Radical Republicans Then and Now

Before the Civil War Radical Republicans were against the systematic rape and breeding of black slaves, anything that looked like Christian family values denied them – along with voter’s rights. Imagine being a fifteen year old black slave who has just been raped by your white master, or the male slave he chose for you to breed with in order to produce a stronger worker. Would you want to abort that baby who will be born a slave – and nearly worked to death? Would your master punish you for even considering not being pro-life? If other black mothers conspired to abort their babies would their slave master try to make this conspiracy against State Law, it now an act of treason to not want to give birth to slaves that the economy of the south depends upon?

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