USCT ENDED THE SLAVE TRADE
As I read THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE (1896) by W. E. B. DuBois, I have already learned that the only thing that suppressed that infernal trade was the Civil War.
Neither law, nor public sentiment, nor threat of prosecution nor ostracism stopped it. Nothing but a victory by the North over the South suppressed it, finally, completely, irrevocably.
Since it was the 200,000 black troops and sailors who won their "Freedom War" in the end, after the 1863 executive order enabling their enlistment , provisioning, training, organization, equal pay (finally in 1864), was signed by President Abraham Lincoln , it would be fair, reasonable and true to say that it was, in fact, United States Colored Troops (USCT) who suppressed the African slave trade with their blood, bullets, bayonets, bombs, bravery!
Thursday, August 18, 2016
USCT ENDED THE SLAVE TRADE
USCT ENDED THE SLAVE TRADE
As I read THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE (1896) by W. E. B. DuBois, I have already learned that the only thing that suppressed that infernal trade was the Civil War.
Neither law, nor public sentiment, nor threat of prosecution nor ostracism stopped it. Nothing but a victory by the North over the South suppressed it, finally, completely, irrevocably.
Since it was the 200,000 black troops and sailors who won their "Freedom War" in the end, after the 1863 executive order enabling their enlistment , provisioning, training, organization, equal pay (finally in 1864), was signed by President Abraham Lincoln , it would be fair, reasonable and true to say that it was, in fact, United States Colored Troops (USCT) who suppressed the African slave trade with their blood, bullets, bayonets, bombs, bravery!