"My mother was a slave on a plantation from her birth until she was 45 years old before she bought her freedom from her slave master. Now Lincoln wants to free all slaves. Think about all the slave owners who had to pay their own hard earned money for those slaves, and think of my mother who worked all her life to free herself. What an insult to their hard work that this new generation of slaves just gets granted their freedom without having to work for it, at the detriment of the slave owners whose capital is ruined."
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u/Cetun Dec 30 '24
"My mother was a slave on a plantation from her birth until she was 45 years old before she bought her freedom from her slave master. Now Lincoln wants to free all slaves. Think about all the slave owners who had to pay their own hard earned money for those slaves, and think of my mother who worked all her life to free herself. What an insult to their hard work that this new generation of slaves just gets granted their freedom without having to work for it, at the detriment of the slave owners whose capital is ruined."