![]() ![]() These two possibilities worried southerners like James Monroe, George Mason (who owned more than 300 slaves), and the southern Christian evangelical Patrick Henry (the largest slaveholder in the state of Virginia). And, similarly, if the North were to invite into military service the slaves of the South, then they could be emancipated, which would collapse the institution of slavery-and the southern economic and social systems-altogether. ![]() If the antislavery folks in the North could figure out a way to disband those southern militias-or even just to move the militias out of the states-the police state of the South would collapse. ![]()
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