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    1. 1. Yesterday @KatiePavlich said that the US doesn’t get enough “credit” for abolishing slavery when it did. Ironically, the abolitionists who helped to bring that outcome about often used shame for country to mobilize support. theatlantic.com/amp/article/277537/
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    2. Abolitionists like Garrison and Frederick Douglass often pointed to the fact that the democratic US lagged behind its monarchical “mother country” in emancipating slaves.
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      3. As I show in my first book, abolitionists also credited US democracy for a great deal, which only highlighted its hypocrisy on slavery; they were patriots who believed that shame for country and love of country were compatible.
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        4. So when someone like @ewarren calls slavery a “stain” on the country, she is actually closer to the abolitionists’ view than someone who thinks those abolitionists and their country deserve more praise.
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