Appreciate the input. Interesting to read the perspective of a Northerner. Not being sarcastic. Good debate.
So that it is clear, slavery was repugnant. The U.S. has done more in our own country to right the wrong of this era than any country around the world to this day. Yet there is still this victim mentality among blacks today. Victimhood fomented by guilty white liberals and perpetuated by hapless keystone republicans.
Say what you will, it was the African native that enslaved and sold their own countrymen. It was the spoils of tribal conflict. Conquer rival tribes, take their possessions, choice woman, children, animals and the rest went up for barter/sale.
Northern states enjoyed slavery for many years as well, so not all hands are clean in this regard. To some extent, the policy of recolonization was bred from thoughts of superiority to the black man by those who supported the ideology. The ideology held by Lincoln and President Grant among many others.
As to the start of the civil war, the broader point I make is the federals were back then and are now doing what they do, controlling every single aspect of a citizen’s life.
Southerners had endured the heavy hand of the federals and they’d had had enough.
States’ rights were being trampled. Over taxation and regulation. The federal government’s attempts to thwart the Southern states from trading with European countries for farm needs led to angst in Southerners.
Again, the overwhelming majority of Southerners did not own or hold slaves. They were fighting for their way of life against federal overreach and yes, slave labor was part of that. Many were farming and needed labor to keep these operations going...incidentally agriculture to help feed/cloth the nation.
And so here we are. 160 years later still dealing with federal overreach, over taxation, monumental federal fiscal mismanagement, screwed up foreign policy and all the woke nonsense from both democrats and republicans at the federal level.
The same sorts up in D.C., republican and democrat, from the North and the South still supporting slavery by striking trade deals, sending billions in aid to countries that to this day still enslave their citizens. Some countries very brutally...hint, hint...Communist Chinese.
I find it a bit hypocritical all this talk about “white supremacy” particularly when millions in this country walk around sporting athletic apparel and shoes manufactured with slave labor. lol
Back then until now Aug, 4th 2022....It’s all about STATES RIGHTS. Federalism has been circumvented by unelected, extra constitutional federal bureaucratic agencies with thousands upon thousands of burrowed bureaucrats working night and day to regulate OUR behavior.
My point today lends validity to my ancestor’s contentions of the pre-war era before the beginning of the war of Northern aggression.
Are we as Americans today still supporting slavery with the off shoring of American manufacturing? Here is a link or two that may help answer that question.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-CJB-9896
http://www.endslaverynow.org/act/action-library/learn-about-forced-labor-in-china
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/10/slavery-persists-in-saudi-arabia
You will very quickly be less interested in his perspective. BroJoeK is the sort of fellow, if you ask him what time it is, he tries to tell you how to build a clock.
He will flood you with irrelevant data.