No, the lynchings were of criminals.
"Deacon Jim" Miller (far left in photo) may have murdered Pat Garrett in a paid hit, he was later lynched in Oklahoma for a different murder.
Dinesh Dsouza’s last movie actually went into some detail about the black slave ownership across the south. One of them he focused on was a slave breeder which was not very acceptable at the time.
I remind my children that while slavery was wrong, it was a normal part of almost every society around the world in some form at the time. Slavery in America came well before the founding fathers and many of the founders wanted it abolished. America wasn’t alone by any stretch. There were also state laws that made it difficult and costly to free slaves even if one wanted to. We used the constitution as a wedge to undermine slavery and finally, 300,000 white men died in battle to free the slaves.
In addition, there were about 4000 lynching’s in the US from the 1800’s through 1968 and about 1/3 of those victims were white people helping blacks!
When liberals talk about how evil America is, I would love to know what country on this planet has an unblemished past!
Funny. 300,000 white men died to free the slaves, led by a commanding General who was forced by law to free his slaves, long after the opposing General surrendered (who incidentally personally opposed slavery)? You’ve been duped. General Grant was a slave owner well after he “freed” all the southern slaves. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation deliberately freed ONLY southern slaves.
The civil war was not about slavery. It was about economic advantage. “Slavery” was an excuse used by some to get low information citizens to support a disastrous war.
Not quite right.
About 1/3 of all victims of lynchings were white, but the vast majority of those were killed for more or less the same reason blacks were. Most of them were probably guilty of horrible crimes and would have been executed if they had been tried.
Not a fan of lynching, but the majority of those murdered in this way probably did deserve to the executed, though they certainly should have had a fair trial first.
One of them he focused on was a slave breeder which was not very acceptable at the time.
Slave breeding, as such, was not a viable business proposition. Too long a lead time. It was, however, a highly profitable side business to the labor you got out of black females. Northern slave states, especially Virginia, made a great deal of money out of selling south their excess slaves. VA could to some extent be called a slave-breeding state for much of the 19th century.
They pretended otherwise, because as you mention it wasn't considered quite the thing.
I think the relevant issue is not that Anglo-American civilization had slaves for a long time. It's that we finally ended it, at enormous cost to ourselves, and then fanned out around the world and forced other societies to also end it, at least in theory.
ISIS is I believe the only "nation" in which slavery is presently legal.
No, the lynchings were of criminals.
"Deacon Jim" Miller (far left in photo) may have murdered Pat Garrett in a paid hit, he was later lynched in Oklahoma for a different murder.