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[Rev. Rye]

It's not the same government. The government responsible for slavery in America is the British government, as we were British colonies when slavery was instituted. The colonies didn't abolish slavery when they instituted their own government, which was stupid, but it took less than a lifetime to do so.

It's a long one, of course. 91 years to be exact; in fact, during the deliberations over the Declaration of Independence, John Adams said "Mark me, Franklin. If we give in on this issue, there will be trouble one hundred years hence. Posterity will never forgive us.” Of course, I would point out that the biggest groups keeping slavery alive were the Southern states who wanted to keep their cash cow rolling and knew they needed slavery to keep it so. The Three-fifths compromise that meant a slave only counted as 60% of a person? It came about because the South wanted to count their slaves as part of the population specifically so they could wield a disproportionate amount power. The North didn't want them counted because they didn't get a vote anyway. Eventually they settled on three-fifths and the South still got what it wanted. And while I can't speak for all the bullshit between 1865 and 1965, FDR blocked anti-lynching legislation specifically to appease the Southern states, whose farmers were necessary for the New Deal.

Honestly, I suspect Capitalism is as much a problem as a specific body of government.