Who sold out the race?

[Pragmatic]

How does the increasingly tense environment leading up to the Civil War help expose who is and who is not an ally of Black Americans in their fight against slavery?

Did "some" Africans in there plight for emancipation help "sell out" our dream of "freedom"?

Was Africa "collectively" our goal after "emancipation"? Is America the “last frontier” for Africans, or will it be at last, a proving ground, for the admission and descrecration of our “free-soil” rights of passage, which destroyed our natural autonomy? Where our manhood, and womanhood became prospects, only for unfree labor. Where our work was not to take care of our family’s as nature would provide. But destroyed, and restricted to working and embracing a childlike reservation for centuries, in a foreign land, to white laborers, (endentured as "prisoner's of war) by Great Britain. Thus, improving there lives, in settlement, stolen, and manipulated from native peoples under the "Doctrine of Reception".


Is Frederick Douglas responsible for aiding and a bedding "white sentimentality" during the Civil War? If so how did it benefit African peoples?

Lincoln seen the “Big Picture” of “constitutional slavery” adopted on December 18, 1865, whom, during his time in office, contributed to the effort to preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the "secessionist" Confederate States of America in the American Civil War.

Lincoln, introduced measures that resulted in the *restoration of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which passed Congress before Lincoln's "sacrifice" to the King of Great Britian.

Was Lincoln death a sacrifice to cover up the greatest strategy in history; To secure an operational plantation system, so he wouldn’t fraudulently capitalize on the contributions, and efforts that would later become the most unequivocal mastermind appointment, yet to be heard of since Early Egyptians Pharaoh’s and there Dynasties?

Was “Preservation of the Union” the hope and preparation of "eternal" slavery? Forgoing due process of law at the astonishment and debate of there soon to be racially equalized servants of the last 13 generations of prejudice and torture?


....."In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed. There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one".

--August 18, 1864 Speech to the 164th Ohio Regiment

....."It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives".

--August 22, 1864 Speech to the One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment

....."Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. And not to Democrats alone do I make this appeal, but to all who love these great and true principles".

--August 27, 1856 Speech at Kalamazoo, Michigan


...."I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle".

--February 21, 1861 Speech to the New Jersey Senate



Lincoln believed the "primary directive of the North" was to "preserve the Union" (*Union act 1707 and 1800) and not to end slavery. He proclaimed: "If I could save the Union, without freeing the slaves, I would do it. If I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. What I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it would help to save the Union."

Frederick Douglas visit to Lincoln

In July 1863, Frederick Douglass met with Lincoln in the White House to redress the grievances that the "black troops" were suffering as second-class citizens.

It was unheard of for a "colored man" to go to the White House with a grievance. But he had many influential friends and admirers in Washington, and Senators Sumner, Wilson, and Pomeroy; Secretary of the Treasury Chase, Assistant Secretary of War, Dana, all guaranteed safe passage into Lincoln’s "presence".

Senator Pomeroy, introduced Frederick Douglass to the President and they soon found that they had much in common. The one had traveled a long hard path from the slave cabin of Maryland, and the other a thorny road from the scant and rugged life of Kentucky, to the high position of President. The one was too great to be a slave, and the other "too noble" to remain, in such a national crisis, a private citizen, *(hence, his sacrifice)

1. What did Africans gain in spoil, in the perplexing, and demanding double standard as Black citizens?
   
   
2. Did Frederick Douglas "know" about Amendment 13?
   
   
3. Was his strategy ever for "Africa"?

Sojourner Truth and “plausibility”

Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain't I a Woman?..." speech at the "1851 Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio". (The women's rights movement grew in large part out of the anti-slavery movement.) and rightly so. Mrs. Gage, recounts, white women, upset, …

….."For God's sake, Mrs. Gage, don't let her speak!" half a dozen women whispered loudly, fearing that their cause would be mixed up with Abolition.

1. Did Sojourner Truth speak on behalf of African women, and white women at the exclusion of African men?
   
   
2. As a former “slave” and thourougly "obedient to the Bible", could her convictions at the time be disempowering to “African men”?
   
