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Understanding Slavery

Discussion in 'History Forum' started by Hardsheller, Aug 22, 2003.

  1. Dr. Bob

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    Throughout the horrors of Reconstruction forced by the North upon their "brothers", the term "yankeescum" was ONE WORD. It described the men in blue.

    They had worse single terms for the black Federals who were sent south to occupy the conquered lands.

    My comments about treating slaves like we would treat horses should be self-evident. SOME would abuse the animals, underfeed them, whip them, overwork them. SOME slave holders did the same, which, of course, I condemn.

    As for cost, a working man in 1850-60 would earn $12-15 a month. So $500 for a slave would be equivalent of 3 years wages. BTW, only a great race horse would cost that much.

    And a reminder: 95% of the CSA soldiers never owned a slave. They were NOT fighting for slaves.

    Hope that clearifies.
     
  2. Tazman

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    "It's like you can teach and teach and teach and the light never comes on."

    This is funny, because you can also guid towards the light and never share in it too. [​IMG]

    You teach, but don't learn. Why move on with the present if you haven't learned from the past. Your bound to repeat it. Even the bible is based on the past, present and future. All matters.

    Slavery goes far beyond race and social standings. Wars are always about freedom. The freedom to control or the freedom to be controled. In the end its all the same. [​IMG]
     
  3. rlvaughn

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    In the process of looking for something else, I ran across this interesting piece of slavery/emancipation history:
    http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Amendnotrat.html
     
  4. Frogman

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    Thanks Brother Vaughn that was a very interesting read.

    Dallas
     
  5. rlvaughn

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    To understand how states dealt with gradual emancipation, consider Pennsylvania's Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery. For example:
    The gradual emancipation act in New Jersey was somewhat different, coming about 25 years later:
    I have found a discrepancy from information in my Tidbits post above (about 6 before this one), concerning emancipation in Rhode Island. While my encyclopedia gave 1774, other sources say that in 1784, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a Negro Emancipation Act, freeing the children of slaves when the men became 21 and the women 18. But there was some type of legislation against slavery in Rhode Island passed as early as 1652, according to some sources.
     
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