“I did more for the Russian serf,” observed the Emperor, “in giving him land as well as personal liberty, than America did for the Negro slave set free by the proclamation of President Lincoln.’ I am at a loss to understand how you Americans could have been so blind as to leave the Negro slave without tools to work out his salvation. In giving him personal liberty, you gave him an obligation to perform to the state which he must be unable to fulfill. Without property of any kind he cannot educate himself and his children. I believe the time must come when many will question the manner of American emancipation of the Negro slaves in 1863. The vote, in the hands of an ignorant man, without either property or self respect, will be used to the damage of the people at large; for the rich man, without honor or any kind of patriotism, will purchase it, and with it swamp the rights of a free people.” -Czar Alexander II, President Abraham Lincolns dear and good friend As addressed on this site numerous times, Imperial Russia was the ONLY nation to assist the American Union and free those who were held in bondage and chains. Following the murder of Abraham Lincoln on Good Friday, April 14, 1865 and Union Victory, the American South began Reconstruction. What followed for those who had been freed?....NOT much better then their bondage prior to Emancipation (sharecropping/KKK/Jim Crow/Segregation... Had Lincoln lived? I personally believe this would NOT have happened. Russia did NOT bring Africans over on slave ships, packed no better then sardines in a can. Many Westerners will critique Russian serfdom yet ignore Americas dark and evil stain of human bondage. MUST watch movie Glory https://youtube/watch?v=pROtFa6ggzM
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 19:53:52 +0000
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