Check out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rocked
On a skim of the article I didn't see mentioned: he once briefly kidnapped the young son of a slave owner to prove a point about stealing people from their parents. Also he was a pretty decent early feminist. Also he refused to ride horses because they were treated cruelly. And he also didn't eat meat! Dude would've fit in pretty well around here probably.
Quakers seem to have a pretty decent hit rate when it comes to producing decent people.
I love the PUF! I've always wondered wether the slur "poof" came from the PUF. I know that's an odd thing to bring up, but how often do you get to talk about them?
They also had a pretty high hit rate of being the most exploitative and mean factory owners in England which Marx is quite delighted to point out the hypocrisy of. Remember your religion and your professed values don’t make you a good or bad person, your actions do.
Love learning that 'it was a different time' has and was always a deflection of how awful people have been throughout history and that I can and should apply lessons learned in this day and age to the past.
If I manage to have children, I'm going to be a lib teachers nightmare by giving my kids ammo like this, showing that while uncommon, it wasn't unheard of for decent people throughout history to call out the bullshit.
Yep. Always taught this or that was the norm and yada yada yada. Like I get that, but we were never taught anything like this, perhaps out of ignorance because whatever they were taught excluded numerous progressive figures, or imo, didn't want to teach about those who challenge the status quo, unless they're sufficiently whitewashed and defanged.
Multiple founding fathers were abolitionists. IIRC Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Payne were the main advocates against slavery in the constitution (some were even against the 3/5ths compromise).
The debate over the morality stretches back to ancient Greece. Spartans and Athenians would argue over it. We've always known it was wrong, but some people want to own slaves anyway and have to bend over backwards to justify it.