Daniel Clark Quotes
The Master will allow him no home, that he may become a vagrant. Becoming a vagrant, he will arrest him as a vagabond, and visit him with imprisonment and stripes ... He will shut him off from the courts, seal his mouth as a witness.
Daniel Clark, 1809-1891, U. S. Senator (New Hampshire), Description of the plight of the emancipated slaves in the South, Senate Debate on Reconstruction policies, ~1866
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Incredibly enough, after the Civil War and emancipation, most Virginia leaders opposed any form of rights for Blacks with one of the major reasons being that they were ignorant and uneducated. It was actually a crime to teach even a free Black to read.
Johnson was sentenced to jail in about 1900 for having a boxing match in Texas where Johnson beat a white boxer. His opponent was jailed with him for the integrated fight. At the same time, Texas was notorious for allowing a man whose wife had committed adultery to the rival man and often the wife as well. The practice gradually was outlawed but many Texas juries refused to convict such a man and murderers often got away unpunished. It was only in the 1970’s that the practice was almost eliminated, but even so, occasionally a murdering husband would be acquitted by a Texas jury acting in the Texas tradition. It is interesting to examine this historical fact in the light of modern “honor killings” of adulterous women in some Muslim societies.
Newsletter of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans
Parker and other escaped slaves in Christiana fought off slave catchers and killed the slave owner leading them. Charged with treason, he escaped to Canada with his family and lived there the rest of his life. While not a polished writer, after he himself had escaped and went to Christiana and leaned to read and write. He wrote this narrative of his life as a slave—one of the few written works we have from slaves.
Lincoln was worried about Louisiana reverting back to the slavery era. He was right to be worried, and led the fight to pass the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery forever. So the white racist elements of Louisiana used Jim Crowe discrimination instead.
After the Civil War and Reconstruction, the American nation was still bitterly divided intelelctually, socially, emotionally and poliotically. In an effort to bring more unity to America, most of the power stucture and the influentials of the nation began to avoid those issues that would divide North and South and try and promote a narrative that both sides might be able to live with. And this is what Zeitz describes in this quotation. America went through a period of Revisionist History that even in the 21st century was held by many people. It wasn't until the middle of the 20th century that the real history and narrative of the Civil War and Reconstrution emerged from the few academics who had all along criticized the fabricated narritive that did unify the country at the cost of historical accuracy and truth. Many scholars point out that the price that America paid for this unity was the Jim Crow era and a century of legalized racism. Much of the nation was built on the labor of Negro slaves and the victims of the slavery era, also bore the brunt of American unity and reconcilliation.
He was not only an atheist himself, but he was a major opponent of organized religion which he regarded as one or the major initiators and drivers of slavery, segregation and discrimination. For this reason he was critical of Martin Luther King—{583307}. His irreligiosity had always prevented his gaining much support from his fellow African Americans even though a great writer like H. L. Menken considered Schuyler, "the best writer in America".
The first sentence is inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. The last two sentences are rarely quoted.
Daniel Clark was a United States Senator from New Hampshire and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire
