Black people themselves.“Well they aren’t wrong”? I know civil war was fought due to states succeeding from the union. In the process slavery was abolished. In essence, Lincoln freed the slaves. Who in this country’s history has done more for the blacks?
Black people themselves.
Lincoln had no interest in the fate of the freed slaves. He proposed shipping them to Liberia, or at least was a proponent. He only cared because it was politics to keep foreign nations who had obstensively made slavery illegal from joining the Confederates.
You dont wait two years into your countries bloodiest war to announce a reason you are fighting. It was revisionism on his part.
all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free
In hindsight it probably wasn’t a bad idea. Trying to get a people to assimilate who were kidnapped and sold into slavery was a difficult it not impossible task. We are still dealing with the fall out.Black people themselves.
Lincoln had no interest in the fate of the freed slaves. He proposed shipping them to Liberia, or at least was a proponent. He only cared because it was politics to keep foreign nations who had obstensively made slavery illegal from joining the Confederates.
You dont wait two years into your countries bloodiest war to announce a reason you are fighting. It was revisionism on his part.
I think the best option was to let them decide. Hard to say how many options they really had. But sticking them back on involuntarily boat ride across the Atlantic doesnt sound like a winner.In hindsight it probably wasn’t a bad idea. Trying to get a people to assimilate who were kidnapped and sold into slavery was a difficult it not impossible task. We are still dealing with the fall out.
I think the best option was to let them decide. Hard to say how many options they really had. But sticking them back on involuntarily boat ride across the Atlantic doesnt sound like a winner.
Dude come on, you think he had time to worry with slavery while trying to rid the country of vampires?Black people themselves.
Lincoln had no interest in the fate of the freed slaves. He proposed shipping them to Liberia, or at least was a proponent. He only cared because it was politics to keep foreign nations who had obstensively made slavery illegal from joining the Confederates.
You dont wait two years into your countries bloodiest war to announce a reason you are fighting. It was revisionism on his part.