The abolitionist movement was a North Eastern, Protestant movement. The printing and distribution of abolitionist material in the south was prohibited. Simply possessing a copy of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was illegal in most of the south.
And why don't the damyankees talk about the the free blacks who owned slaves?
Even if this was true, it is irrelevant. Slavery is wrong, period. Whether North or South. The truth is this is a red herring designed to direct attention away from the main point - that being that Chattel slavery was a southern institution (isolated incidents elsewhere notwithstanding) and was the reason for the secession.
or about the blacks who fought for the South.
Largely myth built on a handful of cases.
Or tell the truth about the numeration of slaves (three fifths?) My understanding was that count was dreamed up by Yankees who feared a loss of power should the South count all slaves as the South wanted to. Yankees didn't want slaves counted at all.The three fifth solution was the compromise.
The South fought John Adams and the other anti-Slavery Northerners at the Constitutional convention for weeks when they wanted to abolish slavery then and there at the founding. Then, after they argued for weeks that slaves were "property" and not people, and convincing Adams 7 Co. that there would be no nation if he kept pushing the abolition of slavery, they had the gall to insist that their "property" count towards representation in congress.
The 3/5th of a person was yet another acquiescence to southern obstruction. They had no choice if they wanted a ratified Constitution.
I can see you gradiated from a little red schoolhouse up north somewhere.AH--YOu are as entitled to your dementia
as JohnKerry is his-I reckon.
I can see you gradiated from a little red schoolhouse up north somewhere.AH--YOu are as entitled to your dementia
as JohnKerry is his-I reckon.