The south never owned a slave ship and all slaves were imported in the North and then sent south for sale. Thats like blaming car deaths on Detroit or Oranges on Florida. Gen Grant owned slaves during the Civil war.all slaves were bought from northern businessmen and taxed by the US Government.
Boston was the hub of slave trading.
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Grant had slaves until the end of the war. Gen. Robert E. Lee freed his years before the war. There were more slaves in the north in the years prior to the Civil war than there were in the south.
Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Horace greeley stated that "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery"
Read it here:http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm
The Civil War wasn't at all about slavery. it was about preserving the Union. When Lincoln saw that the war was being lost 2 years after the start of the war...then he "freed" the slaves.
General Robert E. Lee, a confidant of jefferson Davis (Confederate president) told Jeff davis to free the slaves before the oncoming war or else it would go down in history as a war to free the slaves instead of a war for states rights. Davis was stubborn and did not want to do that. And so there the biggest blunder in history was made.
Today, school books tell us that the Civil war was a war to free the slaves and the south has the stigma of being slave holder states.
Rarely do you read that the North was just as bad or even worse. Even former slaves who fled to the north found out that they weren't wanted there either. Most of the free slaves went to Canada.
And the "great emancipator" Abraham Lincoln?
He hated that title.
JP
The actual hub for slavery was Rhode Island and the most infamous slave trader was who Brown University is named after a "Ivy League Liberal Arts College". The Civil war was not fought simply because of slavery. It was mostly fought due to the norths move to an industrial society and the souths opposition of wanting to remain a agricultural society. Hence causing the war of northern aggression AKA the civil war. Slavery was simply a way to get backing from the majority of Northerners who were opposed to slavery because of their view on human rights at the time.
In fact many southerners did not even own slaves during the time of the civil war. There were more blacks who owned slaves in states like Louisiana during the time of civil war than whites. Racist inhumane ignorance is the stigma that people of the south are now stuck with due to others who do not read history books and like to feel better than their fellow southern american citizens.
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Actually, it was initially New York City.
Your generalization re: ALL were imported to the North is wrong. Many came into Charleston, SC and other Southern ports.
Maggie - your position is ludicrous.
And to all who call "it" "The War of Southern Secession" or "The War of Northern Aggression" - they were rats jumping ship thinking they'd be better off - they could keep their slaves. Lincoln precipitated the treason simply by being elected.
They (South) started it - they had NO legal basis to support them and it's actually The War of Southern Aggression. Who did what first?
I'm sick of everybody postulating b.s. theories under the guise of patriotic devotion to a Country that was NOT a sovereign nation.
In short - traitors.
Anonymous
Truth be told, and it seldom is, places like Chicago, Detroit, etc. are more racist than the south is. In fact, during the '70's, there were many studies done on this very topic that came to this very conclusion.
You don't hear people make reference to blacks selling blacks anymore. It's taboo! But even during the 1990's, Louis Farrakhan made comment to the fact that blacks still sell blacks into slavery in Africa. Especially around the Ivory Coast.
Next time you look at the New York City flag, tell me what you see on it? Black people picking cotton. Image if that same imagine was on a flag from Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, etc. We wouldn't hear the end of it!
Anonymous
Sounds more like a comment than a question. Why is the south called racist? Because it is. (Not every person, but the majority.) The Jim Crow laws took MUCH longer to die in the south. A lot more lynchings happened in the south. Whites working for civil rights were murdered in the south. Yeah, at one time the whole country was racist and that's what you're referring to, then people gradually got a clue. Of course it's easier to get a clue when your whole livelihood ISN'T based on slavery. The northerners weren't better people, they just weren't growing cotton and sugar cane they couldn't harvest themselves. (The surviving slaves were stronger and more resistant to disease than the whites and they were cheaply bought.) You're right though implying the Civil War was not about slavery. It was about states' rights.