“This is a reminder that there was not a single major slave uprising during the War for Southern Independence” – IOTW Report

“This is a reminder that there was not a single major slave uprising during the War for Southern Independence”

Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 21:33 BFH Uncategorized 32

VIA- Sean Pádraig – iOTWreport commenter

Confederate Digest – This is a reminder that there was not a single major slave uprising during the War for Southern Independence, although countless Southern homes, plantations and farms were left in the care of black servants while the men were away at war.  This was in spite of Abraham Lincoln’s declared best effort to cause an insurrection in which the blacks would murder innocent white women, children, and old men while the able bodied men were gone.   Tens of thousands of black men, both slave and free, were also fighting for the Confederacy – defending their homes against the aggressive Yankee invaders.

I’ve been told or read at least a thousand times that the North fought to free the slaves and the South fought to defend slavery.  That’s odd, because I’ve visited and photographed hundreds of monuments to the War Between the States and have NEVER seen a Confederate Monument that says the South fought to protect slavery, nor have I seen a Union Monument that says the North fought to free the slaves.  And that’s after visiting 3,055 of the 3,142 counties in The U.S.A.

Apparently, the myth that the War of Northern Aggression was all about freeing the slaves is  just that – a myth.  The historical records make it clear that the slavery issue was interjected into the war long after the Yankees invaded the South, motivated by greed and a lust for power.

See the other three sides of the monument HERE

32 Comments on “This is a reminder that there was not a single major slave uprising during the War for Southern Independence”

  4. If you are ever in Biloxi, Mississippi you may want to visit Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis home.
    Hurricane Katrina hit it accidentally when George Bush commanded the storm to harm black people.
    They have a nice beach and good casinos in Biloxi too.

  6. Not during the War Of Northern Aggression but the era leading up to it, negro’s like Nat Turner who killed 61 – mostly white women and children in Virginia, as part of his uprising/rebellion. Turner later said “that he wanted to spread “terror and alarm” among whites”. Plenty of that Nat blood still around.

  9. Obama’s legacy will be getting the Confederate Battle flag banned. (Of course, some crazy bastard was really responsible, but why quibble?)

    However, the flag will be just like Obi-Wan Kenobi:

    You can’t win, O’preezy. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

  11. So this guy doesn’t see any monuments celebrating slavery in the south and so concludes that slavery must not have been that important to the confederacy?!?!!!!!!!

    So if not for the preservation of the camp at Auschwitz, this guy would probably conclude that genocide probably wasn’t all that important to the national socialists. Actually I wouldn’t be surprised if he does believe that.

  13. Not surprising, since slaves were a
    very important part of the Southern economy at the time. The North, not so much. Since the North had boatloads of European immigrants arriving regularly to provide cheap labor, abolition would scarcely have affected them, whereas it would have been a great economic blow to the South.

    People have argued until they are blue (or gray) in the face about whether slavery was the root cause of secession, but everybody agrees it was one of the motivating factors. It was also part of the larger issue of what was deemed to be “States Rights”.

  14. Oh yeah – ban the Stars & Bars.
    Thnx for giving back a potent symbol of rebellion & it’s not that pussy “V for Vendetta” poncy mask.

    Anyone that doesn’t see the South’s choice to opt out can’t possibly understand the words “Staitist” or “Freedom.”

    Whatever their motives were, they chose their own way.

    Imagine that.

  17. Just went and reread Lincoln’s Second Inaugural. Slavery seemed like it was a pretty important cause of Civil War to him. So this author says slavery was just an afterthought while the President at the time says it was the chief cause.

    Ok, so maybe the cause of the civil war wasn’t the point of this guys little article. So what was it then? That blacks were happy being slaves? Because this nurse slave has a monument that says she was a good nurse slave? I guess he thinks all the blacks wanted to be slaves, they just needed somebody smarter to tell them how to live and order there society. Like a philosopher king-type. And this is compatible with liberty how?

    We gonna start posting storm front articles next?

  19. They can talk States Rights all they want, but the fact of the matter is that but for slavery there never would have been a civil war. Slavery was/is a crime against humanity. And we are still paying the price.

  20. Tony R, I saw this great JPEG the other day of this newborn white baby looking directly at you with wide eyes and the caption read.” WTF, I just got here and slavery is my fault”. Give it a fucking break will ya moron.

