In everything that Trump and MAGA do in the way of pushing back against Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives and asserting White Supremacist values (‘values’) there sound the echoes of the worst-ever Supreme Court decision in US history, the Dred Scott case.
The Causes of the American Civil War defy reason. Slavery was on its way out in 1861 and the importation of new slaves had been ended by 1790. Just what made a predominantly agricultural society challenge a predominantly industrial society over a designation of statehood that was in conflict with the Declaration of Independence? Kier Hardy opposed conscription in WW1 because he saw the British working class being sent to slaughter the German working class, yet both countries put millions of men into the trenches. If the confederacy had won, slavery would eventually have been abolished. Even Brazil abolished slavery in 1890, the last American State to do so. Did 400,000 American men die for no good reason?
This is the first article I have ever read on the Dred Scott decision that has so eloquently demonstrated the destructive effects of that decision and the potential for further destruction to democracy. Great job!
The Causes of the American Civil War defy reason. Slavery was on its way out in 1861 and the importation of new slaves had been ended by 1790. Just what made a predominantly agricultural society challenge a predominantly industrial society over a designation of statehood that was in conflict with the Declaration of Independence? Kier Hardy opposed conscription in WW1 because he saw the British working class being sent to slaughter the German working class, yet both countries put millions of men into the trenches. If the confederacy had won, slavery would eventually have been abolished. Even Brazil abolished slavery in 1890, the last American State to do so. Did 400,000 American men die for no good reason?
This is the first article I have ever read on the Dred Scott decision that has so eloquently demonstrated the destructive effects of that decision and the potential for further destruction to democracy. Great job!
Lucid account. Post Trump US will have to be cleansed from all the moral stains left by Trump and his acolytes. It will take a generation or two.