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Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne
And let's also realize that most of those people were white men. Some of them were black, some Indian, some hispanic.
Let's also understand that of all the slave owners, over 3000 of them were black.
I'm not sure when it turned into a racial thing. Perhaps it was that way from the beginning, or maybe it turned that way later on. I don't know.
You are right, Feerd. The wrongs were real, but reality needs to be realized.
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H1, by and large slavery in 1865 was a race issue. sure you can point to any number of exceptions to the rule. but that does NOT disprove the rule.
Slavery was a race issue. When slavery ended, free blacks where met with suspision, fear, rage and violence...
because they were black. There blackness was the distinguishing feature.
while a very small number of people owned slaves the entirety of the United States of America, before the war, allowed black slavery to exist.
The founding fathers
knew that the great hole in the American experiment was slavery. they knew that his was one of the major problems and many held their breaths waiting for the time when it would break the Union.
Andrew Jackson spent his entire political carreer trying to put off the collision over the issue of slavery.
This is part of the problem
White people try to downplay the reality of racism in America and it seems at least in some quarters, some African Americans are trying to down play the gains that have been made in the last 40 years.
We talk past each other, never giving ear to the reality of each's experience.
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