  21. Vietvet – the link below is to some interesting info on the economies of the north and south in at the time of the civil war. 80% of the South’s economy (large scale farming) was dependent on slave labor at the time. The northern states (as most of the world at the time) had slaves until the early 1800’s.

    http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/northandsouth.html

    As soon as Lincoln was elected (before his inauguration) 7 Southern states had seceded based on Lincoln’s known political stances. In his first inaugural address Lincoln stated that the constitution provided him with no authority to interfere in state slavery laws but he soon did (Obama’s executive amnesty flip-flop on his constitutional powers comes to mind as a modern comparison). Lincoln also claimed that the Constitution made the Union a permanent contract that prohibited member states ever leaving (those who ratified the constitution didn’t see it this way).

    The Southern states were afraid that their representation in congress would become meaningless if new territories were automatically “free states” as the north wanted to impose (the senate was effectively balanced at the time). In fact, states were admitted into the union in pairs (one slave state, one “free” state) to maintain this balance of power for the first 50 years or so of the 19th century because the issue was contentious enough to make the politicians fear splitting the union if they didn’t.

    Lincoln and the northern politicians were threatening to kill the South’s economy overnight by passing federal laws that would have no impact on the north’s economy but would literally destroy the south’s ability to exist. Ultimately, it was the overbearing tyranny of Lincoln based on his ideas about the power of the federal government that caused the southern states to rebel against what they rightly viewed as an illegitimate power grab by Washington, DC which was controlled by northern politicians.

  22. Sparks – you might want to revisit Lincoln’s first inaugural address where Lincoln stated:

    “I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.”

    http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/lincolninaugural1.html

    The economy of the Southern states was the real issue (slavery being part of that overall issue – see my comment below) and the autonomy of the states as set forth in the Constitution’s 10th amendment:

    “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

    The federal government under Lincoln and his predecessors had repeatedly usurped powers that clearly belonged to the states. Not unlike the current situation we find ourselves in.

  23. Only 4% of southerners owned slaves. Robert E. Lee was not among them. Nor was J.E.B. Stuart. You know who was? Ulysses S Grant. He did not free his slaves until 1865 when the 13th amendment abolished slavery. He inherited them as dowery and claimed them a necessary evil during the hardship of war.

    So what was it about all about if not slaves? For the south, a hatred of a big centralized government run amuck. For the north, the loss of two of the top three resources; cotton and peanuts. And with the southern railways growing larger by the day, westward expansion might add new territories to that list including union territory California when the aforementioned resources met with big export money to Asia.

    But no one wants to hear such truths in the midst of another good liberal witch hunt.

  25. Brad: The point is not that it is my fault, dumbass. What do you suppose the black population of the U.S. would be today had slave owners not imported millions of slaves?

  28. Some people are going to get rich
    selling the Stars and Bars
    now that WalMart, EBay and
    Amazon decided to put a pc lid
    on free speech. I think I will buy
    a nice large one now that I
    found it so offends lefty A holes.

  30. It blows my mind that otherwise seemingly sane and rational (and hopefully intellectually honest) people are somehow totally convinced (the peer reviewed consensus is in and the science is settled) that the words “slavery”, “slave”, “master”, and anything related to or concerning slavery is wholly and exclusively a product of the antebellum South and refers only to Christian White men of the C.S.A.! Including the fantastic myth of the vast network of Bufords, Jebediahs, and Bubbas who sailed their great and terrible Moonshine and Mint Julip powered slave ships directly to and then right on across the vast dark continent rounding up millions of noble kings and diplomats from their Progressive Peace and Social Justice councils, and dragging them back to Atlanta in chains, to be auctioned off in bulk to be distributed evenly among the lazy and greedy white folks as Christmas presents and as Happy Meal toys! My guess is that Rev. BillyBob got the idea from a Rabbi he met who told him the secret of how the Jews got to be so rich and powerful when Moses and BiBi Netanyahu convinced the Jooos to enslave all of the African Egyptian Palestinians for 400 years! But other than that there has never been another person, let alone people, enslaved by any other person in the history of the world!!!
    Dumbasses!

  32. Yes. But every great nation, kingdom and empire was built on slavery. And most were not african. Do we rid ourselves of everything great for that reason? And does that include everyone who stood on those giant shoulders to achieve greatness by proxy? Tell me. Just where do the reparations end?

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