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Part One: The Civil War Within the Civil War: How the South Won the War for the Union

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The History of Boston

In 1854, you have a guy named Anthony Burns who also decided to fuck off from slavery and he gets smuggled up to Boston. And as he's been like marched out of town, 50,000 people in Boston come out to aggressively protest his capture. So this change is Boston overnight. And then that's how they pass all these laws, making it harder to come and capture people. But just in case people try it anyway, you have the anti man hunting league that starts out. Yes. And then burns himself. The abolitionists raise up enough money to buy him his freedom. He becomes a minister. Because it was the fucking 19th century, he dies of tuberculosis,. Like

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