Why did the Republicans free the Slaves?  If blacks now vote democrat anyway?
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Are you kidding? Republicans did not free the slaves. Check your history... And I know Lincoln was a Republican, but he did not free the slaves. Read a book.
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Just look at the Republicans Party not allowing them to vote today in their own elections. More strategy of the Conservatives to disrupt America for their own agendas. It's all obvious hate to the African American population in America, and a stand of white supremacists. I say it's really sick, and they are after the real estate of Americans through a natural disaster. The levies weren't being repaired just like a lot of African American neighbor hoods and streets in America. It's just another opportunity to repress the African American population. The Republicans, and George Bush are doing it all in Americas face too. Vote these people out of office, or it's going to be the end of Americas freedoms!
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Former slaves, who were only thought as property and less than human, now were counted as part of the population. And even though many went North after the end of the Civil War, most stayed in the place where they knew. So if there was a plantation, which had over a hundred slaves that were not counted as part of the population before, now were considered part of it. And as you know the House of Representatives gives as many seats out for each state depending on how many people live in the state and not on how big the state is. And more representatives meant more political power in Washington, DC. Don't forget also, that the Southern states after the Civil War were not governed by Southerners, Northerners were put in charge and Reconstruction took place (which was both positive and negitive).
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Whether or not they sold themsleves out (which I'm sure they did, capture enemies and make a few bucks sounds good) many forget that the white man also fought to free the slaves. Both races fought on both sides...this war was everyone's fault but since absolutely no one alive went through it pointing fingers hundreds of years later ir really, really pointless and stupid.
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they wanted to stop the expansion of slavery. this led 2 the confederacy 'cause the south "needed" their slaves. and that led 2 the Civil War. Lincoln did the Emancipation Proclamation to make this war officially about slavery. i have no internet sources about this, i'm just mad sick at history
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No. Freedom comes with a cost. Answered by an african-american who had ancestors that were slaves.
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Liberals have done that to whites also, but not at the rate they have to blacks.  They preach that blacks are worthless and cannot do anything unless the Democrats/government is there to hold their hands.  I think the Dems are still holding a grudge against the end of their reign as slave holders.  They even lost their hold as sharecropper overlords, KKK members and Jim Crowe law writers.  Welfare was their last trick to destroy the black race.
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If there are any black people who actually suffered under slavery still out there and alive, yes. That would be fair. As for blacks alive today, no. They suffer no hardships due to slavery that ended over a century ago. and never forget, it wasn't a brave and Nobel "slave revolt" that ended slavery, it was thousands of White men who died to enforce the emancipation proclamation. America already paid the price, in blood.
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Sorry. Have you ever had a history lesson? Has it ever occured to you that the reason the South votes Republican now is that it was almost exclusively run by Democrats, for Democrats for 120 years? During that period, we had corrupt, inefficient government, slow economic growth, terrible schools, racism, awful health care, regressive taxation, and cronyism to an unbelievable degree? Further, did you know that Southern states were far more statist economies than their northern counterparts, and far more in keeping with Democratic economic theory? With all that in mind, is it any wonder that Southerners reject the Democratic Party overwhelmingly? After all, if there was ever a laboratory for Democratic theories of governance, the South was it. \n\nNow that we have Republicans, we are actually have full employmment, less corruption, rapidly improving schools, and an economy that's rapidly outpacing the rest of the economy. \n\nSo rather than wonder why we're so stupid for voting Republican, consider for a moment that we do so out of experience.
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didn't the democrats create the KKK and such?\noh well i am a libertain so i get the best of both worlds
700610
Democrats are working for the people who voted for them.\nRepublicans do not work and do not have any support, just the homos, pedophiles and lesbians vote Republican
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Actually, believe it or not, there are a few black Republicans out there. I don't understand why they would vote Republican, because it's certainly not in their best interests. I originally come from a small town in Arkansas, and a young black woman from my hometown actually made a speech at the 2004 Republican Convention. When she was asked why she supported Bush, she basically said something along the lines of his being real and upfront. First of all, it seems that she has the wrong impression of Bush. Second of all, she failed to provide any compelling arguments for supporting him, so it makes me wonder if she really knows anything about the Republican Party platform.\n\nThis is really making me scratch my head!
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Please cite your sources for an accusation of racism in the GOP.  (Just for the record, I am NOT, and have never been, a Republican.)\nIf the GOP is racist, why did its first president - Abraham Lincoln - actively work to denounce and end slavery?  Why did a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats vote FOR the Civil Rights Act of 1964?  Why, during the current administration, did they appoint Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice to positions of power?  Why do plenty of Republicans support Ms. Rice as a candidate for President in 2008?\nPlease, even if you are, like me, not a GOP kind of person, at least give credit where credit is due.
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Lincoln asked them to abolish slavery. The Southern Sates did not agree as that would mean losing their entire workforce which worked in their plantations and farms and were the source of their wealth and economy.\n\nFaced with no choice, the Southern States left, what followed was the Civil War.
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Well, in the south back in the late 1800's and early 1900's, they used to have intelligence tests and a poll tax that would keep most blacks away.  You could also set up polling places too far away from where they live, or put too few machines in making the wait too long.
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Well all blacks are not democrats, but since some of us are born in the south, some of them don't know that the Rep party is the one who set us free, that why i'm a Black Rep!!
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It is true... While the names have differed slightly, the people who are republicans now have always sided with the easiest way out... Meaning keeping things the way the are/were rather than trying to fix the problem... Like declaring independence from England or changing the issue of slavery.