BBC Whig interpretation, let's get real.
Trying to make out only Southerners and Germans as white racists.....
Northern whites treated the South like a fricking African colony down there. They didn't want those negroes to come North. They didn't want any more negroes period. They didn't want the ones they already had!
Guess what: About half of Northern whites were Germanic descent, and migrated here contemporaneously with the German colonization in Africa..
The rest were white racists from other European countries. France, Holland, you name it. Mostly paddies.
How do you think paddies felt about free negroes?
How many free negroes were welcomed in Ireland or the pubs of Dublin or Belfast?
The Republican Party was certainly founded on white Northern racism, and the issue of slavery alone.
Certainly Northern white racist fear mongering was what swept Lincoln into office and into the Civil War.
Here is DK, on Tocqueville, on Northern white racism prior to the time of the Civil War by decades:
DK ON TOCQUEVILLE NORTHERN WHITE RACISM CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR
' "...race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in states where slavery was never known."(AT) Even in the northern states where black citizens theoretically enjoyed equal rights, he reported, they were too afraid to assert them. Those states that had abolished slavery had done so not to help the black man, but to help the white, both by leaving free labor without the competition of slaves and by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon the whites.' DK, 2016
I will just add a footnote here, to this prior post passage reprinted above.
Those Northern states that had abolished slavery had done so not only not to help the black man, and to help the white, and not only by leaving free white labor without slave competition, and not only by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon whites, but, much more importantly, they did not want negroes around, free or slave, in the North or anywhere else in America.
That is really what Tocqueville had meant in 1830, in the passage DK quoted.
The Northern cause in the Civil War was supposed, according to the electorate, to result in the transportation, not the immediate, or the gradual, assimilation of negroes, slave or free.
They got screwed in every way. The only good, temporary, thing, for them, was that the Radical Republican Party kept the freed negroes in puppet control of only the South, not the North.
Trying to make out only Southerners and Germans as white racists.....
Northern whites treated the South like a fricking African colony down there. They didn't want those negroes to come North. They didn't want any more negroes period. They didn't want the ones they already had!
Guess what: About half of Northern whites were Germanic descent, and migrated here contemporaneously with the German colonization in Africa..
The rest were white racists from other European countries. France, Holland, you name it. Mostly paddies.
How do you think paddies felt about free negroes?
How many free negroes were welcomed in Ireland or the pubs of Dublin or Belfast?
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
RE IMMIGRATION HISTORY DK POST
"...For the new party, the spread of slavery, rather than the growth of immigration, was the main threat to free laborers in the North...." DK
Certainly Northern white racist fear mongering was what swept Lincoln into office and into the Civil War.
Here is DK, on Tocqueville, on Northern white racism prior to the time of the Civil War by decades:
DK ON TOCQUEVILLE NORTHERN WHITE RACISM CAUSE OF CIVIL WAR
' "...race prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in states where slavery was never known."(AT) Even in the northern states where black citizens theoretically enjoyed equal rights, he reported, they were too afraid to assert them. Those states that had abolished slavery had done so not to help the black man, but to help the white, both by leaving free labor without the competition of slaves and by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon the whites.' DK, 2016
I will just add a footnote here, to this prior post passage reprinted above.
Those Northern states that had abolished slavery had done so not only not to help the black man, and to help the white, and not only by leaving free white labor without slave competition, and not only by eliminating the corrupting influence of owning slaves upon whites, but, much more importantly, they did not want negroes around, free or slave, in the North or anywhere else in America.
That is really what Tocqueville had meant in 1830, in the passage DK quoted.
The Northern cause in the Civil War was supposed, according to the electorate, to result in the transportation, not the immediate, or the gradual, assimilation of negroes, slave or free.
They got screwed in every way. The only good, temporary, thing, for them, was that the Radical Republican Party kept the freed negroes in puppet control of only the South, not the North.
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