Wednesday, June 24, 2015
On the Fact that in 1834 Prudence Crandall Was Arrested, Jailed, Tried, and Finally Convicted of Violating the "Black Law" in Connecticut
Her crime? Try, educating a black child. Oh, yeah, the North was a great model of equality.........................................................................................P.S. And, while, yes, the conviction was ultimately overturned by a higher court, it was strictly because of a technicality and not even remotely based upon principle AND the harassment of Ms. Crandall continued for years (racist schmucks constantly pelting the schoolhouse with mud, stones, and eggs and they even tried to set it on fire)....Attaway my forefathers, attaway.
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Everything's relative, Will. While of course the North was no enlightened paradise for blacks, it was overall a lot better than the slave hell of the South. And yes, the Emancipation Proclamation was one of the best things ever done in the history of this country, regardless of some places adopting it just a little late.
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is one of the biggest jokes in American history. a) It wasn't penned until the war was well into its second year and b) it didn't free a single solitary slave. Yep, that's right, this wonderful document only claimed to emancipate slaves from the Confederate territories and, if anything, it codified the institution in other places (in the Northern and border slave states such as Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, counties of West Virginia, and even in those parts of the Confederacy which at that point were under Union control; sections of Louisiana, for instance). And even in the Confederacy, those states and localities would have also been exempt if in fact they had returned to the Union by January 1, 1863!!!.................................................................So, if the document wasn't for a humanitarian cause, what then? A lot of (non-Lincoln worshiping) scholars have concluded that (especially being that the document was written when it looked like the South was winning) it was written essentially for two purposes, both quite inflammatory; a) to incite a series of slave revolts that would take a lot of the Confederate soldiers off the front and b) to replenish their own depleted forces with freed slaves. Now, obviously the slaves eventually were set free after the war but to say that this was the primary aim of Lincoln and this little document of his is false and I believe that I've proven that.
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