THIS JUST DOESN’T ADD UP !!??
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW THEY EXPLAIN THIS??
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I don't believe owning slaves had anything at all to do with which party you voted for. It was more a matter of whether you needed slaves or not and if you had enough money to buy them.
Some of my ancestors owned slaves, and all were conservatives. They farmed, had large families who also worked in the fields, and they spent only what they had in hand.
I'm pretty sure a lot of the northern slave owners were liberals, and a lot were conservative.
People used to vote based on the individual, not by party. Otherwise, one party would stay in power forever.
Your point is well made, but OP is addressing the whole "All Republicans are racist" lie that is perpetuated ad-nauseum by the Dems and MSM. Lincoln, a Republican, freed the slaves. Republicans came to be as the party of abolition. Abolition is not a "conservative" or "liberal" thing. It's a "all humans should be free" thing.
Racists are racists. They are not limited to any specific party and they come in all shapes, sizes, sexes, and colors.
I know. But OP should omit the part about only Dims owning slaves, as it's incorrect.
False, Dinesh D'Souza has a long running prize of a million dollars if anyone can prove that Republicans owned slaves. NO ONE can find even one record of such a thing and to this day, no Republican ever owned slaves.
Wow. Really? I didn't know that. Thanks for info!
Of course I can't prove how my ancestors voted back in the 1700s. Ballots are secret, and I don't know that they had actual party registrations back then, so there's no way to tell how anyone voted back then. I'm pretty sure my oldest slave-owning ancestor voted conservatively, regardless of what the parties were called back then.
Thomas Jefferson owned slaves, and he was in what was usually called the Republican party, not the Federalist party. The party was really called the Democratic Republican party, so D'Souza would weasel on that one.
On the other hand, Chief Justice John Marshall owned slaves, and he supported the Federalist party. So whichever party you count as being equivalent to today's Republican party, there were slave owners in both parties. That's a documented fact.
True.
The Northerners were the ones with the slave ships who brought them across the Atlantic in the Triangular trade. New England -->Rum, tobacco, etc.--> England -->Textiles, etc. -->Africa-->slaves -->Americas--> Rum, etc---->New England, etc or some variation with the ships sometimes embarking from England -->Africa-->Americas There were a few routes but they involved ships owned mostly by men in New England.Most of the ships left from Newport, R.I. but other New England ports also served.
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