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Flat White

Abortion and the Deep South

14 September 2018

8:51 AM

14 September 2018

8:51 AM

In one of the many forgotten decisive moments in the history of the United States of America, the question of the expansion of slavery was being debated. The one in favour of expansion asked why if he could take his animals anywhere then why not his slave?  The one against – Abraham Lincoln – argued that this denied the ‘humanity’ of the slave and was contrary to ‘human sympathies’ and the principles of democratic government.

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