Roy, the problem started with Lincoln's assassination and the accession of Andrew Johnson, a racist Democrat. He stalled and back pedaled the nascent reconstruction.
Restoring the Unreconstructed States Although Congressional Reconstruction brought most of the southern states back into the Union before 1868, Ulysses S. Grant still had to …
Roy, the problem started with Lincoln's assassination and the accession of Andrew Johnson, a racist Democrat. He stalled and back pedaled the nascent reconstruction.
Restoring the Unreconstructed States Although Congressional Reconstruction brought most of the southern states back into the Union before 1868, Ulysses S. Grant still had to address the southern problem. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas remained unreconstructed when he took office, and Republicans at the national level remained undecided about what to do about problems in Georgia regarding the seating of new black legislators. Reconstruction posed a challenge for Grant because of the goals he hoped to accomplish. Grant sought to protect the political and civil rights of blacks, but he also wanted to maintain a Republican presence in the South. Protecting blacks inherently would drive many whites away from the Republican Party; convincing whites to remain with the Republican Party would require abandoning the blacks to the mercy of the state governments. Moreover, to preserve the national Republican Party at a time when fighting slavery and rebellion no longer gave members a common cause likely would mean refocusing the party’s interests away from the South. Finally, policies adopted during Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction limited Grant’s options for dealing with problems in the southern states. https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History/United_States_History_to_1877_(Locks_et_al.)/17%3A_Reconstruction/17.04%3A_Retreat_from_Reconstruction-_The_Grant_Years#:~:text=Reconstruction%20posed%20a%20challenge%20for,Republican%20presence%20in%20the%20South.
White Southerners had a paternalistic attitude towards "the coloreds". My grandmothr asked me in 1964, "why are them coloreds so upset, don't we treat them well enough", There wasn't a hateful bone in her body, in fact the only neighbors of he family 1870, 1880 were listed as "B" under race onthe census, and the family called the Mammy and Pappy which are terms of endearment that planters children used towards their house slaves.
We lived on what is now called soul food, collard greens, turnip greens, black eyed peas, hush puppies, and the chickens and pork that Pappy slaughtered and Mammy butchered., squirrel and corn meal breaded bream, fired crisp..yumm.
My ancestors stepped foot on Jamestown in 1620, 9th ggmother) and 1618 (8th great grandfather) there were no slaves then, not until 1661, but indentured servants of which he transported quite a few and got 50 acre patents for each servant.
The family grew some became planters, owned slaves, others failed and became dirt farmers.
My 5th ggf died before he could tutor his younger sons, thus they lacked the skills to enter into contracts (indentures) and were inspirational planters, never owned a slave until about 1830, when my 3rd ggf and his brother, a neighbor, owned at least one slave. Mine owned an old man over age 45, perhaps out of kindness less he starve. He was the last slave owner.
One of his sons, a great great uncle, abandoned his wife and three infant children and joined the Perry Rangers, was almost immediately transferred to the 28th Alabama and with 75 days was mortally wounded at Corinth to die in a confederate hospital.
A great great grandfather joyfully eft behind his wife and three infant children, to march up a dusty road to the county courthouse to enlist in the 37th (Bells) regiment and to die about 75 days later of a plague that swept through Camp Nelson, outside of Austin AR
A cousin was captured at Arkansas Post and died of Small Pox in Camp Douglas, outside of Chicago, another died on Missionary Ridge outside of Chattanooga, two were caught spying on the Federals outside of Vicksburg and were gun downed as theyu ran across a field. on their parents property.
Fools everyone, those that weren't conscripted like my great great grandfather and uncle, but I am actually glad for their outcome, had it not been the way that it happened, I would never have been born.
As regards the slave owning ancestors. No guilt here, because that is not me, not my history or my sentiments, nothing I can do to change the past.
I am, as you might be able to tell, a genetic genealogist, I do it for fun, an avocation,most I deal with need to find a "noble" or auspicious ancestor, me I don't care,I have plenty, but they are not me, I do not stand on their shoulders nor do I wallow under their feet.
Devils or angels, they are not me, and I do not believe in the bible and that crap about the sins of the father.
