Posted on 08/15/2020 6:00:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
While the “institution” of slavery is abhorrent, not all slave owners mistreated their slaves. If you read the “Slave Narratives” in the Library of Congress you’ll find that many freed slaves did not want to leave the plantations. It was where many were born and raised and was the only constant they’d known. Their master’s family treated them well and many even said that they were “like family.”
I don’t believe that this justifies slavery at all but it does show that not all slaves were treated like Toby in Roots.
Did I read that right: her great-grandfather was from Ohio but he went to Georgia with a gun and got shot?
Stay out of Georgia if you are toting a gun and plan on killing someone.
There are countless cases of former slaves sharecropping the former masters land to pay the taxes and to stop tax foreclosure. It was a group effort.
I applaud her intent and organization. Anything that promotes history and civil discourse is infinitely better than what we have now.
That being said, the monument destroyers have no time for reasoned discourse or consideration, they are a mob and are operating with the tacit, and in some cases explicit, support of academia, politicians and popular culture. They are tearing down monuments / statues of abolitionists, Lincoln, Washington and Columbus in addition to those of our Civil War. This movement is full of popular rage, a mindless moron march of progressive thought, untainted by a schooling which has voided history.
+1
“Why are you fightn’ reb?”
“’cause ya’ll are down here.”
as told by Shelby Steele
“Forced to serve under Robert E. Lee”? IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots.
Tell that to Sherman.
Was that Andersonville ???
Ive been there...
And, it was not just former slaves that were sharecropping. There just as many, if not more whites sharecropping during those days. The Yankees destroyed everything necessary to sustain life and sharecropping was common.
bttt
“IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots”
The Home Guard in the South routinely press ganged Southerners into the State militias towards the end of the war. At the beginning, they had no problem getting volunteers.
They lost confidence because they started taking young men during the harvests, causing farms to fail.
Elmira was just as bad.
Not talked about because you know...winners get to write the history.
Great reply, you wrote what I wanted to say only stated it much better! God bless.
I applaud her intent and organization. Anything that promotes history and civil discourse is infinitely better than what we have now.
That being said, the monument destroyers have no time for reasoned discourse or consideration, they are a mob and are operating with the tacit, and in some cases explicit, support of academia, politicians and popular culture. They are tearing down monuments / statues of abolitionists, Lincoln, Washington and Columbus in addition to those of our Civil War. This movement is full of popular rage, a mindless moron march of progressive thought, untainted by a schooling which has voided history.
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Well and truly said, and every word of it!
“Forced to serve under Robert E. Lee”? IIRC, it was the Yankees who had a draft and draft riots.
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I could easily be wrong, but I thought I had read somewhere that there was conscription in the Confederacy during the War of Northern Aggression. No?
Tell that to Sherman.
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Some historians credit (or discredit) Gen. Sherman with being the originator of the strategy of “total war” as was waged from Atlanta to Savannah under his command.
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