abolitionists often talked about the way that slavery was disabling both of body and mind, and thus used that argument to argue against slavery, and … - Kim E. Nielsen

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abolitionists often talked about the way that slavery was disabling both of body and mind, and thus used that argument to argue against slavery, and saying that African Americans needed to be rescued from slavery. So, you know, both the pros and cons of slavery are the people who were argued against and the people who argued for it used disability to talk about slavery.