- "Contrarily, Confederate General Robert E. Lee freed his slaves (which he never purchased - they were inherited) in 1862!!!"
Lie. He was forced to free the slaves as this was stated in the last will of his wife's father. He was supposed to do so within 5 years, which meant that he could free them immediately if he had wished to. Instead, he chose to use them during the whole 5 years. The guy who wrote this text is trying to have people believe that Lee freed the slaves of his own free will. Shameful.
It wasn't until the South decided to leave the Union that the North objected. [...] Lastly, and most importantly, why did NORTHERN States outlaw slavery only AFTER the war was over?
Revisionist nonsense.
- 1755: the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting ordered that members who imported slaves or purchased them locally should be admonished.
- 1777: Slavery is partially banned in Vermont.
- 1780: Pennsylvania passes An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, freeing future children of slaves. Those born prior to the Act remain enslaved for life. The Act becomes a model for other Northern states. Last slaves freed 1847
- 1783: New Hampshire begins a gradual abolition of slavery. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules slavery unconstitutional, a decision based on the 1780 Massachusetts constitution. All slaves are immediately freed.
- 1787: Slavery is made illegal in the Northwest Territory.
- 1804: New Jersey begins a gradual abolition of slavery, freeing future children of slaves.[35] Those born prior to the Act remain enslaved for life.
- 1820: The Missouri Compromise bans slavery north of the southern boundary of Missouri.
It is very important to keep in mind that the Confederate Battle Flag was simply just that. A battle flag.
Stupid and shameful statement. War, as Clausewitz said, is a mere continuation of politics by other means.
A very interesting fact on slavery is that at the time the War of 1861 -1865 officially commenced, the Southern States were actually in the process of freeing all slaves in the South. Russia had freed it's servants in 1859, and the South took great note of this. Had military intervention not been forced upon the South, a very different America would have been realized then as well as now.
And yet they seceded to defend their "peculiar institution"? They were probably stupid.
The Confederate Army was comprised of rich slave owners.
Who said something like that? Do you seriously believe that anyone said that all soldiers of the Confederate Army were rich? Lmao. No, but it's a fact that 1/3 of their soldiers owned slaves or came from slave-owning families, and half of their officer owned slaves.
IN NO WAY does the Confederate Flag represent hate or violence.
WTF. War is not violence now? Such nonsense.
Many blacks, both free and of their own will, joined the Confederate Army to fight for their beloved Southern home.
OMG. The difference is that in the North they were free, while in the South they were slaves. On March 13, 1865,the Confederate Congress passed a bill to enlist black men, but the bill never said that they would obtain their freedom. Now you might be able to find some slaves who fought with the Union, and some free African Americans who fought for the South, but you can't dismiss the main idea: While the North started giving their liberty to slaves who enlisted in the army decades before the American Civil War, the South enlisted slaves.
These Federals were ones that ended up crying the loudest about slavery. But without their ships, many of the slaves would have never arrived here. They made countless fortunes on the delivery of slaves as well as the products madefrom raw materials such as cotton and tobacco in the South.
That's probably true, at least until the importation of Africans was banned. But it's not because some people in the North were guilty and made profits from slavery that the South is less guilty. Nobody claimed that the North was perfect.
. Many Northern civilians owned slaves. Prior to, during and even after the War Of Northern Aggression.
It's true that some Union states allowed slavery, the 5 of them had a border with the South and 4 of them were under the Mason-Dixon line. Actual northern states, however, had very few slaves. According to the
1790 census, 94 percent of the 698,000 U.S. slaves lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. Missouri was the only slave state above the Mason-Dixon line.
