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re: Slavery was not the only issue the South was fighting for
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:05 pm to geauxbrown
Posted on 8/20/17 at 1:05 pm to geauxbrown
Lincoln wanted to send the freed slaves out of the U.S.
Mash
Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page, the authors of Colonisation After Emancipation, discovered documents in the National Archives in Kew and in the US that will significantly alter his legacy.
They found an order from Mr Lincoln in June 1863 authorising a British colonial agent, John Hodge, to recruit freed slaves to be sent to colonies in what are now the countries of Guyana and Belize.
“Hodge reported back to a British minister that Lincoln said it was his ‘honest desire’ that this emigration went ahead,” said Mr Page, a historian at Oxford University.
The plan came despite an earlier test shipment of about 450 freed slaves to Haiti resulting in disaster. The former slaves were struck by smallpox and starvation, and survivors had to be rescued.
Mr Lincoln also considered sending freed slaves to what is now Panama, to construct a canal — decades before work began on the modern canal there in 1904.
The colonisation plan collapsed by 1864. The British were fearful the confederate states of the American south may win the civil war, reverse emancipation, and regard British agents as thieves. Congress also voted to remove funding.
Yet as late as that autumn, a letter sent to the president by his attorney-general showed he was still actively exploring whether the policy could be implemented, Mr Page said.
“It says ‘further to your question, yes, I think you can still pursue this policy of colonisation even though the money has been taken away’,” he said.
Mr Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865.
Mash
Phillip Magness and Sebastian Page, the authors of Colonisation After Emancipation, discovered documents in the National Archives in Kew and in the US that will significantly alter his legacy.
They found an order from Mr Lincoln in June 1863 authorising a British colonial agent, John Hodge, to recruit freed slaves to be sent to colonies in what are now the countries of Guyana and Belize.
“Hodge reported back to a British minister that Lincoln said it was his ‘honest desire’ that this emigration went ahead,” said Mr Page, a historian at Oxford University.
The plan came despite an earlier test shipment of about 450 freed slaves to Haiti resulting in disaster. The former slaves were struck by smallpox and starvation, and survivors had to be rescued.
Mr Lincoln also considered sending freed slaves to what is now Panama, to construct a canal — decades before work began on the modern canal there in 1904.
The colonisation plan collapsed by 1864. The British were fearful the confederate states of the American south may win the civil war, reverse emancipation, and regard British agents as thieves. Congress also voted to remove funding.
Yet as late as that autumn, a letter sent to the president by his attorney-general showed he was still actively exploring whether the policy could be implemented, Mr Page said.
“It says ‘further to your question, yes, I think you can still pursue this policy of colonisation even though the money has been taken away’,” he said.
Mr Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 5:28 pm to Crimson Wraith
Slavery was the main root "cause" of the civil war. Lincoln did everything he could to hide it well into 1863 when the abolishionist were gaining popularity. Then the momentum swung in their favor and he penned the emancipation proclaimation.
He tried to keep slavery out of the war because he really needed states like Kentucky to fight for the union and condemning slavery would have lost those fringe states.
He tried to keep slavery out of the war because he really needed states like Kentucky to fight for the union and condemning slavery would have lost those fringe states.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 5:40 pm to Crimson Wraith
My oldest great-grandparents, when alive, told us kids that we did NOT own slaves in the 1800's and only a very few did. There were plantation owners that owned slaves, not the average southerner in Louisiana. My ancestors in Mer Rouge and Bastrop, La. raised chickens and pigs for a living. Food for themselves and the public. It later led to grocery stores for nearly 100 years. Most people did not have slaves, only the very rich and they were Democrats too, not Republicans.
Posted on 8/20/17 at 7:46 pm to Crimson Wraith
quote:
Mr Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865.
Unfortunately 3 years too late.
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