[Seward] replied, “that the Emancipation Proclamation was uttered in the first gun fired at Sumter, and we have been the last to hear it.”
Posted on 04/02/2011 12:04:41 AM PDT by iowamark
...Baker, Mallory and Townsend were field hands who — like hundreds of other local slaves — had been pressed into service by the Confederates, compelled to build an artillery emplacement. They labored beneath the banner of the 115th Virginia Militia, a blue flag bearing a motto in golden letters: “Give me liberty or give me death.”
After a week or so of this, they learned some deeply unsettling news. Their master, a rebel colonel named Charles Mallory, was planning to send them even farther from home, to help build fortifications in North Carolina. That was when the three slaves decided to leave the Confederacy and try their luck, just across the water, with the Union...
...“I intend to hold them,” Butler said.
“Do you mean, then, to set aside your constitutional obligation to return them?”
Even the dour Butler must have found it hard to suppress a smile. This was, of course, a question he had expected. And he had prepared what he thought was a fairly clever answer.
“I mean to take Virginia at her word,” he said. “I am under no constitutional obligations to a foreign country, which Virginia now claims to be.”
“But you say we cannot secede,” Cary retorted, “and so you cannot consistently detain the Negroes.”
“But you say you have seceded,” Butler said, “so you cannot consistently claim them. I shall hold these Negroes as contraband of war, since they are engaged in the construction of your battery and are claimed as your property.”
Ever the diligent litigator, Butler had been reading up on his military law. In time of war, he knew, a commander had a right to seize any enemy property that was being used for hostile purposes. The three fugitive slaves, before their escape, were helping build a Confederate gun emplacement...
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[Seward] replied, “that the Emancipation Proclamation was uttered in the first gun fired at Sumter, and we have been the last to hear it.”
We have debt slavery NOW.
We have had it since the third central bank, this one is called the FED.
“What is it called when by acts of Congress and the President supported by the Supremes decree each and every citizen, of these United States are in a perpetual debt for the rest of their days?”
Indentured servitude. Our monetary system does exactly this to ALL of us, but MORE to our children.
Debt slavery is NOT capitalism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excellent points!
Thank you!
Bump!
here is something for you... slav? what does it mean?
Tell this to the MB
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zM_MzkLKPY
It seems to me any type of 'slavery' has 'debt' as part of the equation. Those early settlers certainly bought and sold fellow human beings for the sole purpose to NOT be in debt.
What caught my attention was the way the 'title' was phrased... How Slavery Really Ended in America.
See after a bit of time, much bloodshed, and huge treasury, it seemed that all individuals citizens of this nation finally got the message that all were endowed by our Creator with unalienable 'rights'. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It does not much matter the cause or purpose, somewhere along our way we as a nation have willingly turned over our individual freedom to social collectivists that now own US.
I appreciate your kind words. Given where we literally are today, the ‘title’ is most misleading.
Look at what the supposed purpose is to open up our borders, for our economy. Work at a cheap price for jobs supposedly Americans won't do. Personally speaking I consider this a profit off the labor of non-citizens to pad the pockets of a few. I have often wondered if in the ‘fine’ print of ‘free trade’ agreement if cheap laborers are not part of the arrangements.
So the Illinois Butcher™, over 600,000 slaughtered©, invaded a sovereign nation. In the Blue Belly's own words it's true.
Freedom is an ideal. Your argument is puerile and not worth debating. I assure you, virtually any bondsman of 1858 would trade places with you in a heartbeat.
No one lives in free from obligations, including the obligation to pay taxes. That our freely elected government has acted irresponsibly and counter to our wishes is true, but that is not the same thing as being the complete chattel of another person.
They probably sent these three former slaves up to Point Lookout Maryland, to guard Confederate prisoners and find sport in shooting them whenever they felt like it.
No the prisoners were so mal nourished at Pt. Lookout Md. they could not run. No sport in shooting a scarecrow laying on the ground.
FYI:
http://www.ncobra.org/index.html
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America is a mass-based coalition organized for the sole purpose of obtaining reparations for African descendants in the United States.
as in most cases, the reader responses are better than the article itself...
Pay attention to J. P. Morgan on thus page:
http://www.ncobra.org/events/index.html
snip-
J. P. Morgan Acknowledge Debt for Slavery
J.P Morgan Chase’s disclosure of its predecessors’ complicity in the enslavement of African people came about because of the strategic organizing on the legislative front and the ever increasing mobilizing efforts of Reparations Activists throughout the country. The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA) applaud the work of Chicago Reparations Activists, and the legislative efforts of frontrunners like Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman of Chicago, Illinois, for championing legislation which requires companies seeking to do business with the City to disclose records of participation, investment in, and profiting from the enslavement of African people in the U.S. We want other elected officials at the local, state, and federal level and grass roots Reparations Activists to know that the initial effort of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co. is clearly a victory. We must remain confident that our ongoing efforts to organize and mobilize for support of our demand for Reparations will ultimately be victorious
-snip
thus -—should be this
Might not have been very sporting, but nevertheless they did get shot by black prison guards for sport.
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