I think the idea that the militias were to put down slave revolts is myopic. The biggest threat to the nascent US wasn't slave revolts, but those could happen, so they were on the list of things the militia would respond to. Hyperfocusing on this one line in the list is agenda-driven.
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"Militia", what that meant then.
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