I know it's long but please bare with me or skip down to the
recap...
North Wins Civil War on Slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation now applies to Southern enslaved folks
5 days later - Lincoln Assassinated
Presidency falls to a Southern Racist.
Mind you up until 1864 Hannibal Hamlin was Lincoln's VP and would have been made President but for the 1864 election,
Hamlin was
replaced as Vice Presidential nominee by Andrew Johnson, a Southern Democrat chosen for his appeal to Southern Unionists.
Andrew Johnson, the former senator from and current military governor of Tennessee, was named as
Lincoln's vice presidential running-
mate. The choice of Andrew Johnson as
Lincoln's running mate was a politically calculated move by the Republican Party to ensure the
electoral votes of the border states.
Hamlin was no abolitionist but was certainly "left" of Lincoln.
Lincoln and the Democratic party chose to put a Southern Racist in office over Hamlin.
In 1865 President Andrew Johnson implemented a plan of
Reconstruction that gave the white South a free hand in regulating the transition from slavery to freedom and offered no role to blacks in the politics of the South.
The end of the Civil War found the nation without a settled Reconstruction policy.
In May 1865, President Andrew Johnson offered a pardon to all white Southerners except Confederate leaders and wealthy planters (although most of these later received individual pardons), and authorized them to create new governments.
Blacks were denied any role in the process. Johnson also ordered nearly all the land in the hands of the government returned to its prewar owners -- dashing black hope for economic autonomy.
NOTE:
After the
Civil War broke out, abolitionists such as
Frederick Douglass argued that the enlistment of black soldiers would help the North win the war and would be a huge step in the fight for equal rights: “Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letters, U.S.; let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket,” Douglass said, “and there is no power on earth which can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.” However, this is just what President Lincoln was afraid of: He worried that arming African Americans, particularly former or escaped slaves, would push the loyal border states to secede. This, in turn, would make it almost impossible for the Union to win the war.
However, after two grueling years of war, President Lincoln began to reconsider his position on black soldiers. The war did not appear to be anywhere near an end, and the Union Army badly needed soldiers. White volunteers were dwindling in number, and African-Americans were more eager to fight than ever.
The Second Confiscation and Militia Act of July 17, 1862, was the first step toward the enlistment of African Americans in the Union Army. It did not explicitly invite blacks to join the fight, but it did authorize the president “to employ as many persons of African descent as he may deem necessary and proper for the suppression of this rebellion…in such manner as he may judge best for the public welfare.”
Some blacks took this as their cue to begin forming infantry units of their own. African Americans from
New Orleans formed three National Guard units: the First, Second and Third
Louisiana Native Guard. (These became the 73rd, 74th and 75th United States Colored Infantry.) The First
Kansas Colored Infantry (later the 79th United States Colored Infantry) fought in the October 1862 skirmish at Island Mound,
Missouri. And the First
South Carolina Infantry, African Descent (later the 33rd United States Colored Infantry) went on its first expedition in November 1862. These unofficial regiments were officially mustered into service in January 1863.
So to recap...
Blacks were essential in winning the War for the North only to be betrayed in the end.
Lincoln and the Democrats / North made no final plans for Reconstruction...but Hello 40 Acres and a Mule!
Lincoln and the Democrats / North elect a Southern Racist as Vice President, for political gains in the South.
Exactly 5 days after the war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and a Southern Racist is the President of the United States of America....and Goodbye 40 Acres and a Mule!
The Southern Racist IMMEDIATELY paves the way for Jim Crow.
Racists have been in power ever since.
Who won the war on Slavery again?
After enduring HUNDREDS of years of being ENSLAVED and even more years volunteering to FIGHT AND DIE to help win the Civil War for the North, Black People went from 40 Acres and a Mule and Black Veterans having the right to vote to Jim Crow....
IN 5 DAYS!
So here we are in 2020,
Confederate Flags are still flying over 7 State capitals,
a Racist President is in office,
Racist White people / Police still hunting and murdering Black people in the street, with impunity -
and all this after a Black Man drags this country out of The Great Recession and brings us Healthcare.
Poetic aint it?
...
but please tell me more about this Black Privilege and Black Racism I hear so much about.
Sounds Fascinating!
