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Originally Posted by craigimass
It's not my job to educate you as to history....
rather, perhaps you should tell me what William Garrison voted on to cause slavery to be abolished?
Answer: not a single thing, yet he is perhaps the man most credited for the abolition of that peculiar institution...
Only pols introduce legislation, and according to you they are all corrupt and terrible, so therefore it is catch-22, right? You were trying to trick me again.
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You trick yourself often and easily enough, without recourse to my aid.
As to educating me on history, I suppose I must admit to some human fallibility in that regard and acknowledge that the name of Mr. Garrison, a newspaper editor and publisher did not immediately leap to mind when considering the abolition of slavery in the US. For some odd reason, the name Abraham Lincoln came first to my feeble mind, second in the credit department I, of course, thought of the Army of the Potomac, and then I thought of U.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. But then my mind turns to the 17th of September in 1862, the bloodiest day in American history, when 23,000 young American men bled the ground red at Antietam towards the end of that institution. As I contemplate those losses, I think hardly at all of Mr. Garrison safe in Boston.
And this would not be the first time it has come to my attention of your preference for the talker, even the gadfly, over the men whom actually change the course of human events.
What, they just discussed the abolition movement in remedial history during summer school perhaps?