Jose Navarro, as a young man under the ideological sway of his uncle sided with his mother’s family, and supported independence, while his older brother, head of the family after his father’s death, attempted to lead the family towards the loyalists. #HistoryBio #JANavarro
#HistoryBio #JANavarro the revolutions of Spanish America were really a fight to fill the power vacuum left when Napoleon’s invasion of Spain interrupted central oversight. Sides fought to stay loyal to the crown or become independent.
Thirty new slaves in one lifetime. That’s a hell of a return on investment.
Slavery gave rape and incest an economic incentive.
Aaron may not have raped them all and fathered them all, but he did father some of them, and under the circumstances, it must have been rape. #HistoryBio
Violent strikes, strikes that looked like war or massacres, were a regular part of the Gilded Age. #HistoryBio #JayGould
#JayGould #HistoryBio most of the above comes from the book Jay Gould: American Rascal.
Players gonna play, and pay. #HistoryBio. #JayGould’s Erie Railroad Headquarters was in a theater. The offices faced out to the street, with the theater tucked in behind. His partner, James Fisk worked all day, and partied all night.
#HistoryBio Who is Boss Tweed? I’m glad you asked.
#HistoryBio I had the honor of attending one of Jimmy Carter’s Sunday School classes late in his life. I’m not one to refer to such things as “an honor.” My sense of democratic equality is too much, but the obvious power of his intelligence, faith, and morality was overwhelming.
Judge George Bernard, “numbered among the Vanderbilt properties,” was a Yake graduate and failed prospector who knew “as much about law as a yellow dog.” He relied on Vanderbilt’s lawyers to write his opinions. #HistoryBio #JayGould
In 1884 Jefferson Davis finally realized that black people only ever worked for him because he had the full weight of state violence behind him. He saw this as a great tragedy…for himself. #HistoryBio #JeffDavis
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it’s interesting that #JeffDavis faith in God deepened during the civil war. I don’t mean that sarcastically. Just think about it.
#HistoryBio #JeffDavis the core of Davis’ defense team were Northern Democrats. Prominent New York defense attorney Charles O’Connor took the lead, but on the team were former U.S. President Franklin Pierce,…
#HistoryBio #JeffDavis on May 10th, 1865 Jefferson Davis was captured a day’s ride southwest of Abbeville, Georgia by troops from the 4th Michigan and 1st Wisconsin cavalries.
…to join up with Johnston and hunt for a series of decisive battles. That’s kind of dumb.
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“The day you make soldiers of them (slaves) is the beginning of the end of the Revolution. If slaves will make good soldiers our whole theory of slavery is wrong” -Howell Cobb, 1865, Georgia
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With Atlanta, Savannah, and Charleston captured, the last port, Wilmington closed, Sherman rampaging through the Carolinas, and Grant squeezing Richmond, Davis still held out for terms. .
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In 1864 Davis told an unofficial delegation from DC that he had “not one drop of the blood shed in this war on my hands…I can look at my God and say this.”
Fuck this jackass. This dude tried to break the perpetual Union, and he ordered the assault on Ft Sumter.
A weird thing about the Confederacy is that its central government was powerful and active. It authorized conscription before the Union, suspended habeas corpus, and had legalized impressment of material. That, and the Executive dominated the other branches.
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Southern unity is a distortion attached to the “lost-cause,” myth. The South had as much dissent as any land engaged in a self inflicted disaster.
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