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Timothy Sandefur on Frederick Douglass

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The Mises Institute's Nonsensical Perspective on the Civil War

The only politician in 1860s America who sought to eliminate slavery peacefully was Abraham Lincoln. So there is no principled libertarian perspective that can possibly side with the south in the Civil War, he says. For more on this subject, check out my blog and particularly check out my article, How Libertarians Got to Think About the US Civil War about 20 years ago.

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