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    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It 100% would’ve happened anyway, but Harper’s Ferry was the fire under the southern aristocracy’s ass to go through with it because suddenly there was a very real example of a northerner actively instigating mass slave rebellions to destroy their way of life. Had it not happened, the civil war might not have occurred for another decade or two instead of within five years.