On the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it's worth recalling that slavery was made unsustainable largely through the efforts of those who were enslaved. The record is replete with enslaved blacks -- even so-called house slaves -- who poisoned slaveholders, destroyed crops, "accidentally" burned down buildings.
"What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right"
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