The wave of the future, I'm telling ya!
Posted on 03/17/2006 8:50:53 AM PST by High Cotton
Teaching about the slave trade "is the right thing to do," Wright said. "Absent South Carolina, the biggest importer of slaves was New York City."
The New York Historical Society recently presented an exhibition on slavery in New York that featured documents, paintings, video and sculpture.
In lower Manhattan, a long-lost burial ground where thousands of slaves and free blacks were laid to rest during the 18th century was recently declared a national monument by President Bush.
Slavery was abolished in New York in 1827, but when the American Revolution began in 1776, the only city with more slaves than New York was Charleston, South Carolina.
Oyster Bay eighth-grader Fiona Brunner said she was amazed to find out there were slaves buried near Oyster Bay.
"You always think that happened so far away, only in the South, and a lot of it was right here in our town," she said.
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Marshall Mathers, watch out!
This MC can spit rhymes with the best of 'em.
In short the war should have NEVER HAPPENNED and it is sad and tragic that tens of thousands of young men, some of whom were shooting at their brothers, nephews and cousins, had to die, to say nothing of the horribly disfigured veterans who would dominate skid rows for decades after the war.
I forget to address Sumner. In terms of attitude, Sumner was essentially John Kerry with a high IQ (Sumnner at least not being a global socialist). He was an arrogant blowhard and mediocre Senator, who made the mistake of personally insulting another hothead across the aisles family. Can't say I blame Pres for coming into the Senate to defend his brother's honor, with a club.
Interestingly enough, Charles Sumner was a close friend of the Adams family, functioning as an "uncle" to Henry Adams. Henry Adams, who was known to believe that the Confederacy was in the right on the secession question, always referred to Uncle Charles as a kind and sensitive man. Nevertheless, his public persona was that of high intellect and arrogance in spades.
Gangs of New York presents some of that.
The wave of the future, I'm telling ya!
The Republic of Vermont constitution banned slavery in 1777. Vermont entered the union in 1791 and never had slaves while a state.
In the "Great Sioux Uprising of 1862", 250 indians were sentenced to hang in the upper midwest.
Lincoln intervened, only the leaders were hanged, (30 or so), Lincoln's intervention on the part of the Indians absolutely enraging the local settlers.
It was still an awful tragedy.
The great grandmother of an extended family member remembers hiding in caves along the banks of the Mississippi River. It was a bloody 30 years or so war.
No, Spoons Butler.
Of curse, they were "winning our hearts and minds".
It's about time public schools started teaching the WHOLE truth about slavery....well, it's a start anyway.
I've often wondered...as the states in the North made slavery illegal, did the slaves get freed, or did they just get sold to Southern states?
A look at Chicago history would be interesting for the self-righteous Yankees.
The summer of 1919 should be noted, as well as the anti-Black demonstrations by Whites through the 40’s and 50s. Race riots were an annual event in 1966-1968. Even as recently as 1977 Chicago wasn’t exactly a haven of love between the races.
the ones he did hang were probably INNOCENT. the guilty (as all too frequently happens) went free.
lincoln, the TYRANT & RACIST, was nothing but a clone of wee willie klintoon or perhaps it's the reverse.
EITHER/BOTH would have sent out recipes for cooking HUMANS from the White House, if 2% of the population decided that cannibalism was a good idea.
NEITHER had more morals than an average alley cat. BOTH would do ANYTHING to "get ahead".
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Those were brutal, violent times. It is intellectually dishonest to cherry pick slight imperfections.
IMO the entire South should get down on it's knees every day and give thanks to the Almighty for the sainted martyr Lincoln, who saved the South's sorry ____ from the worst, most incompetent leadership the world has ever seen. (At least until Muslim leadership).
The neo-confederates are losing their grip even in the heart of the old South.
Whatever the prejudices about Blacks that Lincoln shared with his fellow countrymen in 1860, by the standards of his day, he wasn't especially bigoted or negrophobic. He demonstrated an openness to change and experience during his presidency.
Consider his late speech supporting the extension of the right to vote to "qualified" Blacks. That might not seem like much today, but considering the times and Lincoln's earlier views it was quite a step.
Of course Lincoln died before he could implement reconstruction so we can't say what he would have done, but given your record of making things up and lying, it's hard to give much credence to your opinions.
There are always some people who choose to ignore historical facts, such as the Vermont constitution banning slavery during the American Revolution.
Southern state's politicians deliberately instigated and full scale insurrection in 1860 in order to maintain and expand slavery, hoping European powers would send in foreign troops and destroy the Union once and for all.
The difference being that the Northern states peacefully ended slavery by amending their own constitutions while the south chose to initiate a long and destructive rebellion to protect their institution of slavery.
Both. Many were freed, but some owners chose to sell their slaves to owners in slave states. I have no idea what the proportions were.
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