>>Bull Snipe wrote: “Would think that the perpetual enslavement of 3.5 million people as one of your Constitutional requirements would be considered evil by some.”
It didn’t matter to your hero, Abraham Lincoln; why should it matter to you? You do know that in Lincoln’s so-called “Emancipation Proclamation” he made it crystal clear that it was okay for you to own slaves, as long as you were loyal to the Union. He even promoted a Constitutional Amendment to make slavery permanent in the existing slave states, just so he could “save the Union” and continue the flow of crony-capitalist revenue from protective tariffs (the Confederate Constitution’s free-trade articles would have diverted much of the New England shipping to the Southern ports.)
How do you feel about the New England states, for over a century, getting rich on the slave trade? How do you feel about many of the Northern slave-masters selling their slaves to Southern plantations, rather than emancipating them? How do you feel about New England self-proclaimed abolitionists getting rich selling pianos that contained imported piano-key ivory from brutal slave plantations in Africa? (. . . sorta reminds me of the wealthy Leftists of today getting rich on the backs of cheap foreign laborers working in slave-like conditions . . . )
How do you feel about many Northern abolitionists not wanting free blacks to migrate to their respective states, preferring they settle somewhere else? How do you feel about the Black Codes in the Northern states, some of which banned the migration of free blacks into their states by legislation, including Lincoln’s home-state, Illinois?
Talk about hypocrites! Sanctimonious anti-Southerners are all a bunch of hypocrites.
Mr. Kalamata
Talk about hypocrites!
So you believe that it is perfectly ethical to own a person as one would own a dog, horse, or sheep. You see no injustice, evil, or moral issues with the enslavement of 4.2 million people.
your hero, Abraham Lincoln;
Don’t believe in heros.
“How do you feel about the New England states, for over a century, getting rich on the slave trade?”
It was legal until 1808. The New Englanders got rich because unlike their southern countrymen. they were willing to build the ships and crew them.
“How do you feel about many of the Northern slave-masters selling their slaves to Southern plantations.”
It was legal to sell property.
How do you feel about New England self-proclaimed abolitionists getting rich selling pianos that contained imported piano-key ivory from brutal slave plantations in Africa?
It legal to import ivory into the United States.
The pianos were most likely sold to rich Southern plantation slave masters.
“How do you feel about many Northern abolitionists not wanting free blacks to migrate to their respective states, preferring they settle somewhere else?”
By the definition of the term “racist” in use today, 95% of the citizens of the United States would be labeled racist.
Laws that limit free blacks in states does not seem out of the ordinary. In Slave states, it was illegal for a freed slave to live in the state.
Black codes existed in Northern States and Slave states.
as I said, 95% of the people in this country were racists,
by todays standards.
I’m not anti-Southern. Just anti-Confederacy.