Wednesday, January 24, 2018
RE IMMIGRATION HISTORY DK POST
Reading this post, and other things, you might suppose or infer that white Southerners immediately took rough control of the defeated South and impudently slapped manacles back on their slaves in defiance of their defeat and Lincoln's Proclamation.
There were the codes, which were whig interpreted as a new and heinous form of servitude for suddenly freed negroes. Some laws had to be enforced for such an unprecedented situation.
Actually the position of Southern whites, all of them, after the war, was very similar to how FDR, and especially Morgenthau, wanted, intended, and actually for a time treated defeated Nazis (most of the people in authority with experience in government by then) after WWII: they were excluded by Northern troops from any positions of any authority in their own states, political and economic exiles in their own land, strangers in a strange land.
Only after Reconstruction did whites recover positions of authority and begin oppressing their erstwhile freed negro masters. Folks like Professor Kaiser like to refer to this period, their pet period, Jim Crow, heading into the Gilded Age, another favorite, and try to stay away from Reconstruction except to give it a Whig interpretation in passing.
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