A Humane Element in Southern Secession

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A Humane Element in Southern Secession

By Rod O'BarrSeptember 15, 2023

 “You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated.”  (Lincoln address delivered at Washington, D.C.; The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Volume V, pages 371-375.)

As revealed by these words of Lincoln in 1863, Northern “anti-slavery” was for the most part an “anti-black” sentiment. Having ended Northern slavery because it could not be made profitable, the North had ostracized its few remaining blacks into segregated shanty towns; even digging up the bodies of black people in town cemeteries to complete the ethnic cleansing. New England’s desire for racial purification spread across a segregated North. It segregated the few blacks that remained in the North from Northern society. This led to a lack of social interaction and a distrust and distaste for those blacks that were alienated and different. The result was colonization societies springing up across the North that sought to rid the North of the few remaining blacks.