Confederate constitution legalized slavery

[williepete]

An interesting article from the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Not quite what they've taught in public schools since the end of the war.

FIVE THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT LINCOLN SLAVERY AND EMANCIPATION
by Sarah Pruitt
September 2012

1. Lincoln wasn’t an abolitionist.
2. Lincoln didn’t believe blacks should have the same rights as whites.
3. Lincoln thought colonization could resolve the issue of slavery.
4. Emancipation was a military policy.
5. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t actually free all of the slaves.
Article:
5 Things You May Not Know About Lincoln Slavery and Emancipation History in the Headlines

 

[Esmeralda]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

Astonishing.

 

[paperview]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

Astonishing.

I know huh? Truly amazing in its stupidity.

 

[Esmeralda]

All of which means nothing about the OP.

The CSA was all about slavery.

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

The Confederates went to war to maintain their way of life, to maintain slavery. Anyone who thinks differently is delusional.

 

[Esmeralda]

Lincoln never supported, tacitly or otherwise, the Corwin Amendment.

Remember that when the nutters try to claim that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

Oddly enough, Abraham Lincoln sought to enshrine slavery into the US Constitution with his tacit support for the Corwin Amendment. Said amendment would have made the institution permanent.
The Confederate Constitution barred importation of slaves, it recognised slaves as property, but unlike Corwin it did not prevent the elimination of the institution at some future date.

All said and done, the Corwin Amendment was a last ditch effort, which most all knew stood no chance of survival.

Lincoln had nothing to do with its passage. By the time he addressed it, most states had already seceded. It was a futility, and most all saw it as such.

At that point anyway - the south had already commenced hostilities. They were bound and determined to go to war and nothing was going to stop them.

The Southrons made it clear in their many declarations of independence and in a boatload of other statements, actions, laws and their own written constitution, the protection of Slavery was at the base of all.

It was the lifeblood (literally) of their economy, and they knew it.

EXACTLY!!

 

[Ravi]

To wit:

"Historian John Hope Franklin wrote of President Lincoln :

"In the fall of 1861 he attempted an experiment with compensated emancipation in Delaware. He interested his friends there and urged them to propose it to the Delaware legislature.

He went so far as to write a draft of the bill, which provided for gradual emancipation, and another which provided that the federal government would share the expenses of compensating masters for their slaves. Although these bills were much discussed, there was too much opposition to introduce them."2 With less than 2000 slaves in the whole state, Delaware seemed like an ideal laboratory for President Lincoln's idea, but Congressman George Fisher was unable to get state legislative approval for the idea.

Meanwhile, the President worked a compensated emancipation plan for all slave-owning states. In early 1862, President Lincoln told abolitionist Mocure D. Conway that southerners "had become at an early day, when there was at least a feeble conscience against slavery, deeply involved commercially and socially with the institution.

He pitied them heartily, all the more that it had corrupted them; and he earnestly advised us to use what influence we might have to impress on the people the feeling that they should be ready and eager to share largely the pecuniary losses to which the South would be subjected if emancipation should occur. It was the disease of the entire nation, all must share the suffering of its removal."3

President Lincoln told New York businessman-journalist James R. Gilmore:

"The feeling is against slavery, not against the South. The war has educated our people into abolition, and they now deny that slaves can be property. But there are two sides to that question.

One is ours, the other, the southern side; and those people are just as honest and conscientious in their opinion as we are in ours. They think they have a moral and legal right to their slaves, and until very recently the North has been of the same opinion. For two hundred years the whole country has admitted it and regarded and treated the slaves as property. Now, does the mere fact that the North has come suddenly to a contrary opinion give us the right to take the slaves from their owners without compensation? The blacks must be freed. Slavery is the bone we are fighting over. It must be got out of the way to give us permanent peace, and if we have to fight this war till the South is subjugated, then I think we shall be justified in freeing the slaves without compensation. But in any settlement arrived at before they force things to that extremity, is it not right and fair that we should make payment for the slaves?"4

In December 1861, the President sent for Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner. ...

<snip>

Blair promised to try to work on his fellow Border State Congressmen and have them visit the President the following day. The response was not positive. Historian James M. McPherson wrote:

"At a meeting with Lincoln on March 10...border-state congressmen questioned the constitutionality of the proposal, bristled at Lincoln's warning, and deplored the anticipated race problem that would emerge with a large free black population."

President Lincoln told Carl Schurz, a diplomat-turned general, that "He was not altogether without hope that the proposition he had presented to the southern states in his message of March 6th would find favorable consideration, at least in some of the border states. He had made the proposition in perfect good faith; it was, perhaps, the last of the kind; and if they repelled it, theirs was the responsibility."12

Compensated Emancipation - Abraham Lincoln

And they are still whining about compensation for "stealing" their slaves.

 

[paperview]

Remember that when the nutters try to claim that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

If you don't have the individual liberty to own human beings of another color, is anyone really free?

Of course not. The south would have eventually started breeding farms. Much cheaper than importing.

That's what they did. There were literally breeding farms across the south.

Most of the southern slavers were quite pleased with the prohibition against the importation of slaves.

It was financially beneficial and they could own the market. And why import what you can make cheaper at home.

They practiced eugenics as well. "Breeding" the strongest and hardiest to get a better "crop." (Not to mention they fucked their own slaves as well).

Very sad and disgusting they would fight a long and bloody war to defend the practice.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The white racists had an unholy lust for dark flesh.

 

[guno]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

 

[paperview]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

 

[Ravi]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Wow, that is all news to me. What a bunch of shits.

