tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733508189924773862.post6777857650848243892..comments2024-03-28T02:02:22.629-04:00Comments on Random Thoughts on History: Opposing Image Perspectives on the Emancipation ProclamationTim Talbotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184297245966915181noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733508189924773862.post-31398236057816750462010-10-01T21:13:53.890-04:002010-10-01T21:13:53.890-04:00Whose is the head holding up the hooded lady liber...Whose is the head holding up the hooded lady liberty?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733508189924773862.post-91659193133985170362010-05-25T20:06:33.426-04:002010-05-25T20:06:33.426-04:00more could b said about the southern view of the d...more could b said about the southern view of the documentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733508189924773862.post-51984566443627392552010-03-30T20:57:52.073-04:002010-03-30T20:57:52.073-04:00David,
That is an excellent question. I am certai...David,<br />That is an excellent question. I am certainly not the Lincoln scholar, but I will see what I can find on this. <br /><br />Personally, I don't think that the Southern states would have gone for any kind of compensated deal. Not only did they have way too much money tied up in their slave property, they firmly believed that without slavery their social structure would crumble immediately. John C. Calhoun, during the debate on the Compromise of 1850, had said that, "On the contrary, the Southern section regards the relation [slavery]as one which can not be destroyed without subjecting the two races to the greatest calamity, and the section [the South] to poverty, desolation, and wretchedness; and accordingly they feel bound by every consideration of interest and safety to defend it." Later, as the war crept closer, many others said the same thing. <br /><br />Kentucky, being a Border State, was not subject to the E.P. and kept up the institution even after war ended. Slavery only ended in the Bluegrass state when the 13th Amendment was radified by enough states to be added to the Constitution in December 1865. Kentucky finally radified it in 1976!Tim Talbotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02184297245966915181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6733508189924773862.post-13104680244391790232010-03-29T22:09:57.911-04:002010-03-29T22:09:57.911-04:00Very little is said in any circles of the emancipa...Very little is said in any circles of the emancipation that Lincoln did in the D.C./Maryland area prior to the one we all see in the history books in public school. The earlier one compensated slave holders,probably not with their total investment, and provided some money to the freedman for a start. Was this ever a reality that the Southern states turned down?<br /> David RobertsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com