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procommenter (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
The European powers saw Lincoln's pronouncement as a plea for plantation Negroes to slaughter their absent masters' wives & children. Lincoln's War, as are all wars, was about the consolidation of power. Power was spread too thinly in antebellum America, so deduced the great banking houses of the City of New York. Rail-splitting Abe's "Proclamation" only concerned itself with slaves within the states that were in rebellion against the Union, in effect: not a single slave was freed.
procommenter (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation helped to precipitate New York's draft riots (July 11-16, 1863) whereat 100's of innocent blacks were killed (even a black orphanage was torched). There was no love for Negroes north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Indeed, the incidents of lynchings, per capita, were often higher in the Union. |