   
3. Was she able to transform advocacy of faith in “White Power” as a resource in “liberation“ for black people?
   
   
4. Did Black women get “swept up” in White Privilege under “Women Suffrage?
   
   
5. Has this hurt the “Black Family"?
   
   
   
6. Are African women, “The Backbone of the African household?”
   
   
7. If so, who stands up and speaks for the Black man, if he has no “backbone” to stand up and speak for himself?
   
   
8. Is this coat of arms “proudly” being worn by Black women, helping to systematically hender the black family?

TWO YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS

In the late 1820s, Isabella (*Sojouner Truth) moved to New York City and lived among a community of "Methodist Perfectionists", men and women who met outside of the church for ecstatic worship and emphasized living simply through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Through the perfectionists, Isabella fell under the spell of the "Prophet Matthias," and lived with his cult from 1833 to 1834. This experience suggests that Isabella, although on her way to self-confidence and independence, still yearned for structure and family, but "chose an abusive situation" - Matthias often beat her - that felt familiar to her experience as John Dumont's slave.

Pg 14. From the Narrative of Sojourner Truth

….It was a fine triumph for Isabella and her master, and she became more ambitious than ever to please him; and he stimulated her ambition by his commendation, and boasting of her to his friends, telling them that “ that wench” ( pointing to Isabel) ‘is better to me than a man- for she will do a good family’s washing in the night, and be ready in the mourning to go into the field, where she will do as much at raking and binding as my best hands.’

Her ambition and desire to please were so great, that she often worked several nights in succession, sleeping only short snatches, as she sat in her chair; and some nights she would not allow herself to take any sleep, save what she could get resting herself against the wall, fearing that if she sat down, she would sleep too long. These extra exertions to please, and the praises consequent upon them, brought upon her head the envy of her fellow-slaves, and the taunted her with being the “white-folks” nigger.’

On the other hand, she received a larger share of the “confidence” of her master, and many small favors that were by them unattainable. I asked her if her master, Dumont, ever whipped her? She answered, ‘ Oh yes, he sometimes whipped me soundly, though never cruelly. And the most severe whipping he ever give me was because I was cruel to a cat’. At this time she looked upon her master a God;….


….In obedience to her mother’s instructions, she had educated herself to such a sense of honesty, that, when she had become a mother, she would sometime whip her child when it cried to her for bread, rather than give it a piece secretly, lest it should learn to take what was not its own!

….Yet Isabella glories in the fact that she was faithful and true to her master; she says, ‘ It made me true to my God’-meaning, that is helped to form in her a character that loved truth, and hated a lie, and had saved her from the bitter pains and fears that are sure to follow in the wake of insincerity and hypocrisy.

Did Isabella, later in her walk of freedom, truly come to believe that Africans, slaves, were "equal" to White men and women?



IS GOD GONE?

Sojourner Truth first met the abolitionist Frederick Douglass while she was living at the Northampton Association. Although he admired her speaking ability, Douglass was patronizing of Truth, whom he saw as "uncultured."

Years later, however, Truth would use her "plain talk" to challenge Douglass. At an 1852 meeting in Ohio, Douglass spoke of the need for blacks to seize freedom by force. As he sat down, Truth asked "Is God gone?..."

Although much exaggerated by Harriet Beecher Stowe and other writers, this exchange made Truth a symbol for faith in nonviolence and God's power to right the wrongs of slavery.


Manifest Destiny

O'Sullivan's second use of the phrase became extremely influential. On December 27, 1845 in his newspaper the New York Morning News, O'Sullivan addressed the ongoing boundary dispute with Great Britain in the Oregon Country. O'Sullivan argued that the United States had the right to claim "the whole of Oregon":

…“And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence *(Providence/the white man's god, the "King of Great Britian) has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us…”

The Treaty of Paris, signed on September 3, 1783, and approved by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14, 1784, formally ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the thirteen colonies or the United States of America, which had rebelled against British rule starting in 1775. Quick note!!!

America, fought to keep slavery as a show of solidarity to there "King" in the American Revolution of 1812, under the "Doctrine of Reception, and the supremacy act".

***It wasn't until 1661 that a reference to "slavery" entered into Virginia law.

***African people were the First "Political Prisoner's of War". Held, convicted solely on there skincolor.

***America is a federated, *(non-unitary) territory of Great Britain...


Is Manifest Destiny the expansion of Great Britain over non-white people of color and resources?

If yes, is America, as a (non-unitary) federated territory, only being used a staging ground for further occupation of “foreign lands”?


Peace be upon you