5fish
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I like to point out the Lincoln at one time wanted to ship the slaves back to Africa(Liberia). I like to point out that Grant tried to buy the Dominican Republic so to ship many of the newly freed slaves there. I like to point out is that a new state should have been created for the newly free slaves of the south to live and proposer in. It was not particle to ship millions of newly freed slaves back to Africa(Liberia) but creating a new state was well within our nation grasp to do.
I argue we should have created Freemen state from the other southern states like West Virginia was created from out of Virginia or take one of the existing Southern states like Alabama rename it New Alabama and make it a new Freemen state. Either way, the newly free slaves would have had their own free state. It would have given them a safe place to live and political power in one stroke of a pen.
If the newly freemen having their own state think of some of the ramifications, I doubt there would have been the 14th and 15th amendments to our Constitution. All those early Civil Rights laws of the 1870s would most likely have never become law. The White Militia in the south may never have risen up because most of the newly freemen would have immigrated to the newly created state for them. If you think about it separate but equal would have been the unspoken law of the land. I bet every-time there would have been talked about equality for Black Americans the opponents would say "they have their own state".
Even if a new state would not have been carved out of the south there was land in the west that could have been used to create the free state of Lincoln. I am surprised this idea never crossed the minds of politicians back in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Just think if the politicians following the Civil War would have created the free state of Lincoln... How everything would have changed in America?...
amusing...
I argue we should have created Freemen state from the other southern states like West Virginia was created from out of Virginia or take one of the existing Southern states like Alabama rename it New Alabama and make it a new Freemen state. Either way, the newly free slaves would have had their own free state. It would have given them a safe place to live and political power in one stroke of a pen.
If the newly freemen having their own state think of some of the ramifications, I doubt there would have been the 14th and 15th amendments to our Constitution. All those early Civil Rights laws of the 1870s would most likely have never become law. The White Militia in the south may never have risen up because most of the newly freemen would have immigrated to the newly created state for them. If you think about it separate but equal would have been the unspoken law of the land. I bet every-time there would have been talked about equality for Black Americans the opponents would say "they have their own state".
Even if a new state would not have been carved out of the south there was land in the west that could have been used to create the free state of Lincoln. I am surprised this idea never crossed the minds of politicians back in the late 1860s and early 1870s. Just think if the politicians following the Civil War would have created the free state of Lincoln... How everything would have changed in America?...
amusing...
