Vanity - Some facts I didn't know about slavery

Vanity ^ | 22 Mar 2008 | Mr Rogers

[TCats]

It is truly unbelievable the revisionist history that has been dumped on so many ignorant people about the reality of the Republicans role in Civil Rights from the beginning. Instead they follow the lead of their false ‘Emancipators’ of the likes of “Sheets” Byrd and a host of other Southern Democrats.

Such ignorance and cynicism on the part of so-called Black Leaders.

[southland]

I am from North Alabama and had family on both sides in the Civil War. My father’s great uncle was in first Alabama Union Army was captured and sent to Danville Virginia where he died in Late 1863. The brother, my dad’s GF, never went to war and hid out during the war. North Alabama was mixed in the decision of which side to support.

[TCats]

I think that question, the opinion on reparations, is too hot to handle for either of the Dems so they have an unspoken truce on the issue. However, I'm certain it will come up in the General Election if Obama is the Dem nominee.

[chaosagent]

Great Article!

[HIDEK6]

thither.

Good word!

[Captain Rhino]

first Alabama Union Army

Was this an actual Union Army unit? (i.e., 1st Alabama Regiment,USA?)

I probably had some distant relatives on my maternal great grandmother's side involved in the Civil War. (Probably on the confederate side since they lived in south central Virginia.) But she didn't come into our family line until the 1890's.

My maternal family line is from various parts of the United Kingdom and started arriving in the North either just prior to or, more likely, just after the Civil War. Proceeded by bounds across the northern US (Minnesota, Nebraska, etc.) before settling in Idaho.

My paternal line arrived as a penniless 15 year-old WWI refugee from Belgium in 1915 and settled in Michigan.

[Twinkie]

If we would, as human beings, approach every situation with simple love and compassion for our fellow beings, it would have gone and would go so very far in making a better world. If the slave masters had all agreed to free their slaves before that war, or at the very least after the war, educated and tried to help them by organizing everyone to now work together with FAIR sharecropping offers and looking at the freed slave as a human being, teaching him to read and offering him the same education as his own children received - with love instead of condescending behavior in many instances - perhaps things might be different. I think we need to heed the same lesson in our zeal against the Latino immigrants while demanding that our porous borders be sealed and our immigration laws be enforced as much as possible.

If Christian people don’t minister to the Latino population as well as the black population, we can be sure the Muslims will. Sometimes the truth may be the best ministry of them all.

[Twinkie]

The Pyramids are awesome! Quit whining about reparations! :O)

[bpjam]

The Pyramids are awesome! Quit whining about reparations! :O)

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At least they should have the courtesy not to charge me admission when I visit.....

[Twinkie]

Now, that IS wrong !!

[allmendream]

The Constitutional compromise on apportionment was not that the slaves were in any way less than human.

The state proportional power was based upon the number of people to be represented who lived there. The slave States thought the slaves should count, for they ‘represented’ their interests inasmuch as wishing to retain their value as a commodity. The compromise was that they only represented 3/5ths of that persons interests, not that the person was less than a person.

“Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.)” From Article I.