Lincoln’s Army of Slaves

Here are some interesting historical facts that you will never see in anything Harry Jaffa has ever written (not that there are many actual facts, period, in any of his writings). From North against South (p. 134)by Ludwell Johnson, who taught history at William and Mary for many years: In 1864, “Faced with a shrinking labor supply and rising wages, Northeastern businessmen and politicians lobbied for a law permitting state draft quotas to be credited with blacks recruited in occupied parts of the South. With Lincoln’s help they succeeded, and about 1000 state agents set out for Dixie and eventually … Continue reading Lincoln’s Army of Slaves