Liberty Chronicles, Ep. 83: Who Killed Jefferson(ianism)?

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Channel: Libertarianism.org · 2018 · News & Politics

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Southerners strived to protect slavery as thoroughly as possible. In order to do that, they embraced a pragmatic ideology tailored to fight their Northern opposition. To many Southerners, slavery represented comfort, but others embraced slavery as their Christian duty to save Africans from the drudgeries of freedom and supposedly meek lives of Northern industrial workers. 

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