Abraham Lincoln has been trumpeted as an emancipator of the slaves by one side who loves him and an absolute racist by those who hate him.
This blog in another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter and anti matter puts forward a personal letter of Mr. Lincoln, more for the point of exposing the absolute rubbish which the Abolitionist propaganda put forward which was the chief harm to the condition of the slaves as expressed by Theodore Roosevelt and by their absolute harm to all of America, to this day in their various "modern sodomite rights form".
In the letter, Mr. Lincoln gives an account of slaves being sold down river in the condition they were sent and their attitude from his witness account.
From all the tales of this, one would expect lamentation and tears, but the group of slaves as Lincoln says deprived of all their family and female associations from birth, was one of smiles and a contentment, to almost jovial celebration.
Yes the whip is often spoken of, but the reality is these slaves were quite content with their situation and no whip was employed, as to whip any livestock which was owned would in most cases damage the goods and harm the investment.
I make no defense nor promotion of slavery in this examination, as in this form slavery did keep blacks alive who would have died as meat for the lion in Africa, and allowed them to breed and create a civilized people, but it is time that one examines the reality of slavery, not from a few propaganda examples whose authors can be suspect as more evidence arises, but when Abraham Lincoln states that the slaves were happy while still bringing up the idea of the "whip" fostered into his political discourse, even he was not believing what his eyes were seeing him, and seeing from a different rose colored perspective.
Yes down the river slaves, playing games every day......and not put to task. Sounds a great deal like modern welfare affirmative action employment.
TO MISS MARY SPEED--PRACTICAL SLAVERY
BLOOMINGTON, ILL., September 27, 1841.
Miss Mary Speed, Louisville, Ky.
MY FRIEND: By the way, a fine example was presented on board the boat
for contemplating the effect of condition upon human happiness. A
gentleman had purchased twelve negroes in different parts of Kentucky,
and was taking them to a farm in the South. They were chained six and
six together. A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each,
and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one, at a convenient
distance from the others, so that the negroes were strung together
precisely like so many fish upon a trotline. In this condition they
were being separated forever from the scenes of their childhood, their
friends, their fathers and mothers, and brothers and sisters, and many
of them from their wives and children, and going into perpetual
slavery where the lash of the master is proverbially more ruthless
and unrelenting than any other; and yet amid all these distressing
circumstances, as we would think them, they were the most cheerful and
apparently happy creatures on board. One, whose offence for which he
had been sold was an overfondness for his wife, played the fiddle almost
continually, and the others danced, sang, cracked jokes, and played
various games with cards from day to day. How true it is that 'God
tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that he renders
the worst of human conditions tolerable, while he permits the best to
be nothing better than tolerable. To return to the narrative: When we
reached Springfield I stayed but one day, when I started on this tedious
circuit where I now am. Do you remember my going to the city, while I
was in Kentucky, to have a tooth extracted, and making a failure of it?
Well, that same old tooth got to paining me so much that about a week
since I had it torn out, bringing with it a bit of the jawbone, the
consequence of which is that my mouth is now so sore that I can neither
talk nor eat.
Your sincere friend, A. LINCOLN.
Abraham Lincoln probably had more torment from a dentist inflicting on him, than those down the river slaves ever had inflicted on them.
Too fond of his wife........wonder who was fond of her that was jealous and who was she fond of not her mate eh?
nuff said
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