The number of ancestors whose descendants turn out to be crap are legion. Same with nondescript ancestors who left no record, and who have been magnificent people that contributed to our civilization and culture. Especially true of American Descendants of Slaves who are fortunate if they can identify an ancestor who lived in 1860
Roy, the problem started with Lincoln's assassination and the accession of Andrew Johnson, a racist Democrat. He stalled and back pedaled the nascent reconstruction.
Restoring the Unreconstructed States Although Congressional Reconstruction brought most of the southern states back into the Union before 1868, Ulysses S. Grant still had to address the southern problem. Virginia, Mississippi, and Texas remained unreconstructed when he took office, and Republicans at the national level remained undecided about what to do about problems in Georgia regarding the seating of new black legislators. Reconstruction posed a challenge for Grant because of the goals he hoped to accomplish. Grant sought to protect the political and civil rights of blacks, but he also wanted to maintain a Republican presence in the South. Protecting blacks inherently would drive many whites away from the Republican Party; convincing whites to remain with the Republican Party would require abandoning the blacks to the mercy of the state governments. Moreover, to preserve the national Republican Party at a time when fighting slavery and rebellion no longer gave members a common cause likely would mean refocusing the party’s interests away from the South. Finally, policies adopted during Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction limited Grant’s options for dealing with problems in the southern states. https://human.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/History/National_History/United_States_History_to_1877_(Locks_et_al.)/17%3A_Reconstruction/17.04%3A_Retreat_from_Reconstruction-_The_Grant_Years#:~:text=Reconstruction%20posed%20a%20challenge%20for,Republican%20presence%20in%20the%20South.
White Southerners had a paternalistic attitude towards "the coloreds". My grandmothr asked me in 1964, "why are them coloreds so upset, don't we treat them well enough", There wasn't a hateful bone in her body, in fact the only neighbors of he family 1870, 1880 were listed as "B" under race onthe census, and the family called the Mammy and Pappy which are terms of endearment that planters children used towards their house slaves.
We lived on what is now called soul food, collard greens, turnip greens, black eyed peas, hush puppies, and the chickens and pork that Pappy slaughtered and Mammy butchered., squirrel and corn meal breaded bream, fired crisp..yumm.
My ancestors stepped foot on Jamestown in 1620, 9th ggmother) and 1618 (8th great grandfather) there were no slaves then, not until 1661, but indentured servants of which he transported quite a few and got 50 acre patents for each servant.
The family grew some became planters, owned slaves, others failed and became dirt farmers.
My 5th ggf died before he could tutor his younger sons, thus they lacked the skills to enter into contracts (indentures) and were inspirational planters, never owned a slave until about 1830, when my 3rd ggf and his brother, a neighbor, owned at least one slave. Mine owned an old man over age 45, perhaps out of kindness less he starve. He was the last slave owner.
One of his sons, a great great uncle, abandoned his wife and three infant children and joined the Perry Rangers, was almost immediately transferred to the 28th Alabama and with 75 days was mortally wounded at Corinth to die in a confederate hospital.
A great great grandfather joyfully eft behind his wife and three infant children, to march up a dusty road to the county courthouse to enlist in the 37th (Bells) regiment and to die about 75 days later of a plague that swept through Camp Nelson, outside of Austin AR
A cousin was captured at Arkansas Post and died of Small Pox in Camp Douglas, outside of Chicago, another died on Missionary Ridge outside of Chattanooga, two were caught spying on the Federals outside of Vicksburg and were gun downed as theyu ran across a field. on their parents property.
Fools everyone, those that weren't conscripted like my great great grandfather and uncle, but I am actually glad for their outcome, had it not been the way that it happened, I would never have been born.
As regards the slave owning ancestors. No guilt here, because that is not me, not my history or my sentiments, nothing I can do to change the past.
I am, as you might be able to tell, a genetic genealogist, I do it for fun, an avocation,most I deal with need to find a "noble" or auspicious ancestor, me I don't care,I have plenty, but they are not me, I do not stand on their shoulders nor do I wallow under their feet.
Devils or angels, they are not me, and I do not believe in the bible and that crap about the sins of the father.
The number of ancestors whose descendants turn out to be crap are legion. Same with nondescript ancestors who left no record, and who have been magnificent people that contributed to our civilization and culture. Especially true of American Descendants of Slaves who are fortunate if they can identify an ancestor who lived in 1860