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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4840241" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>No, as time went on and inventions like the cotton gin came around more and more people raised objections to slavery because they felt with the machines it could no longer be justified.  This was a long wrought out process.  People in 1760 weren't objecting to it like they were in 1860.  And even Lincoln had to be convinced to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.  He even debated noted black speaker Stephen Douglas over it.  And again, except for abolitionists like John Brown the country wasn't in riots over it the way we saw riots last summer.  And John Brown wasn't anything like Antifa.  He was devoutly Christian.</p></blockquote><p></p>