OK I have to address yours. Your second paragraph shows a lack of understanding in what this was all about. It wasn't racism. Even among northern abolitionists, and Lincoln himself, they did not see "the Negroes" as equal to whites. This wasn't viewed through the racist lens as we define it today. It was a commonly held opinion of the en…
OK I have to address yours. Your second paragraph shows a lack of understanding in what this was all about. It wasn't racism. Even among northern abolitionists, and Lincoln himself, they did not see "the Negroes" as equal to whites. This wasn't viewed through the racist lens as we define it today. It was a commonly held opinion of the entire country that they were perceived as less capable than the rest of the population. The abolitionists just felt they did not deserve to be held in bondage. So the whole country was racist.
Now as to changing history, Lincoln's assassination guaranteed that the South's trajectory after the war was going to be different. Johnson actually started on a more magnanimous course than was expected. And the radical Republicans were astonished, that after being gifted Johnson after Lincoln's death, that he wouldn't come down hard on the Southerners. They fixed that, almost impeaching him and created the reconstruction we all know about that birthed the KKK, and our first example of partisan political violence the democrats have uniquely used even today. Slowly democrats worked to expunge the newly freed slaves from the everyday flow of life. National democrats used these efforts to institutionalize this fact throughout society, birthing the likes of Margaret Sanger and Woodrow Wilson. The Bacon Davis Act was used to keep them out of skilled positions - a law still on the books.
We look with amazement at how the current government seems to want to rule over us, as opposed to govern the country. But authoritarian impulses run deep on the left, as well as a crybaby attitude when they lose politically. It's been around for almost 200 years. They are tough bunch of tyrants to beat.
Interracial slavery was not commonplace until a technological leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century made it possible to transport slaves purchased from Africans to the Americas. Also slave ships used sustainable wind energy.
OK I have to address yours. Your second paragraph shows a lack of understanding in what this was all about. It wasn't racism. Even among northern abolitionists, and Lincoln himself, they did not see "the Negroes" as equal to whites. This wasn't viewed through the racist lens as we define it today. It was a commonly held opinion of the entire country that they were perceived as less capable than the rest of the population. The abolitionists just felt they did not deserve to be held in bondage. So the whole country was racist.
Now as to changing history, Lincoln's assassination guaranteed that the South's trajectory after the war was going to be different. Johnson actually started on a more magnanimous course than was expected. And the radical Republicans were astonished, that after being gifted Johnson after Lincoln's death, that he wouldn't come down hard on the Southerners. They fixed that, almost impeaching him and created the reconstruction we all know about that birthed the KKK, and our first example of partisan political violence the democrats have uniquely used even today. Slowly democrats worked to expunge the newly freed slaves from the everyday flow of life. National democrats used these efforts to institutionalize this fact throughout society, birthing the likes of Margaret Sanger and Woodrow Wilson. The Bacon Davis Act was used to keep them out of skilled positions - a law still on the books.
We look with amazement at how the current government seems to want to rule over us, as opposed to govern the country. But authoritarian impulses run deep on the left, as well as a crybaby attitude when they lose politically. It's been around for almost 200 years. They are tough bunch of tyrants to beat.
Interracial slavery was not commonplace until a technological leap in transportation technology in the 16th Century made it possible to transport slaves purchased from Africans to the Americas. Also slave ships used sustainable wind energy.
Well said.