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Behind the Bastards

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The Abolitionists and the Civil War in the United States

Lies under spooner was an early anarchist who conspired with john brown various plots and he later became a member of the first in the national. He produced this really early text which is just fantastic it's called a plan for the abolition of slavery published in 1858 so this is a couple years before the civil warHe writes our plan then is to make our war openly or secretly a circumstances may dictate upon the property of the slaveholders burn the master's buildings kill their cattle and horses conceal or destroy farming utensils abandon labor and seed time and harvest and let the crops perish make slavery unprofitable i love the line conceal or destroy it's like you can destroy them you can also

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