Here in Alabama, we still pick plenty of cotton, but we don't need any slaves. We have more modern ways.
If any of these folks want their old jobs back, well, the position is already filled. Sorry!
Posted on 01/05/2017 8:55:38 AM PST by CharlesOConnell
“Sheriff Clark seems to be doing OK.”
Anyone wanting to tell him otherwise should sell tickets first.
And you can, in part, thank the invention of the horse collar for the fact that slavery was on it's way out.
My Ex BIL remarried.
His Wife has a Brother who was Born with the Umbilical Cord wrapped around his neck that stopped blood flow to the Brain. He is a Developmentally Disabled Middle Aged Adult.
He is a Trump guy, thanks to my Ex BIL and his Wife. They educated him on how things are.
Obama would probably enjoy Bowling with him in the Special Olympics, but that’s another subject for another day.
Let me just say this, if those four Vermin had done to him what they did to this poor guy and were let back out on the Street where we live, there would be hell to pay.
“’My ancestors were slaves in Africa (Egypt, specifically).
That must have been a long time ago. I have four questions about that..”
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Yep. And after that, I want sumtin from them Babylonians, whoever the heck they are now.
My ancestors were abolitionists—and paid a price for their moral stand. Many of my people died in Union Blue to Free The Slaves—One died with Black Troops at the Battle of the Crater in Petersburg. Their blood paid for any “White Guilt” I might have. To not speak of such white people who gave their all for Black freedom is to spit upon their memory.
*** owned slaves, as did American Indians,***
As late as 1885 the US Cavalry was still freeing slaves from Indian owners. Most were Mexican or other Indian tribes. Some were white slaves.
Mexico abolished slavery back around 1929. Thirty five years later raiders from Mexico were still making slave raids into the USA capturing Indians for slavery in Mexico.
when I meet her, I’ll know someone who picked cotton
My ancestors were North Carolina abolitionists who joined the Union Army. For some reason, they moved North to Indiana after the war.
Chances are, if you weren't the head of a household you didn't own slaves. Women, children, the young, were less likely to own slaves than mature male heads of households. And slave owners were rarer in the Upper South than in the Deep South. According to census figures, though, close to half the families in Mississippi and South Carolina owned slaves.
If your family was here long enough -- south or north -- you might have a slave owner somewhere in your family tree. Remember John McCain who didn't realize his great-great-grandfather had not only been a plantation owner but also a slaveholder. On the other hand, if your family was here long enough, you might also have a slave somewhere in your family tree, so if it matters to you these things have a way of evening out.
The article -- or whatever it is -- is a strange one. Somebody gets beaten up or killed -- you catch the perpetrators and punish them. Not everything is an occasion for a national discussion of race.
Yeah, and those Greeks and Romans too
Let's see... my Catholic ancestors persecuted my Protestant ancestors and both persecuted my Anabaptist ancestors, who didn't tolerate Catholics... so I'll just keep those reparations checks flowing round & round & round.
;-)
"And you can, in part, thank the invention of the horse collar for the fact that slavery was on it's way out. "
"1860 census found only 8% of American families owning slaves. In only five states did more than a third of families own slaves.
Here's what you need to understand: By 1860, in Border South states like Delaware, Maryland and even Missouri, slavery was both relatively rare and arguably dieing out "naturally", meaning it was unprofitable given the record high prices for slaves and their relative ease of escaping to nearby free states.
So it can be argued that in such States slavery would have been abolished gradually, just as it was in the north.
But Deep South cotton states were a very different situation.
Extreme profitability of cotton production is what made slave prices so high, and drew a steady stream of Upper South slaves sold "done the river" to large cotton plantations.
By 1860 the Deep cotton South had an insatiable need for more slaves at ever higher prices.
That's one reason the Deep South could absolutely not tolerate any discussion of abolition, and why the election of "Ape" Lincoln and his "Black Republicans" drove them instantly to declare secession and soon after, war on the United States.
Here in Alabama, we still pick plenty of cotton, but we don't need any slaves. We have more modern ways.
If any of these folks want their old jobs back, well, the position is already filled. Sorry!
LOL! and guess who’s now sitting on their porches watching you work
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