For those who want a Confederate view with audio and picture documentation, look at these video:
Tribute to Our Black Confederate Heroes
Black Confederates
These are just two of the many first hand accounts of the treatment and feelings of the fine southern gentlemen toward each other.
Evil hearts do evil no matter the geography, but contrary to the claims by the Yankee media of the time, and some on this board, the Southern slave was generally not harshly treated by the vast majority of the owners.
Folks, it wouldn't even make sense!
Do you purchase the best car you can afford to abuse it?
What value is there in one who is sick, lame, hurt, abused...
The large and small plantation owners were like any business owner; they know that improved stock is worth more than the raw materials, and that same principle was applied throughout the south.
Racism and evil go hand in hand - no doubt.
But Racism knows no geographical boundaries.
The most racist folks I have ever met were not the southern folks, but the Yankees.
I would suggest that the outstanding hero Gen. Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson is somewhat typical of the mentality of the true autistic Christian Southern gentlemen.
Here is a short clip from Wikipedia:
Tribute to Our Black Confederate Heroes
Black Confederates
These are just two of the many first hand accounts of the treatment and feelings of the fine southern gentlemen toward each other.
Evil hearts do evil no matter the geography, but contrary to the claims by the Yankee media of the time, and some on this board, the Southern slave was generally not harshly treated by the vast majority of the owners.
Folks, it wouldn't even make sense!
Do you purchase the best car you can afford to abuse it?
What value is there in one who is sick, lame, hurt, abused...
The large and small plantation owners were like any business owner; they know that improved stock is worth more than the raw materials, and that same principle was applied throughout the south.
Racism and evil go hand in hand - no doubt.
But Racism knows no geographical boundaries.
The most racist folks I have ever met were not the southern folks, but the Yankees.
I would suggest that the outstanding hero Gen. Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson is somewhat typical of the mentality of the true autistic Christian Southern gentlemen.
Here is a short clip from Wikipedia:
Little as he was known to the white inhabitants of Lexington, Jackson was revered by many of the African-Americans in town, both slaves and free blacks. He was instrumental in the organization in 1855 of Sunday School classes for blacks at the Presbyterian Church. His second wife, Mary Anna Jackson, taught with Jackson, as "he preferred that my labors should be given to the colored children, believing that it was more important and useful to put the strong hand of the Gospel under the ignorant African race, to lift them up."[21] The pastor, Dr. William Spottswood White, described the relationship between Jackson and his Sunday afternoon students: "In their religious instruction he succeeded wonderfully. His discipline was systematic and firm, but very kind. ... His servants reverenced and loved him, as they would have done a brother or father. ... He was emphatically the black man's friend." He addressed his students by name and they in turn referred to him affectionately as "Marse Major."[22]
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