[whateveracct]

society literally had to break down for years in order for us to add rules against it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War

[charcircuit]

Before the Civil War the majority of states had already banned the practice. It had to break down in order to be able to jam in an amendment to the constitution against it. States were already in the process of banning it themselves.

[whateveracct]

but were they _all_ doing it?