There’s a town called Huguenot on Staten Island!!
has to be named after them!
Interesting story.
We weren’t here for the civil war. There was no reason to fight it. If the south had had the same numbers, they would have clocked the north, which also forced Irish to fight right off the boat.
Slavery would have eventually disappeared without 600,000!!! men dying.
My Huguenot folks’ names were “Maupin”, originally a
French name. It was shameful what was done to the
Huguenots; many of them were murdered just because
they weren’t Catholic. I don’t hate anybody; but I could
never be a Catholic - just too much in my past that leaves
a mark. Distant past for sure. - Slavery was on the way
out before long; and while blacks might have had to
sharecrop like a lot of the rest of us, they would have
been more likely to have walked away from that dynamic with
a bit of dignity. There’s something about having to do it
yourself that tends to foster dignity. LBJ invented “The
Great Society” in a cynical bid for the Democrats to “own”
the black vote forever. . which they apparently now do.
The Civil War left so many dead (the land was marred by
dead bodies for longer than many people realize). The
invention of the cotton gin was a big help in the
industry. Now, the cotton pickers are machines. - The
human condition really reeks & the ambition of some men
for power over people is demonic. - I’m in my 70th year &
on my way out of this mortal coil sooner rather than
later. Mankind has ruled himself and scored an F-minus!
So, I say “MARANATHA!” - the sooner the better!