Originally Posted by OccultHawk

He’s not disrespecting Tubman. He’s shining a light on a racist falsehood of the American mythology that blacks were “free” outside the south.

Many people who lived outside the slave states were in favor of simply killing every black person in America to solve the problem of white southerners having the economic advantage of free labor. Besides serious abolitionists most white people were only concerned with rich plantation owners eating up too much of the pie.