Oh, and Fort Sumter was ceded to the US Government by SC in 1836.
Also, your "What, then, would become of my tariff?" is bogus. No record of Lincoln saying that. It comes from hearsay, and no evidence he ever said that.
It's cited...who it was said to, where it was said and the date.
but ok..I'll let you ignore that one...what about the others? Try to wriggle out of that.
LMAO..and what about black slaveholders? Any comments?
More Silliness about Tariffs from David John Marotta <-- Where the hearsay quote was culled from.
The black slaveholders has been discussed by me ad nauseum. It's no gotcha.
First off, much of the Black Slaveowners is pushed by David Grooms, Grooms plays fast and loose with his numbers and has been debunked repeatedly. Grooms writes for the Barnes Review. What is the Barnes Review?
Barnes Review
The Barnes Review is a bi-monthly magazine founded in 1994 by Willis Carto, dedicated to historical revisionism such as Holocaust denial. Willis Carto had earlier founded the
Institute for Historical Review in 1979 but lost control of that organization in an internal takeover by former associates.
^ "Willis A. Carto: Fabricating History".
Anti-Defamation League.
Willis A. Carto: Fabricating History. Retrieved 2008-11-17. "The Spotlight announced in August 1994 that Liberty Lobby was launching a new publication devoted to historical revisionism called The Barnes Review (after the 20th century revisionist historian Harry Elmer Barnes)."
But let's get beyond that.
It is certainly true there were black slaveowners, but I'm sure, as you know, those free blacks were often prisoners in their own states. Law in many Southern states forbade them to even leave the state - unless it was permanent, they were restricted in commerce, legal matters, etc...; just simply living for a free black, even ones who had built up wealth was not as some would have you believe.
As the war approached, even more laws were written that could snatch away their "freedom" at any given moment
...and of course, Dred Scott made it clear they were not even citizens of the country they lived in. read that again:
Even Free Blacks were not even citizens of the country they lived in
Yes, some black slaveowners bought slaves to purchase their kin's freedom, some did it for economic, pragmatic reasons, and some were just as dastardly as their fully white counterparts. All true.
But Grooms inflates numbers by playing with statistics and presenting a much different picture than actually was.
He also fails to mention a good portion of those "negro slaveowners" were mulattoes.
Mary Chestnut wrote about those mulattoes:
"God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system and wrong and iniquity. Perhaps the rest of the world is as bad; this only I see.
Like the patriarchs of our old men live all in one house with their wives and their concubines,
and the mulattoes one sees in every family exactly resemble the white children;
and every lady tells you who is the father of all the mulatto children in everybody's household, but those in her own she seems to think drop from the clouds, or pretends so to think."
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More often than not, those "black slaveowners" many refer to, were by all appearances, quite white. Still, all in all, the numbers were very, very small.
Which brings us back to those "white slaves" quite a few pages back some posters were popping up here. Remember those? There's a reason the Lost Causers keep referring to those, and the "black slaveholders."
It has a lot to do with assuaging the guilt of the fully white man, who sought to preserve his superiority over the black race, in some states where the population of slaves were more majority than free -- and was willing to die to keep white supremacy intact.