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How much of the American pre-Civil War abolitionist movement was actually inspired on ideas of complete (or at least relative) equality between whites and blacks? How much of it was about the Jeffersonian ideal of free, white yeomans settling the West without competition from slave-holders?

by /u/Mexi_dude in /r/AskHistorians

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