From the Confederate States Constitution:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed
So Pitts and this White Supremacist idiot are both racist dolts who don’t understand the political underpinnings that led to secession and the Civil War. Yes, slavery was AN issue, but ultimately it was an issue of the southern states attempting to exert their sovereignty as states against increasing federal encroachment.
Let me guess he can’t actually produce this moron.....very convenient when the perfect letter shows up to support your premise. The civil war was partially about slavery but it was mostly about the states right to secede.Lincoln said he could live with slavery if it would preserve the Union.
He picks one damn letter out of who knows how many and makes an issue of it. I want Black people to start growing up and focus on today rather than continually looking at the past.
Is his nickname Stu?
Why didn’t all of the Union states outlaw slavery then?
The same article and message week after week.
Nice work if you can get it.
The 15 states of the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War, including Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.
Actually, “Afro” had nothing to do with it.
I found nothing wrong with the article other than some here on FR won’t like it.
It was an accurate article.
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Yawn, black Americans just can’t get past the fact that America doesn’t view them as slaves anymore and are completely capable of standing on their own two feet.
And the UnAmerican Democrat party doesn’t like it one bit!
For some, slavery was an issue. If you would have asked a typical Union soldier he was fighting to free the slaves, he would of said, Hell no! You would have gotten the similar answer from the typical Confederate soldier if he were asked, Are you fighting to own slaves? The attempt to pain the Union as an army on a moral and spiritual mission is pure fantasy. The reason for going to war was to “save” the Union. Only about 5% of whites owned slaves in the South. The other 95% never owned a slave and lived in worse economic conditions than many slaves. They had no vested interest in slavery, but they wanted to keep their Southern culture.
All you have to do is read the Articles of Secession. They are very clear.
The pressing and motivating force for secession was the right to extend slavery to the western states. Lincoln had conceded to leave slavery untouched in the old south, allowing it to die a natural death, but would not countenance its extension into the new western states. The south saw that if it did not spread they would eventually be outvoted in congress and... it would then be eventually forced out of existence.
So the war was a war over the western states. And had the south seceded without a shot fired, war would eventually have broken out anyway as the north and south competed for western territories.
So, the north fought to preserve the union. The southern soldier fought for his state. And the southern elite fought in their own words to preserve and extend the slave economy, and to give southern culture its own national expression, and to extend both into the unclaimed western territories.
Pitts has always been a racist...with a plantation mentality.
Hmmm, what can you say about someone who cites a white supremacist as an authority?
The interesting thing to me is that the GOP was formed by a few Christians who were fed up with the Whig party’s unwillingness to take a stand on slavery. So they left and formed their own minority party which was explicitly the abolition party.
They were such a minority that they ought to have had no influence at all on national politics. And yet a decade after the birth of the GOP slavery was gone. And the Whigs were disappeared from history.
I have a letter written by an ancestor in 1783 to his cousin in Ireland. He welcomed the reopening of immigration from the British Isles that came with the end of the Revolution, but noted that the new country was fragile and the future uncertain. The big question was the question of slavery and how to end it on terms acceptable to both North and South. He predicted that if a solution could not be found that preserved the economic viability of the South, a war was certain. He was a southern slave holder.
Yet Leonard Pitts is perfectly willing to accept slavery as a necessary condition for 50% of the population—the percentage who pay no tax and receive government assistance to live.
They are the modern day slaves—they rely on subsidies to survive, they are unable to make their own way by their own labor. THIS subclass is perfectly okay in Leonard Pitts’ view.