Posted on 04/27/2013 3:45:10 AM PDT by daniel1212
Why aren’t the black race baiters pissed at England and happy with the USA for ending slavery?
Why aren’t they pissed at the nations in Africa and the Middle East who still practice slavery?
“The United States of America didn’t invent slavery, nor did we introduce it to the shores of America.
When the Nation was founded and the Constitution written, the founders had to deal with the reality that half of the Country used slave labor and would have fought with England if they couldn’t continue to do so.
There would have been no United States of America because much of the money and military talent came from Virginia...a slave state.”
Thank you for making that point! Thomas Jefferson addressed this and would have liked to end slavery, but fact is the revolution could have never succeeded if they had taken on doing away with slaves at the same time. Heck, we haven’t solved the problems of emancipation yet.
In a prophetic letter decades earlier ,
President Thomas Jefferson expressed
the fears of many of his contemporaries over conflicts
of states’ rights, westward settlement, federalism and slavery.
“This momentous question,
like a fire bell in the night,
awakened and filled one with terror,
I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
It is hushed indeed for the moment.
but this is a reprieve only,
not a final sentence . . .
we have the wolf by the ears
and we can neither hold him
nor safely let him go.”
Largely yes, many as product of antiChrist secular seminaries (universities) poisoning the well with a victim-entitlement ideology from Hell.
Interestingly, TJ’s letter expresses his opinion that attempts to restrict slavery appear to be the problem leading to future civil war, not slavery itself. Let slavery spread indefinitely and it will end more quickly.
This is, of course, the exact opposite of the later consensus on both sides of the issue that preventing slavery from expanding would eventually kill it.
But even in this letter he states that slavery is an evil, quite different from the later conventional wisdom of the South that slavery was a positive good.
Yes. She's starting out from where she is now and trying to figure out how the war affected the way we live today. I'm pretty sure we would have gotten hospitals and ambulances somehow by now, civil war or no Civil War, but it's not bad to be reminded of the historical connections.
People are certainly free to disagree with her. She may be wrong or naive, but it is "history from the bottom up" (not in a Marxist way, though) and a bit fresher than the standard line about how we freed the slaves and all became slaves that gets regurgitated over and over again.
Are you sure those are the bodies of Union soldiers? I was told that nearly all the photos you will see of bodies on Civil War battlefields are of Confederate dead.
Try reading this: The Three United States
This is the Supreme Courts interpretation
http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/htm/chapter4.htm
This whole site is extremely informative:
http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm
I was born and raised in Lynchburg....got married, and my husband brought me down here to the country. Love it, although the population is growing by leaps and bounds now.
We’re just a wide place in the road, but we won’t be that for long.
My Mother’s family was scattered all over Appomattox and Buckingham counties. We moved from Baltimore and my folks built a house in Vera in 1961. I graduated from Appomattox High School in 1969. I was accepted at Virginia Tech, but was holding back waiting on an appointment to USAFA. My physical for USAFA was at Fort Lee. Funny, but AFROTC wouldn’t accept the USAFA physical from Fort Lee (Army?), so I had to retake it at Langley, AFB a few weeks later. When I got to USAFA, they had lost my records and I had to retake the physical again. My parents passed away in ‘78 and ‘89. We still have 68 acres of land there. I was railroaded out of the Academy after 2 years by a AOC who had to get rid of 5 of our group. I ended up working for large contractors in DOE and DOD, and still get invited back to Academy reunions (one coming up in September).
Yep. I’ve lived in Altavista and Lynchburg. Used to cut through Concord and Rustburg to get to Altavista from Appomattox. I worked in tobacco fields when I was in High School. Harvesting dark leaf was backbreaking work, but got us out of school a few weeks.
They have one of the best book stores I’ve ever been in.
When the nation was founded, ALL of the states were slave-owning states. Laws were passed in 1804-1805 calling for a gradual end to slavery, but they didn't result in a wholesale end to bondage above the Mason-Dixon line; in many northern states, there were still slaves to be found on the census records nearly up until the Civil War.
New York abolished the practice in 1827; Rhode Island in 1840; Pennsylvania in 1847; Connecticut in 1848; New Hampshire in 1857; and New Jersey didn't make it official until the state ratified the 13th amendment in 1866, having rejected it in 1865.
Before the war: “The united States are”. After the war: “The United States is”. States rights went to Hell. The Feral Government took over.
Your presidential standards must be really, really low.
That is such a bullshit answer.
Slavery then was bad. Slavery today is bad.
A truth is always true.
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Grimes co. Greys
http://confederateheritagemonth.com/heritage/2008/texas/grimes_county.php
A couple of times a year I travel south through Gettysburg, PA, Concord and Appomattox. VA.
Usually stay overnight near Appomattox.
Sometimes visit if time permits.
That trip always gives me pause to think about the Civil War, and descendants from both sides who post here on Free Republic.
Your presidential standards must be really, really low.
Well, if he was referring to the CSA, he's correct. Jeff Davis was the best, worst, tallest, shortest, and ugliest President they ever had.
Before long, I imagine there won’t be any tobacco fields left in Virginia.
What a small world it is.
Yes. It often gets fought all over again, right here, LOL. Oh, well...we’re all Freepers in the end.
My little village is known by more folks than I thought.
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