Posted on 04/10/2008 5:54:11 AM PDT by stan_sipple
How many Nebraskans died in the civil war fighting to end slavery? Is that apology enough?
More white people died in the Civil War that did Blacks. The white people set the slaves free. Where is the Beef? The carpetbaggers came to the south and took the plantations away from the legal owners and forced them into servitude or chased them out of the south with high taxes they could not pay. Why should whites be punished forever? Where is the real Beef?
You can’t apologize for something you didn’t do. This is crazy and should be ignored.
Pederson got it half right. He is a tool if he apologizes. My take on it is this: A month from now, all at one time, every white person in America say “I’m sorry”, then immediately banish all aff. action, quotas, welfare, and any other race-biased program or agenda.
I think it would be equally appropriate for the Nebraska legislature to debate how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Actually, that might even be more productive. At least neither debate results in more laws being passed, which is good.
also we did not have jim crow laws. the cornhuskers had an integrated football team way before other teams in our conference
There are no pot holes to be filled in Nebraska? These asshats have way to much time on their hands!
I read somewhere, in going through sources for some discussion about something else, that the first blacks to land in Virginia weren't chattel slaves, but indentured servants bound on the same terms as great numbers of Europeans who came over in bondage.
The Virginia burgesses instituted chattel slavery, or life indenture as it was at first called reflecting its origins, when a master of some African bonded servants brought suit demanding satisfaction. The servants had run away some considerable time before their indentures expired, and had been recaptured years later, after the bond had expired. So he demanded that they be placed in an indefinite bondage so that he could receive the balance of the service he was owed. This was the beginning of chattel slavery.
The master who brought suit was himself black, an African bondman who'd served out his own indenture and started a farm of his own as a freeman of the community, importing other black indentured servants on his own.
I don't recall the exact year the magistrates handed down their decision, but it was about 1645.
As for Nebraska, the 1860 census showed that the territory indeed had slaves. Two of them. Two whole slaves.
Someone needs to get a life.
"Dwite"? LMAO!!
For what conceivable reason would this be done?
What would be accomplished?
Sometimes I can only shake my head. Liberalism IS a mental disease.
That’s incredible. There were only two slaves in Nebraska?
I learned a lot about black slavery yesterday from a fellow Freeper who sent me this link:
http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
There were thousands of black slave owners. Some of them owned large plantations and were rich - rich enough to buy their own pew on the first floor of the white Episcopal church. They described one who was a slave breeder (a practice frowned on at that time) and he sold his own children into slavery - one of whom he freed in his will.I think he also owned a factory, run by slave labor, making cotton gins.
According to the article being a slave wasn’t exactly like we learned in history class. Some freed slaves even petitioned to return to slavery because it would provide them with food and shelter that they couldn’t provide themselves.
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