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  @9CJ6CB6 from Virginia commented…1mo1MO

For starters, when I say the government was coerced and abolished slavery for self-preservation, rioting of slaves was one of many factors, and I’m not saying their government was a homogeneous entity. They had a lot of internal discourse in a one-party majority state. The Whigs were a minority for a while beforehand, and the Tories did require public pressure to create the necessary push for anti-slavery policy. The Tories needing that pressure was how I mean it when I say their government required coercion and did it out of self-preservation, because the Tories would be entirely voted…  Read more

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