The Senate Apologizes for Slavery and Jim Crow Laws — But Why?
My side of the family was all northern during the civil war but mother’s family was the Gores. In the very early eighteenth century while trading with the Indians in the Wisconsin area, the Indians did not have enough beaver pelts to pay for the whole load of guns and whiskey so threw a girl into the trade. The idea that women cannot be traded in place of beaver pelts never occurred to most Indians. My Grandfather Gore’s fifth cousin Al Gore can apologize to himself.
Nearly all remaining descendents of white southern slaveholders are black. So many lines of white slave holders were killed off in the civil war only their black lines survived. The North had generals, Sheridan and Sherman, engaged in looting through the southern countryside and cities and the south was on the loosing side. Of the six hundred odd thousand Americans killed in the civil war they were disproportionally white southern males from slave holding families who were doing the fighting,
