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Re: Early Law Enforcement in Jax (warning, racist language)
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August 07, 2009, 11:17:59 PM »
Well historically, I think the main difference was the taxation policy and the anti spending mentality that has been with us throughout our history.
Slavery was ended for the most part, across the world when governments decided to purchase freedom for the slaves in their countries.
Great Britain et al actually purchased the slaves or reimbursed the factory owners etc for the freedom.
In the US however, there was no plan that the US government would approve that paid reimbursements to the slave owners.
In the end, the war and the subsequent 100 year period of hostility within the states was way more expensive than ending Slavery the way the rest of the world had.
During the lead up to the Civil war, especially in the 30 years immediately prior to the conflict, the southerners tragically devoted a lot of their educations to the miserable end of justifying slavery.
The war intensified and created bitterness between the races that would not have existed otherwise....and I mean this in a general rather than a specific way.
And every place was different, Heights. As was every family and every generation.
There would have been no war, and locally there would have been a much different outcome had it not been for a large chunk of whites who hated slavery and were philosophically committed to the Union Cause.
Paran Moody, Mayor Burbridge, the Fatio and L'engle families, as well as many of the Hendricks and the LeBarons were all unionist solely on this issue.
Jacksonville has a pretty surprising history on this issue, actually. Keep in mind that this is where Harriet Beecher Stowe lived. When Lincoln met the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, he allegedly greeted her with the line: "So. Youre the little bitch that started this great big war?"
And yes it is hard to imagine the depth and width of the hatred and the spite.
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