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FiddleHodlHomestead · 1w

Chattel slavery is an example of the owning class being stopped by the collective working class?

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The abolishment of slavery was an example of a democratic governing body helping those who were being exploited for profit.

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FiddleHodlHomestead · 5d

You mean the abolishment in the US? I'm pretty sure that Lincoln specifically ran on a platform of not interfering with slavery in the southern states. He opposed it in the new territories, which aligned with the interests of the industrialists that supported him. Those industrialists were doing the...