Should the Democratic Party Apologize for Slavery?

I’m going to give you a snip from a book that will show you just one of the reasons why they indeed starved at Ft. Gibson. It wasn’t just slaves, it was union sympathetic refugees as well. Union and Confederate refugee citizens couldn’t feed themselves, much less ‘freed’ slaves.

What book is that? Title, author etc?

You implied in your original post that it was after the war when 'Lincoln' (or someone) allowed these refugees to starve to death through either indifference or malice.

But what you present for evidence shows it not after the war, but during the war when the Confederate forces disrupted the Union supply line to a remote outpost.

Your post also has no mention of the fact that the Oklahoma Cherokee were split very violently between slaveholders and the 'uncivilized' who took in the escaped slaves and made them part of the tribe. Many 'black' slaves there could not even speak English. Many, if not the majority of slaves in Oklahoma were mixed Cherokee-African blood who only spoke Cherokee.

Stand Watie was the guy chasing slaves and a large portion of the Union troops in Oklahoma then were in fact either loyal Cherokee or part of the 1st Kansas all black regiment.

Whatever happened there (still no evidence of mass starvation that I can see in your excerpt) was not intentional neglect as you implied, it was part of the ugly process of war.

Blame Stand Watie for doing his job of cutting off supplies to his enemy. But to blame Lincoln or the Republicans is obscene.

BTW. Allow me to ask you. Would you rather face deprivation, and possibly death in the fight for freedom, of would you rather have a full belly and be a slave for life?

Well, you’re trying to find something to argue about, and no I didn’t imply anything, you did.

I wrote the book. Learn this history,and then get back to me.

The letters quoted are actual letters. Contact the Univ. of Oklahoma if you want some copies. Some of them are handed down in my family.

I really don’t care what you believe, you just want the whine.
That’s fine, just know what you’re talking about first.

I won’t waste any more time on you.

That is like saying there were Roman Catholic Rabbis.

In the UK, they have an Anglican (Church of England) imam.

Rowan Williams, who in his capacity of Archbishop of Canterbury is the head of the Church of England. Our thanks are not due this cleric, however, for his appalling pronouncement last week that we had better get used to the imposition of Shariah law in Britain since it is now, in his words, "unavoidable."

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