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Why Was LINCOLN Such a Zealot Against SLAVERY ??!!
Well, for one thing, his father would rent him out to the neighbors to work in their fields, etc.
And after young Abe got paid, his father would demand that he turn the money over to him.
So Abe experienced what it was like to work hard without pay.
But was that sort of injustice comparable to real slavery??!!
Not really, for Abe escaped being beaten half to death while he worked for the neighbors.
Whereas for black slaves getting beaten was fairly common.
Also, at night Abe was known to read plays by Shakespeare, or other books.
Whereas, slaves not only were not allowed to have books, they were forbidden to learn to read in the first place.
So Lincoln never really came close to suffering the deprivation of black slaves.
Just think of the brains that were effectively crippled due to slavery.
The population of the USA was about 25 million at the time of the Civil War, and 16 million were in the North.
That leaves 9 million in the South, with 3 million of them were slaves.
If 3 million minds were almost totally deprived of cultural enrichment that books offer, that's a lot of "arrested development."
That's a lot of brain power going to waste because of slavery !!
WHY did the Law in the South deprive black slaves of education??
Well the whole rationale of slavery was that blacks were inferior enuff to not deserve to be free !!
If a black man were educated and could understand science, etc, that would expose the rationale for slavery as false, as totally artificial !!
So the South NEEDED black slaves to be illiteral, uneducated !!
In the beginning, the USA was like 90% Protestant.
(I'm talking about the early 1800s - before the Irish came over in waves due to the potato famine, etc.)
And one of the most important things about the Protestant Reformation was its emphasis on universal education.
Everybody was supposed to learn to read so that they could read their Bibles for themselves !!
That was the rationale !!
So when the Southerners made it against the law to teach black slaves how to read, they were putting slavery above Protestantism
- above even God, you could say !!
Did this betrayal result in a curse on the South??
Well, the Civil War was certainly a curse !!
And after young Abe got paid, his father would demand that he turn the money over to him.
So Abe experienced what it was like to work hard without pay.
But was that sort of injustice comparable to real slavery??!!
Not really, for Abe escaped being beaten half to death while he worked for the neighbors.
Whereas for black slaves getting beaten was fairly common.
Also, at night Abe was known to read plays by Shakespeare, or other books.
Whereas, slaves not only were not allowed to have books, they were forbidden to learn to read in the first place.
So Lincoln never really came close to suffering the deprivation of black slaves.
Just think of the brains that were effectively crippled due to slavery.
The population of the USA was about 25 million at the time of the Civil War, and 16 million were in the North.
That leaves 9 million in the South, with 3 million of them were slaves.
If 3 million minds were almost totally deprived of cultural enrichment that books offer, that's a lot of "arrested development."
That's a lot of brain power going to waste because of slavery !!
WHY did the Law in the South deprive black slaves of education??
Well the whole rationale of slavery was that blacks were inferior enuff to not deserve to be free !!
If a black man were educated and could understand science, etc, that would expose the rationale for slavery as false, as totally artificial !!
So the South NEEDED black slaves to be illiteral, uneducated !!
In the beginning, the USA was like 90% Protestant.
(I'm talking about the early 1800s - before the Irish came over in waves due to the potato famine, etc.)
And one of the most important things about the Protestant Reformation was its emphasis on universal education.
Everybody was supposed to learn to read so that they could read their Bibles for themselves !!
That was the rationale !!
So when the Southerners made it against the law to teach black slaves how to read, they were putting slavery above Protestantism
- above even God, you could say !!
Did this betrayal result in a curse on the South??
Well, the Civil War was certainly a curse !!
Published 19th Mar 2021
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20th Mar 2021 5:55pm
On the issue of forced black illiteracy, the 'father of the country' George Washington left a bequest to educate slave children in his home state Virginia, which because of its then law against educating blacks nullified what could have set a good example to prosperous Americans. This was before Lincoln's lifetime.
The Civil War was one of three major periods of violence in American history that (intended or otherwise) followed periods of Christian revival in the continent. the first being the American Revolution and the third the 1920s gang warfare that grew up around Prohibition (that had been partly instigated by church temperance movements).
The Civil War was one of three major periods of violence in American history that (intended or otherwise) followed periods of Christian revival in the continent. the first being the American Revolution and the third the 1920s gang warfare that grew up around Prohibition (that had been partly instigated by church temperance movements).
30th Mar 2021 10:32pm
About the (Protestant) temperance movement, people complained about less tax money being generated if alcohol were removed. So the temperance movement leaders offered a new source of tax money - an income tax !! Yes, it came about as the replacement of tax money on alcohol !!
About the (Protestant) temperance movement, people complained about less tax money being generated if alcohol were removed. So the temperance movement leaders offered a new source of tax money - an income tax !! Yes, it came about as the replacement of tax money on alcohol !!
31st Mar 2021 7:26am
