Most people do that. I'm the guy who's writing a deconstruction of that kind of story where the modern day Tumblr Social Justice types go back to the past to uplift the past to modern Civil Rights standards. It starts going badly the first time they meet slaves and slaves see them as just another bunch of white people more intent on telling them what they needed than they understood about what they needed.
That being said, there *were* people at the time who did object to slavery, and went so far as to abolish it in the North. So this line of argument can only go so far.
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Date: 31/3/13 02:38 (UTC)That being said, there *were* people at the time who did object to slavery, and went so far as to abolish it in the North. So this line of argument can only go so far.