Tuesday, May 20, 2014

May 1861

The photo in this post is from May 1861, they it shows the U.S. Capitol Building under construction.

 I got a question -- " If slaves were working on the Capitol Building "during the war", who was in charge of them ? 
The US Government ? And if it was the USA. who was in charge of the Country at the time ? Lincoln ?

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4 comments:

  1. David Tatum JrMay 20, 2014 at 9:04 PM

    A friend sent me this

    http://cwcrossroads.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/slave-labor-and-the-building-of-the-us-capitol/

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  2. StanMay 21, 2014 at 4:09 AM

    Amen brother! The war had nothing to do with slavery until Lincoln was loosing big time and had to pull support from every where he could find it (and away from the South as people realized that the South was completely within it's rights to secede.)

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  3. David Tatum JrMay 21, 2014 at 11:54 AM

    A comment came in from the Phantom Zone--

    "Well that link makes you look like those Heritage folks Brooks was talking about in his post doesn't it. Guess someone should have done his homework before he asked the question...LOL"

    Yeeesh, ya gotta explain everything to some people !---

    - "A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point."

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  4. David Tatum JrMay 21, 2014 at 11:58 AM

    It's a rhetorical question --
    "A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point."
    Say hello to Gen ZOD !

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