 

[paperview]

What's

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Wow, that is all news to me. What a bunch of shits.

Yup. A lot of people are not even aware of this re-enslavement.


It's spectacular in how secretive they were, but it was HUGE, when you consider what an impact it had to a huge swath of the south and just how easily a black person could be picked up for *nothing* -- arrested and put away for life -- for a crime -- for *pretty much nothing* -- whistling even, in between jobs (think about that !!)

In some ways it was even worse than slavery, because the people they were leased out to didn't care even if the workers survived - they had no vested interest in them as property, and they would literally work them to death, and just get new ones at any time.

It was easy when you can arrest a person for just about anything, and no justice system to stand behind you.

And the other thing that came out of that documentary Moyers is discussing --

A stunning fact:

In 1921 John Williams, former plantation owner, became the 1st Southern white man since 1877 to be convicted for 1st degree murder of an African American and it would not happen again until 1966.

This and the post-Civil war slavery in the South is shown in a superb documentary: Slavery By Another Name.

Check it out when you have a chance:

You can watch it for free:

CLICK --> Watch The Film Slavery by Another Name PBS

 

[paperview]

Remind this to the idiots who seem to think "slavery would have just died out" soon anyway, without the war.

It wouldn't have, and it didn't.

 

[Ravi]

What's

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Wow, that is all news to me. What a bunch of shits.

Yup. A lot of people are not even aware of this re-enslavement.


It's spectacular in how secretive they were, but it was HUGE, when you consider what an impact it had to a huge swath of the south and just how easily a black person could be picked up for *nothing* -- arrested and put away for life -- for a crime -- for *pretty much nothing* -- whistling even, in between jobs (think about that !!)

In some ways it was even worse than slavery, because the people they were leased out to didn't care even if the workers survived - they had no vested interest in them as property, and they would literally work them to death, and just get new ones at any time.

It was easy when you can arrest a person for just about anything, and no justice system to stand behind you.

And the other thing that came out of that documentary Moyers is discussing --

A stunning fact:

In 1921 John Williams, former plantation owner, became the 1st Southern white man since 1877 to be convicted for 1st degree murder of an African American and it would not happen again until 1966.

This and the post-Civil war slavery in the South is shown in a superb documentary: Slavery By Another Name.

Check it out when you have a chance:

You can watch it for free:

CLICK --> Watch The Film Slavery by Another Name PBS

Thank you, I've bookmarked it.

It is now even doubly mindboggling that people still support the entire confederacy.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The first white man executed for murdering a black man after the Civil War did not occur in Texas until this century.

 

[paperview]

The first white man executed for murdering a black man after the Civil War did not occur in Texas until this century.

Pretty stunning factoid, isn't it?

 

[Toro]

After listening to all the Confederate apologists, I didn't even know there was slavery in the South.

 

[paperview]

After listening to all the Confederate apologists, I didn't even know there was slavery in the South.

Biblically justified slavery.

These were good "Christians" - donchaknow.

 

[whitehall]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Bill Moyers? Americans lost more than half a million of their best and bravest on both sides because the Lincoln administration did not have the intelligence or the emotional veracity to make a deal with the border states to put off a conflagration that would kill a freaking 6th of the population. Lincoln was the problem, not the solution.

 

[paperview]

The Confederacy only existed for a couple of years in American history but it gives low information idiots a target for hatred. The Confederacy never funded a slave ship or captured a Negro in Africa. The sad truth about the 200 years of international slavery is that the ensign that flew off slave ships wasn't the Confederate battle flag that mostly inner city northern idiots grew up hating. The flag that flew from the stern of slave ships was the British union jack and the French and Spanish flags and the Stars and Stripes. The industrial revolution would have put slavery out of business but the inept Lincoln administration couldn't wait. Innocent Southern people who had nothing to do with slavery died because Lincoln hired a drunk and a maniac to kill civilians.

But the southern crackers states, now referred to as jesusland wasted no time in instituting jim crow after they got their asses kicked

Yup.

And even re-enslaving them.

Slavery abolished in the South, by FORCE: 1865.
Slavery by another name in the South continued till until 1951, when Peonage and in essence, re-enslavement was made illegal.

And this is a stunning figure, in bold below: "It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century."

Just incredible.

"Southern states passed "Black Codes" to control the movement of freedmen and to try to gain their labor for planters. They often declared as vagrant someone who was unemployed, even if between jobs. They tried to restrict the movement of freedmen between rural areas and cities, to between towns. Under such laws, local officials arbitrarily arrested tens of thousands of freedmen, and charged them with fines and the court costs of their cases.

White merchants, farmers or business owners could pay their debts, and the prisoner had to work off the debt. Prisoners were "sold" or leased as forced laborers to owners and operators of coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations, with the revenues for their labor going to the states. Thousands of other African Americans were seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude.

Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations looking for cheap labor. Black men, women and children were forced to labor without compensation. Their labor was repeatedly bought and sold for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.

Whites were seldom prosecuted for holding black workers against their will in peonage. Southern states and private businesses boomed with this free labor. It is estimated that up to 40% of blacks in the South were imprisoned in peonage in the beginning of the 20th century.

Overseers and owners often used severe deprivation, beatings, whippings and other abuse as "discipline" against the workers."

Peon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Here is a clip from Moyers talking with the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning book,

Bill Moyers? Americans lost more than half a million of their best and bravest on both sides because the Lincoln administration did not have the intelligence or the emotional veracity to make a deal with the border states to put off a conflagration that would kill a freaking 6th of the population. Lincoln was the problem, not the solution.

^ a totally ignorant post.