Weatherman2020
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And while his slave was worth $1,000 in 1859 dollars, and Grant was broke, he granted him his legal freedom instead of selling him.Well, he did own a personal servant, a slave he bought, who he freed a couple years before the war. If we're going to repeat the history, let's repeat the whole thing, please. People can decide if that is a good reason to pull down his statue. But imo they ought to get the bill, too.These fools are history challenged
Another sad prime example of public education fail.
Fools in Great Britain tried to take down a Abraham Lincoln statue. I guess they've never heard of the Emancipation Proclamation
Or they know exactly what they are doing, and any sin against current orthodoxy equals being declared an unperson.
Grant married a slave owning woman? Down with Grant
Lincoln was slow in emancipating the slaves? Down with Lincoln
Statue is of some white guy even if he was an abolitionist? Who cares, take it down anyway.
Grant also worked with them in the fields, free a man
Myths & Misunderstandings | Grant as a slaveholder
LINK
Excerpt:
"Finding farming less lucrative than he’d hoped, Grant asked his father for a loan. Jesse Grant reportedly replied, “Ulysses, when you are ready to come North I will give you a start, but so long as you make your home among a tribe of slave-owners I will do nothing.”
After the death of Julia’s mother, the Grant family left “Hardscrabble” and moved to her father’s farm, “White Haven,” which Grant managed from 1854-1859. Novelist Hamlin Garland, an early biographer who spoke with Grant’s Missouri neighbors, wrote,
“The use of slaves on the farm…was a source of irritation and shame to Grant. Jefferson Sapington told me that he and Grant used to work in the fields with the blacks. He said with glee, ‘Grant was helpless when it came to making slaves work,’ and Mrs. Boggs corroborated this. ‘He was no hand to manage negroes,’she said. ‘He couldn’t force them to do anything. He wouldn’t whip them. He was too gentle and good tempered and besides he was not a slavery man.’”
Whether or not Grant wasn’t a “slavery man” by inclination, we know he briefly owned William Jones. He does not mention Jones in his memoirs or other writings, so the exact nature of their relationship remains a mystery. We do know that in March 1859 Grant filed the following manumission document."