ABORTION: Here’s the real choice
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April 28, 2024 1:00 AM
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was a book that dramatically changed attitudes toward slavery in the 1850s. It illustrated to Northerners, who had no personal experience with slaves, what it was like to be a slave in the South.
Slave-owners from the beginning had justified the evils of slavery by framing slaves as property rather than as human beings with inherent rights and dignity. Even after the Civil War was won and slavery was abolished, opponents of Emancipation & Reconstruction worked to erode the gains for which many had shed their blood.
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