“The slavers of the Confederacy”
1. How many slavers were there in the Confederacy?
2. How many slavers were there in the Union?
3. How many slavers were black?
4. What started the New York draft riot?
5. Why did Lincoln hold the Emancipation Proclamation until January 1, 1863?
6. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation free only the slaves in the Confederacy, but not those up north?
7. Would you pay 600,000 lives to end slavery today, when you knew it would end in ten years anyway? How about if one of those lives was yours, or your son’s?
8. Of all the other slaveholding new world countries, how many had to have a civil war to end slavery?
9. What year did England end slavery?
10. What year did the United States invent the institution of slavery, which had never existed in the world before.
In 1860? In the Confederate States - 316,519. In the two border south states that the Confederacy considered part of them - 62,965.
2. How many slavers were there in the Union?
In the rest of the U.S. - 14,491
3. How many slavers were black?
A tiny percentage of the total.
4. What started the New York draft riot?
Conscription.
5. Why did Lincoln hold the Emancipation Proclamation until January 1, 1863?
He didn't. He issued the Emancipation Proclamation in September 1862 and made it effective January 1, 1863.
6. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation free only the slaves in the Confederacy, but not those up north?
Because constitutionally Lincoln could not end slavery. That's the same reason why the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in that part of the South not liberated by Union troops. He could, however, free slaves being used to support the rebellion under the powers of the Confiscation Acts.
7. Would you pay 600,000 lives to end slavery today, when you knew it would end in ten years anyway? How about if one of those lives was yours, or your son’s?
Would you pay 600,000 lives in a war to defend your right to slavery? And who placed the ten year timestamp on the institution?
8. Of all the other slaveholding new world countries, how many had to have a civil war to end slavery?
None, since none of the other slave holding countries launched a war to defend it.
9. What year did England end slavery?
1833
10. What year did the United States invent the institution of slavery, which had never existed in the world before.
That's kind of a silly question. Nobody is suggesting the U.S. invented slavery.