Why did he take such a pussy stance against the slaveholding traitors?
Because deep down he knew they were right.
>>1837524
Because his goal was to keep the country united, and dealing with your subjects harshly leads to rebellion.
>>1837556
Occupation, imprisonment, and the redistribution of property would have destroyed any chance of rebellion.
>>1837524
Because he country was founded by slaveholding traitors
>>1837842
Go to bed Foner
>>1837851
Southern planters were greatly outnumbered among the revolutionary conspirators by Northern bourgeois.
>>1837873
You realize that northerners were slave owners too during the revolution? 40% of New Yorker's owned slaves.