The Legal Paradox of the Emancipation Proclaimation
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Epic, it's Jake from Corridor Digital
He says he’s a lawyer. That or a decent legal researcher to know about some of the points discussed.
Ye he is a lawyer.
I found this video important due, not only to its eminently (to the best of my understanding) fair look at a complex point of history, and a very fair economic look into the difficulties of abolishing chattel slavery (unfortunately not debt slavery as well, though that’s likely incoming), but also due to Trump’s signaling of the importance of both Jackson and Lincoln to his presidency.
I’d say, “don’t be surprised if Trump deploys a novel legal maneuver like this during his third term”, but he already did so during his second.
Kek.
Wow. I wept.
It's a top notch video, but at the back of it all is Abraham Lincoln. In the end, he gave his life for the nation. I think it was payment he would have been more than willing to make. No greater love hath any man than he lay down his life for his brother.
Happy Anniversary, US (for next year)
Screw Abraham Lincoln. He lead our country into a phenomenally destructive civil war killing off many patriots across the nation.
He should have negotiated an end to slavery.
To his credit, he wanted to remigrate them back to Africa after the war. But he got shot before that part of the plan could be finished
Yeah, this really explained him in a way I’ve never heard before, either.
He’s definitely a complicated figure…
One thing is for sure though, if history teachers would present this LEGAL and ECONOMIC look into the nature of LAWFULLY freeing the slaves in America, I don’t think nearly as many people would be so self-loathing or carry as much resentment toward the south/whites.
I’ve read that Robert E. Lee was strongly opposed to some aspect of the war, yet led the southern army out of loyalty to his homeland (Fact may or may not be true, as he gets demonized and overcorrected a lot), but like … people don’t understand the tectonic difficulties that were manifested in that conflict?
It’s like they demand to look at it at the depth level of half an episode of The Smurfs.
You. Good. You. Bad. Slavery. Bad. You. With. Slavery. You. Bad.
We’re in multiple slave systems right now, and you support multiple of them.
Slavers. Not. Tell. That. Must. Be. Lie. You. Bad.