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by alexpw
2765 days ago
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"Modern Thanksgiving was first officially called for in all states in 1863 by a presidential proclamation of Abraham Lincoln. [...]Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving on the final Thursday in November, explicitly in celebration of the bounties that had continued to fall on the Union and for the military successes in the war." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving It's easy to see why the "Southern States Saw Thanksgiving as an Act of Nothern Aggression" from Lincoln's action. He extended the meaning of the celebration to include victory of the North over the South, and asked the South to observe it, according to wikipedia. |
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>Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
Freedom only decreased if you saw black slaves as non-human. They were a majority of the population in many southern states.
"Southern states saw" in the headline is probably ignoring the black population, but I'm not sure. It was only many years later that there were large migrations, after the reconstruction promises passed them over, "vagrancy" was heavily outlawed, and they effectively lost the vote.