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Many Americans Think They Would Have Been Abolitionists In The South Pre-1860. They’re Probably Wrong

Let’s time-travel forward 100 years.

By Brooke Conrad3 min read
1851 Antislavery BostonCommon Gleason wikimedia commons
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, May 1851. Public Domain

It’s 2120. You’re sitting in a college American history class, studying the late 1900s.