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I found this interesting article about the Forrest being promoted as one of the "First Civil Rights Leaders" by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. It a good short articles to links from where he got his information on Forrest comments...
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In an 1869 newspaper interview with a reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal, Forrest also disclosed a financial interest in the Wanderer, the so-called "last American slave ship" that brought some 400 enslaved Africans to the U.S. in 1858, decades after the U.S. had outlawed the importation of slaves. (Read article here.)
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Looking at Forrest's background, it's undisputed that Forrest had been a wealthy slave owner and slave trader. A Memphis City Directory ad from the mid-1850s for his company, Forrest & Maples, lists "Negroes Sold On Commission," promising "the highest market price always paid on good stock."
snip... He was trying to get captive labor...
"He wasn't trying to lead a civil rights movement," Wills said in a telephone interview with NewsChannel 5. "He was trying to figure out how to get his world back into some semblance of order and control."
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"I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all on the subject," he responded. But the right to vote had been taken from the Confederates. With that in mind, Forrest added, "If the negroes vote to enfranchise us I do not think I would favor their disenfranchisement. We will stand by those who help us. And here I want you to understand distinctly, I am not an enemy to the negro. We want him here among us. He is the only laboring class we have." (Read article here.)
snip... Forrest suggested move slave ships...
Forrest suggested that the slave ships could be sent back across the Atlantic in search of Africans to work the fields of the South. They are "the most imitative creatures in the world, and if you put them in squads of ten, with one experienced leader in each squad, they soon will revive our country." He explained that "the prisoners taken in war over there can all be turned over to us and emigrate and be freemen here." (Read article here.)
snip... From Gen. Pillow...
"My advice would be to discard all partisan views, to disband all colored political organizations. It was these colored political organizations -- in hostility to the white race of the south -- that produced the color-line of the white race of the south."
There is more in the article about Black Labor in the south... and if the Republicans had embraced the White southerners instead of politics of race.
Fact Check: Was Nathan Bedford Forrest A...
Tennessee state Rep. Andy Holt recently wrote ablog postand newspaper columnin which he described Nathan Bedford Forrest as "one of the South's first civil rights leaders" - a notion that has also been pushed by the Sons of
www.newschannel5.com
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In an 1869 newspaper interview with a reporter from the Louisville Courier-Journal, Forrest also disclosed a financial interest in the Wanderer, the so-called "last American slave ship" that brought some 400 enslaved Africans to the U.S. in 1858, decades after the U.S. had outlawed the importation of slaves. (Read article here.)
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Looking at Forrest's background, it's undisputed that Forrest had been a wealthy slave owner and slave trader. A Memphis City Directory ad from the mid-1850s for his company, Forrest & Maples, lists "Negroes Sold On Commission," promising "the highest market price always paid on good stock."
snip... He was trying to get captive labor...
"He wasn't trying to lead a civil rights movement," Wills said in a telephone interview with NewsChannel 5. "He was trying to figure out how to get his world back into some semblance of order and control."
snip...
"I am opposed to it under any and all circumstances, and in our convention urged our party not to commit themselves at all on the subject," he responded. But the right to vote had been taken from the Confederates. With that in mind, Forrest added, "If the negroes vote to enfranchise us I do not think I would favor their disenfranchisement. We will stand by those who help us. And here I want you to understand distinctly, I am not an enemy to the negro. We want him here among us. He is the only laboring class we have." (Read article here.)
snip... Forrest suggested move slave ships...
Forrest suggested that the slave ships could be sent back across the Atlantic in search of Africans to work the fields of the South. They are "the most imitative creatures in the world, and if you put them in squads of ten, with one experienced leader in each squad, they soon will revive our country." He explained that "the prisoners taken in war over there can all be turned over to us and emigrate and be freemen here." (Read article here.)
snip... From Gen. Pillow...
"My advice would be to discard all partisan views, to disband all colored political organizations. It was these colored political organizations -- in hostility to the white race of the south -- that produced the color-line of the white race of the south."
There is more in the article about Black Labor in the south... and if the Republicans had embraced the White southerners instead of politics of race.