That's my point, too...and in both the North and South, there were Free Blacks who helped build America from the git-go.
Should we have sent them away too, just becuz it wouldda been easier on the RACISTS on BOTH sides of the Mason-Dixon line...MUD :pondering:
Completely agree. Two things that bug me in the 'shouldda wouldda' conversation are 'we should have bought them' which just reinforces that humans are chattel that can be bought and sold by the government, and 'let them go back home' as this was their home, no matter how they got here or the state in which they were held. They should have had as free of a choice to go or stay as any free man in this country.
Interesting take, Bigun, but I'm sure you know what you said can be taken in more than one way...
Coup d'etat, you say? Is that on account that the people making the decisions were more interested in maintaining their own access 2 wealth than it was thinking what would be best 4 WeThePeople?
No. It is on account of the fact that from the very beginning there were those who abhorred the idea of an American republic and in 1860 did something about it. The republic we were given by our founders was converted to the mercantile empire we now have. Nothing more than that.