I mean white people could have done more after freeing enslaved people but ... yeah. Most insidious part of slavery/racism in the US is how entrenched the dynamics are in our own heads. It takes a lot of work to break out of that and if you don't have a lot of good visible examples then you can easily get stuck in it.
from an idealistic, liberal mindset this makes a lot of sense. obviously the actual good idea would've been giving former enslaved people property and other material means to have a dignified life, education, etc.
This is one step away from "slavery is actually good for us because we don't know how to run our lives without kind master".
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that's pathetic and sad
I mean white people could have done more after freeing enslaved people but ... yeah. Most insidious part of slavery/racism in the US is how entrenched the dynamics are in our own heads. It takes a lot of work to break out of that and if you don't have a lot of good visible examples then you can easily get stuck in it.
they should read Eric Foner's Reconstruction or watch Matt's series of videos discussing it
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The only helpful instructions would have been: “take this free land you deserve.”
from an idealistic, liberal mindset this makes a lot of sense. obviously the actual good idea would've been giving former enslaved people property and other material means to have a dignified life, education, etc.
Literally what Jim Crow was for.
Just a legion of plantation owners screaming "Get back in line!"