By now, there have been more gallons of ink spilled in chronicling, analyzing and Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Civil War than blood spilled on all of its battlefields. Yet the period remains catnip to scholars and amateur historians for its deep-set meanings and motivations that still resonate today. But noted...
"Dividing the National Map," 1860. Presidential candidate include Abraham Lincoln , Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckenridge and John Bell.By now, there have been more gallons of ink spilled in chronicling, analyzing and Monday Morning Quarterbacking the Civil War than blood spilled on all of its battlefields. Yet the period remains catnip to scholars and amateur historians for its deep-set meanings and motivations that still resonate today.
For Canada, it was their French vs. English territories and people, and the bid to establish transcontinental relations and trade. For Mexico, it was liberals vs. imperialists—plus throw in an attempted overtaking and rule by France by Napoleon. NapoleonAnd both countries were more than concerned the more powerful meat it the North American sandwich would eventually come to overtake or annex them—just as the United States was pushing West and subjugating or destroying the Native Americans.
That white anti-slavery Abolitionists had promised local Blacks freedom and rewards if they committed arson. That the city’s water supply had been laced with strychnine so as to killed swaths of white men, leaving only Blacks as potential husbands for their daughters, the “ultimate nightmare of Southern white men.”
Despite how Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation are viewed and celebrated in 2024, Lincoln initially pushed for the containment of slavery—its eradication. And even the Proclamation exempted a number of states, including Tennessee and Louisiana from its provisions. It also, conveniently, allowed for the recruitment of Black soldiers to the Union cause, increasing their ranks and terrifying Confederates.
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