I’m sorry. I couldn’t read past “agree on with”.
*There were exceptions for some Parasish in Lousinana and for now W Virginia.
I’m southern and I have the family Bible from the 1823 where handwritten notes from then through the war stated distaste of slavery. For one, the slaves were cheap labor, taking jobs the poor southerners desired.
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There are the occasional disagreements about whether slavery was the cause or was it purely economic.
My standard go to (I admit a futile attempt most times) is to ask if there would have been a Civil War if there had been no slavery from the beginning of America.
This will start an argument every time.
On another note, we are seeing the influx of a culture and religion that has engaged in slavery for more that a thousand years; even to this day in Africa. I shudder to think what will happen in the future if this ideology wins out here. We may yet see the results in Europe first.
Amen! Slavery was in contradiction to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and that was the subject of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
This is very hard to read. Translation, anyone?
This is going to be fun to watch.
Ah yes here we trot out the tired old “Cornerstone” speech by the powerless Vice President of the Confederacy while completely ignoring the fact that the actual president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis said the exact opposite of Stephens. Not only was there not a lineage break from the Constitution to the Confederacy, the truth is exactly the opposite. It was the Confederates who wanted to essentially preserve the balance between the states and the federal government the states delegated some of their sovereign powers to that the Founding Fathers had created. It was Lincoln and the Radical Republicans of the time who wanted to overthrow the balanced system the Founding Fathers created in favor of a much more centralized system of government that we have now....to our cost.
There was indeed hostility to slave trading at the outset though it must be noted that the slave trade and slavery though related are two different things. A 20 year sunset provision to allow the slave trade to continue was added to the constitution at the insistence of the numerous and powerful New England slave traders. Illicit slave trading was carried out by Northern slave traders right up until the mid 19th century. It was in fact one of the largest industries in the Northern states. An estimated two slave ships per month were being built and outfitted in NYC well into the 19th century.
The whole 1619 project of the Old Grey Lady is of course pure historical fallacy. Slavery existed before 1619 in what is now the United States. It was far from only Whites who participated in it and it is far from only Blacks who were enslaved. Slavery was the norm the world over at that time. Not unusual. Not unique to North America. The Norm. Everywhere. It was a simple fact of life, not the basis of everything in North America from that date on as the Racist New York Times would have it.
Lincoln tried to get the Corwin Amendment passed, which would protect slavery indefinitely.
Lincoln might have been against slavery, but not as much as he was in favor of controlling the economic output of the South.
He was completely willing to keep slavery so long as it left Washington DC in control of the 230 million dollars per year the South was producing, and which was funding 73% of all Federal taxes.
Here we go again.