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Washington, DC freed its slaves on this day in 1862. Hooray for Emancipation!
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:36 am
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:36 am
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A great day.
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On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to a conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called "the national shame" of slavery in the nation's capital. It provided for immediate emancipation, compensation to former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 for each person choosing emigration. Over the next 9 months, the Board of Commissioners appointed to administer the act approved 930 petitions, completely or in part, from former owners for the freedom of 2,989 former slaves.
Although its combination of emancipation, compensation to owners, and colonization did not serve as a model for the future, the District of Columbia Emancipation Act was an early signal of slavery's death. In the District itself, African Americans greeted emancipation with great jubilation. For many years afterward, they celebrated Emancipation Day on April 16 with parades and festivals.
A great day.
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Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:39 am to GetCocky11
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compensation to former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 for each person choosing emigration
So if they offered this to slave owners in the South, would things have been a little different?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:41 am to GetCocky11
Thanks Republicans
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:43 am to bad93ex
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So if they offered this to slave owners in the South, would things have been a little different?
Compensated emancipation had been attempted before and blocked by southerners.
The only reason why it was able to pass this time is because southern legislators weren't around to block it.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:54 am to bad93ex
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So if they offered this to slave owners in the South, would things have been a little different?
That and stop placing outrageous tariffs on cotton to make it more lucrative for southern plantations to have slave labor in order to offset that expense. If cooler heads would have prevailed, perhaps they could have transitioned the southern economy without the need to burn it all to the ground. There were a lot of enormous egos and political/economic power struggles going on back then that often gets ignored.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 7:55 am to GetCocky11
Nice! African countries didn’t outlaw slavery until the 20th century. Mauritania was the last holdout in 1981.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:03 am to blueboy
In his initial draft of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson condemned the injustice of the slave trade and, by implication, slavery, but he also blamed the presence of enslaved Africans in North America on avaricious British colonial policies. Jefferson thus acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of the enslaved, while at the same time he absolved Americans of any responsibility for owning slaves themselves.
Nevertheless, the Founders, with the exception of those from South Carolina and Georgia, exhibited considerable aversion to slavery during the era of the Articles of Confederation (1781–89) by prohibiting the importation of foreign slaves to individual states and lending their support to a proposal by Jefferson to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Nevertheless, the Founders, with the exception of those from South Carolina and Georgia, exhibited considerable aversion to slavery during the era of the Articles of Confederation (1781–89) by prohibiting the importation of foreign slaves to individual states and lending their support to a proposal by Jefferson to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:05 am to GetCocky11
So today is now a new holiday known as Aprilth?
Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:08 am to Corinthians420
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Jefferson thus acknowledged that slavery violated the natural rights of the enslaved, while at the same time he absolved Americans of any responsibility for owning slaves themselves.
Jefferson spent so much of his life in debt, he needed his slaves.
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Nevertheless, the Founders, with the exception of those from South Carolina and Georgia, exhibited considerable aversion to slavery during the era of the Articles of Confederation (1781–89) by prohibiting the importation of foreign slaves to individual states and lending their support to a proposal by Jefferson to ban slavery in the Northwest Territory.
If the cotton gin had been invented 20 years earlier, I wonder what the Founders would have believed.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 8:11 am to GetCocky11
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the cotton gin had been invented 20 years earlier, I wonder what the Founders would have believed.
Same as OTL. Talk a good game as long as it doesn't cost them anything.
Hell, look at all the celebrity SJWs who endorse Nike today.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:04 am to GetCocky11
the import of african slaves was the biggest mistake in american history, on multiple fronts. First and foremost the obvious moral reasons (although it was viewed differently then but still). Added to that I dont think we see alot of the "cultural" issues we see today had it not happened. I know the economy at the time would have struggled and everything without it but I cant help but wonder how different american society would look if 13% of the population wasnt angry and bitter at everything.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 9:08 am
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:11 am to GetCocky11
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If the cotton gin had been invented 20 years earlier, I wonder what the Founders would have believed.
Its obvious they would have disagreed, as they did on many things
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:17 am to Pedro
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I know the economy at the time would have struggled
The north had a more robust economy without slaves. Who knows what the economy of the south would have been if African slaves never stepped foot in North America.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:22 am to LB84
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The north had a more robust economy without slaves.
They had scores of cheap labor with the massive amount of immigration from the old world. Factory life may have been slightly better than working in the cotton fields but entire families would be working in those factories.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:25 am to bad93ex
Reparations could stimulate the economy
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:33 am to GetCocky11
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A great day.
Too early in the day to be pissing of the OT racists baw.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:45 am to GetCocky11
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Hooray for Emancipation!
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A great day.
Perhaps I’m misreading, but I detect a level of sarcasm in your post. If so, it’s pretty sad and disturbing not only that you would post such, but that you feel like and in fact do have an audience on this forum that is receptive to it.
This is ultimately a message board for LSU sports, the one with the largest following being football where the majority of players who we cheer for on Saturdays are black and likely descended from persons who were enslaved. Therefore, It’s pretty damn hypocritical that we would allow the OPs attitude to not only be posted unchallenged here, but actually flourish on this site.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. bullshite like this, and the Jane Goodall and yogi memes are wrong. They are thinly-veiled racism and good people shouldn’t abide it. I’m sure this will be met with the typical reactionary canned responses throwing around buzzwords like “white guilt”, “moderate” “melt” or “cuck” - but as an LSU fan, an American and a Christian I can’t continue to allow this aggression to go unchecked.
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:51 am to nicholastiger
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Reparations could stimulate the economy
If it ever comes close to actually passing a reparations bill, I'm opening a Rim/Liquor store
Posted on 4/16/24 at 9:54 am to bad93ex
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They had scores of cheap labor with the massive amount of immigration from the old world. Factory life may have been slightly better than working in the cotton fields but entire families would be working in those factories.
Are the descendants of Irish, German, British, and French that came over in the 1830s and 1840s causing the problem we see in modern day America?
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 11:21 am
Posted on 4/16/24 at 10:20 am to lsusa
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Perhaps I’m misreading, but I detect a level of sarcasm in your post. If so, it’s pretty sad and disturbing not only that you would post such, but that you feel like and in fact do have an audience on this forum that is receptive to it.
This is ultimately a message board for LSU sports, the one with the largest following being football where the majority of players who we cheer for on Saturdays are black and likely descended from persons who were enslaved. Therefore, It’s pretty damn hypocritical that we would allow the OPs attitude to not only be posted unchallenged here, but actually flourish on this site.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. bullshite like this, and the Jane Goodall and yogi memes are wrong. They are thinly-veiled racism and good people shouldn’t abide it. I’m sure this will be met with the typical reactionary canned responses throwing around buzzwords like “white guilt”, “moderate” “melt” or “cuck” - but as an LSU fan, an American and a Christian I can’t continue to allow this aggression to go unchecked.
There are a lot of bitter and jaded folks on here that have given up on standing up for what is "right" and would rather just bitch about what's wrong.
This post was edited on 4/16/24 at 10:21 am
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