I've read a lot of the Slave Narraitives and I can't remember a single instance where the person being interviewed wished that they were still a slave.
As was the case in much of the north.
It was the case in the entire south and only part of the North and you still dispute my claim that as bad as it was up North it was worse down south?
See #5 and others in the 1860 platform
You ever read the LeCompton Constitution? If so you breezed past Section 1 which said, "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever" and past Section 2 which said "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves so emancipated. They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to the State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves." I think that those were the parts that the Republican platform had problems with.
Nonsense again. See the previous post regarding Georgia.
So are you suggesting that the Black Codes continued during Reconstruction? Or that Jim Crow laws were passed in spite of the ex-confederates who were in office for years following Reconstruction?
I'm so sorry, I can't understand how you had missed it. Recalling her days in servitude she opines,
'"But, honey, de good ole days is now gone foreber. De ole days was railly the good times. How I wish I could go back to de days w'en we lived at Johnson's landing on de riber ..."'
"Aunt" Charity Anderson, Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Alabama Narratives, Vol. I, p. 14.
It was the case in the entire south and only part of the North and you still dispute my claim that as bad as it was up North it was worse down south?
Unless you have problems comprehending the written language, I do dispute that claim. Both sides were wrong by today's standards, just southerners weren't hypocrites.
The state legislature of Illinois issued a joint resolution recognizing the fact that it enumerated slaves in violation of the Northwest Ordinance, and practiced slavery masked as indentured servitude. Numerous northern states prohibited blacks from emmigrating into their states. In the few states that did grant the right of suffrage to blacks, they had to pay a huge sum for the privledge; many northern states had laws preventing intermarriage, prohibited blacks from attending school or being treated in hospitals, prohibited them from owing property, from being a juror, from being a witnees, from holding elected office, barred them from legal representation, from initiating suits etc. In Ohio, an 1807 law forced blacks to pay a $500 per person for a "freedom" certificate or leave the state. In Illinois, blacks had to pay $1000 to emmigrate into the state (1829). Any runaway in the state could be sentenced by a justice of the peace to thirty-five lashes, and groups of three or more could be jailed and flogged.
You ever read the LeCompton Constitution?
Yep.
I think that those were the parts that the Republican platform had problems with. [referring to the 'right of property', uncompensated forced emmancipation, and 'no power to prevent [black] emigrants' into the territories].
In other words, the Republicans had problems abiding by the Constitution, a 7-2 decision of the US Supreme Court, the citizenship acts of the country since it's founding, and their ratification agreements to uphold the Constitution? Who's the criminal here?
So are you suggesting that the Black Codes continued during Reconstruction? Or that Jim Crow laws were passed in spite of the ex-confederates who were in office for years following Reconstruction?
When did they end up North? The Ohio laws mandating separate schools for blacks (passed in 1853), and prohibiting interracial marriage (1861) were repealed in 1877. Blacks in Ohio and Illinois were prohibited from voting until 1870 (including the Illinois Civil Rights Act of 1885) - what was their excuse?