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In reply to the discussion: The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)44. Vermont?!? PA?!? Go back to history class, you must've slept through it.
I know, you have to be internally consistent to agree with the OP, but to assume that Pennsylvania wanted slaves, or that Vermont didn't at the same time outlaw slavery- is downright silly.
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So why did states like Vermont and Pennsylvania pass their own version of the same?
X_Digger
Feb 2018
#3
I can tell you why they have them now, they are white wing organizations that use guns to
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#9
Maybe there were still some native Americans that had not been murdered
ThoughtCriminal
Feb 2018
#22