Originally Posted by Birdwatcher
Originally Posted by JoeBob
Lincoln's entire career from his very first political speech revolved around instituting a national bank, a tariff system, and industrial subsidies. It was known as the American System.

Seriously, read up on it.


I will, thanks, tho it would prob'ly be boring as all get out.

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So, was he genuinely anti-slavery, or was he merely interested in breaking the South so that he could institute his system? His statements on blacks and his intention to deport them to the wilds of Africa seems to indicate t hat he wasn't altruistically interested in the welfare of the black man.


More'n a few people of all intentions had long believed Blacks and Whites could never coexist, so Lincoln's intended deportations don't tell us much.

Even if that had been his stated intention all along I'd STILL take up arms on the Union side. Chattel slavery alone was toxic, and poisoned all it touched.

Birdwatcher


A fool's errand. More slaves were imported to Brazil than the US. Slavery was even more entrenched there than in the US and conditions were far harsher. And slaves were imported there until 1856. Yet, by 1888 slavery was dead in Brazil where an ordered system of compensated emancipation was put into place.

There was no hugely bloody war. No history of recriminations and resentments. Today, Brazil is immensely racially integrated with there being few purely white or black persons in the whole country.

But, of course, that could have never happened here. But, then again, in 1800 slavery was legal in practically every country in the western world and hugely entrenched in all of the Americas. By 1900 is was legal practically nowhere in the western world and in only one country was a war "necessary" to accomplish that end.