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“Grand Old Partisan” blogger Michael Zak has been tilting at windmills for some time now promoting the Republicans abolished slavery meme. He’s right, of course. Today he marks the liberation of slaves in Washington, DC, under Republican sponsored Congressional legislation in a post named “Republicans passed the DC Emancipation Act.”
Technically it was Republicans … but they were also the progressives and liberals of their day (in addition to a healthy streak of libertarianism). The Republicans of the mid-1800s wanted America to progress past slavery by liberating the slaves. Mr. Zak apparently prefers to use the Windows Help Function for political definitions — it’s technically accurate, but doesn’t actually help clarify much.
