Brett you may be right about the technical details but the Civil War was absolutely about slavery. And the Black Codes shortly thereafter criminalized not having a job so that newly freed blacks would be sent to prison and then used as free convict labor. Black communities who found success like in Tulsa were destroyed by whites. And the…
Brett you may be right about the technical details but the Civil War was absolutely about slavery. And the Black Codes shortly thereafter criminalized not having a job so that newly freed blacks would be sent to prison and then used as free convict labor. Black communities who found success like in Tulsa were destroyed by whites. And then we have Jim Crow which was still on the books when I was born and lynchings and racial terror. I hope you can reflect on these things.
Oh, I am absolutely aware of efforts to get around the 13th and 14th amendments, but if the Civil War had come to the same conclusion, the Emancipation Proclamation still issued by Lincoln but the 13th amendment not passed and ratified none of those things would have occurred because those people would still be slaves. The federal government is only allowed to intervene in a state's sovereignty if there is violation of a constitutional right. The Emancipation Proclamation would eventually be overturned by federal courts and slavery would have persisted in those states that chose it. The Union's position was unconstitutional and Lincoln knew it.
Brett you may be right about the technical details but the Civil War was absolutely about slavery. And the Black Codes shortly thereafter criminalized not having a job so that newly freed blacks would be sent to prison and then used as free convict labor. Black communities who found success like in Tulsa were destroyed by whites. And then we have Jim Crow which was still on the books when I was born and lynchings and racial terror. I hope you can reflect on these things.
Oh, I am absolutely aware of efforts to get around the 13th and 14th amendments, but if the Civil War had come to the same conclusion, the Emancipation Proclamation still issued by Lincoln but the 13th amendment not passed and ratified none of those things would have occurred because those people would still be slaves. The federal government is only allowed to intervene in a state's sovereignty if there is violation of a constitutional right. The Emancipation Proclamation would eventually be overturned by federal courts and slavery would have persisted in those states that chose it. The Union's position was unconstitutional and Lincoln knew it.