Given the part of family I consider my primary heritage wasn’t even in the US until half way through the century, I’d say: didn’t apply, probably given the sentiment among that demographic, fought for the fucking Union, and doesn’t matter; slavery illegal.

This question can only ever apply to those people whose family were in the US before 1863, which I’m guessing is a minority of the country. Even among my family that got here in 1846, they were a pretty insular community that tended to only marry and interact with people that went to their church until the early-mid 1900s, none of which owned slaves and came from a country where it was already outlawed. Saying a person would’ve been ostracized for being opposing slavery assumes the prof knows about the community they come from and the students’ family history. To quote the ctrl-left, “that’s ignorant”

Given the part of family I consider my primary heritage wasn’t even in the US until half way through the century, I’d say: didn’t apply, probably given the sentiment among that demographic, fought for the fucking Union, and doesn’t matter; slavery illegal.

This question can only ever apply to those people whose family were in the US before 1863, which I’m guessing is a minority of the country.