I am descended from several slaveholders through various branches of my family. It has occurred to me in the past that my family invested a great deal of money in a practice that was completely legal, and that money was lost to them with no remuneration.
Losing a war sucks, man.
I am descended from several slaveholders through various branches of my family. It has occurred to me in the past that my family invested a great deal of money in a practice that was completely legal, and that money was lost to them with no remuneration.
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LOL. Are you suggesting that your family got no return for their investment? I’m sorry, but that’s a crock.
We're all real broken up about your family's loss.
Legal and moral are not the same. Anyone who engaged in the practice deserved the economic losses incurred by Emancipation.
I usually lurk here and don’t often have a question that has not been asked by others. But your comment begs the question: Are you upset that your ancestors did not get compensated? And what is your opinion of slavery in the United States?
FWIW, I live in Illinois and get agitated whenever I end up behind a pickup with the glass tinted with a confederate flag. Our state motto is land of Lincoln. I just read a wonderful 9 volume account of the civil war. The details from that period were new to me, as my prior education merely scratched the surface on the issues of that day. But I do recall that Lincoln wanted to compensate slave holders for their loss of property. IIRC that was the gist of his solution while he was running for president. His election in November 1860 was the deciding factor in the south forming the confederacy. Between the time he was elected and took office, the Confederate States of America was formed. The south rejected the idea of compensation before hostilities broke out. It can be argued that they turned their back on the rule of law.