Chapter One
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The political idealism of the Revolution also encouraged, and sometimes forced, white slave owners to liberate their slaves.
— Allen C. Guelzo
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Allen C. Guelzo" (Quotes, 2010s, Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012): Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction (2012))
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