Fathers were the first to start chipping away at slavery Quixote1818 Aug 2017 #2

Can you please explain BaronChocula Aug 2017 #12

But what suggests Washington would have been any different BaronChocula Aug 2017 #11

If we're going into hypotheticals, Xipe Totec Aug 2017 #14

In my humble opinion BaronChocula Aug 2017 #13

very simple recovering_democrat Aug 2017 #3

More questions? You didn't answer the first one. BaronChocula Aug 2017 #15

This is the United States. Robert E. Lee sent soldiers to war to fight against and kill Americans... George II Aug 2017 #4

Exactly . . . markpkessinger Aug 2017 #8

Had the Americans lost the Revolutionary War rpannier Aug 2017 #9

From a military standpoint... renegade000 Aug 2017 #5

Southern aristocrats and their peculiar institution bucolic_frolic Aug 2017 #6

You can make the case with Hillary and Donald BaronChocula Aug 2017 #10

There were many reasons for the break with England. They filled an entire document TeamPooka Aug 2017 #7

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