3 replies on “Learning Day: The Confederate Alphabet”
In all fairness, the Confeferates’ uniforms degenerating to “suggestions” was quite true to reality, too.
Emancipation Beans is goddamned fantastic! i love when you end sentences with a quick funny slap in the face like that
Fun fact:
I lived in Memphis the same time they finally had the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest taken down, so he was a popular subject locally during that period.
This asshole would have an engraved, spike-covered seat waiting for him in Hell just for the things he’s popularly known for, like being one of the founders of the KKK…
BUT it gets worse. He was a criminal even by Confederate law: The South banned importing Africans for the slave trade in the 1820s, after that, legally all enslaved people in the South were at least second generation…
… LEGALLY, anyway.
There was a belief among slave owners that “fresh off the boat” slaves were more docile and less rebellious than their plantation-raised kin.
Whether or not this was true is immaterial, slave owners believed it, and were willing to pay through the nose for “uncorrupted goods”😕
This demand was met by black market traders like Forrest, who became one of the richest men in the Confederacy through his illicit (even according to his own government) enterprises.
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3 replies on “Learning Day: The Confederate Alphabet”
In all fairness, the Confeferates’ uniforms degenerating to “suggestions” was quite true to reality, too.
Emancipation Beans is goddamned fantastic! i love when you end sentences with a quick funny slap in the face like that
Fun fact:
I lived in Memphis the same time they finally had the statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest taken down, so he was a popular subject locally during that period.
This asshole would have an engraved, spike-covered seat waiting for him in Hell just for the things he’s popularly known for, like being one of the founders of the KKK…
BUT it gets worse. He was a criminal even by Confederate law: The South banned importing Africans for the slave trade in the 1820s, after that, legally all enslaved people in the South were at least second generation…
… LEGALLY, anyway.
There was a belief among slave owners that “fresh off the boat” slaves were more docile and less rebellious than their plantation-raised kin.
Whether or not this was true is immaterial, slave owners believed it, and were willing to pay through the nose for “uncorrupted goods”😕
This demand was met by black market traders like Forrest, who became one of the richest men in the Confederacy through his illicit (even according to his own government) enterprises.