Dylan Matthews...slavery and revolution...
"...The revolutionaries understood this. Indeed, a desire to preserve slavery helped fuel Southern support for the war. In 1775, after the war had begun in Massachusetts, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of Virginia, offered the slaves of rebels freedom if they came and fought for the British cause. Eric Herschthal, a PhD student in history at Columbia, notes that the proclamation united white Virginians behind the rebel effort. He quotes Philip Fithian, who was traveling through Virginia when the proclamation was made, saying, "The Inhabitants of this Colony are deeply alarmed at this infernal Scheme. It seems to quicken all in Revolution to overpower him at any Risk." Anger at Dunmore's emancipation ran so deep that Thomas Jefferson included it as a grievance in a draft of the Declaration of Independence. That's right: the declaration could've included "they're conscripting our slaves" as a reason for independence." DM
The very last thing the colonial rebel founding fathers, especially Jefferson, wanted was for their slaves to be queered by the British....
There has been a lot of bullshit about the Declaration etc holding these truths to be self evident, originalist, sola scriptura.
Don't believe a word of it.
Lincoln didn't, either. Look at the debates with Douglas....
He ran on eliminating negroes as a threat, bottom line. He didn't want or need em as a labor force, either....
The language in The Declaration made it a lot easier to sell to liberal, civil libertarian, but terrified northern whites, men women and children (scared shitless of the idea of negroes).
Radical Republicans then jammed them up only Southern whites' asses.
They would never have dreamed of doing that to Northern whites, say sanction wholesale negro immigration to Northern states, (Dylan Matthews type counterfactual) or they would have been not only out of office, but also lynched en masse, that night, baby.
"...The revolutionaries understood this. Indeed, a desire to preserve slavery helped fuel Southern support for the war. In 1775, after the war had begun in Massachusetts, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of Virginia, offered the slaves of rebels freedom if they came and fought for the British cause. Eric Herschthal, a PhD student in history at Columbia, notes that the proclamation united white Virginians behind the rebel effort. He quotes Philip Fithian, who was traveling through Virginia when the proclamation was made, saying, "The Inhabitants of this Colony are deeply alarmed at this infernal Scheme. It seems to quicken all in Revolution to overpower him at any Risk." Anger at Dunmore's emancipation ran so deep that Thomas Jefferson included it as a grievance in a draft of the Declaration of Independence. That's right: the declaration could've included "they're conscripting our slaves" as a reason for independence." DM
The very last thing the colonial rebel founding fathers, especially Jefferson, wanted was for their slaves to be queered by the British....
There has been a lot of bullshit about the Declaration etc holding these truths to be self evident, originalist, sola scriptura.
Don't believe a word of it.
Lincoln didn't, either. Look at the debates with Douglas....
Thursday, March 30, 2017
ABRAHAM LINCOLN FROM THE LINCOLN DOUGLAS 4th DEBATE
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,-- that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifyling them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality." AL. See also 1st Debate, Unexpurgated, p 63.
1864, Lincoln's Law:
Lincoln’s law was then moved forward by Senator John Sherman of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. The committee shared Lincoln’s belief that the encouragement of immigration was of the highest importance and in their report stated that “labor has special wants in every department of industry; vacancies caused by recruiting calls for a large increase in foreign immigration to make up the deficiency at home. Furthermore, the South, after the war is over, will present a wide field for voluntary white labor and it must look to the immigrant for its supply.”
1864, Lincoln's Law:
Lincoln’s law was then moved forward by Senator John Sherman of Ohio, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture. The committee shared Lincoln’s belief that the encouragement of immigration was of the highest importance and in their report stated that “labor has special wants in every department of industry; vacancies caused by recruiting calls for a large increase in foreign immigration to make up the deficiency at home. Furthermore, the South, after the war is over, will present a wide field for voluntary white labor and it must look to the immigrant for its supply.”
He ran on eliminating negroes as a threat, bottom line. He didn't want or need em as a labor force, either....
The language in The Declaration made it a lot easier to sell to liberal, civil libertarian, but terrified northern whites, men women and children (scared shitless of the idea of negroes).
Radical Republicans then jammed them up only Southern whites' asses.
They would never have dreamed of doing that to Northern whites, say sanction wholesale negro immigration to Northern states, (Dylan Matthews type counterfactual) or they would have been not only out of office, but also lynched en masse, that night, baby.
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