• PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
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    5 months ago

    Well, that’s mostly a look at the modern effects of slave patrols and descendants of the practice, but yes. Slave patrols were notable in that they included mostly non-slave owning white volunteers. It really shows just how deep the rot went. Slavery wasn’t ‘incidental’ to the Antebellum South’s existence as a society, it was the Antebellum South.