Source: The Bulwark
by Corbin K Barthold
“They were gathered again, the lawyers and the judge, at an hour when the courts of a well-ordered society should be still. This country once divided against itself over the fate of fugitive slaves. Those ‘held to service or labour in one state,’ in the Constitution’s shameful euphemism, were to ‘be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.’ Our greatest president gave his life to end the fettered bondsman’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil. Our current president is no emancipator. Indeed, history will count him among the traffickers.” (04/22/25)