To: Notary Sojac
May be, may be not. It is clearly fair to say that the slaves had the right to take up the sword to win their own freedom.There were no slave revolts during the Civil War. None.
Most manumitted slaves stayed on the old plantations as sharecroppers post-bellum. Loyalty to the beatings and whippings I guess.
28 posted on
02/12/2011 5:11:26 PM PST by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
There were no slave revolts during the Civil War. None.A fair point. Had I been President in 1861, I would have let the South secede, and thereafter treated it as a foreign country.
I would have done everything possible to encourage "regime change" from within the South, peaceful if possible, not if not.
Certainly the raw material was there for the making....
43 posted on
02/13/2011 6:43:09 AM PST by
Notary Sojac
(We have had three central banks in America's history: two of them failed and so will this one....)
To: central_va
There were no slave revolts during the Civil War. None. Over 100,000 slaves joined the Union army and fought bravely. They didn't need to revolt with pitchforks and axes like in the past. They were issued muskets and cannon.
46 posted on
02/13/2011 6:50:46 AM PST by
Ditto
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