Massachusetts, the heart of the “Yankee” empire, was not always a sanctuary state. On page 194 of his book, The Slave Catchers (University of North Carolina Press, 1970), historian Stanley W. Campbell wrote that:
“When the Boston Post, on October 30, 1862, reported that five hundred families of contraband Negroes were to be sent to Massachusetts, Governor John Albion Andrew promptly refused to permit them to come.” This prompted the editor of the National Intelligencer to write:
“It . . . seems that the introduction of members of this oppressed race into a State where they are supposed to have so many sympathizing friends is not regarded with favor by the people of Massachusetts . . . . The ‘African’ is a ‘brother,’ but South Carolina, not Massachusetts, is left to be the ‘brother’s keeper.'”
These were “families who were faced with disease and starvation and in need of help,” wrote Campbell. He then says it is “ironic” that Massachusetts refused to help these poor souls because even a decent scholar like himself was apparently bamboozled by the Official (false) History of the war — that equality-loving New England Yankees were willing to die by the tens of thousands purely for the benefit of black strangers in the South.
Reminds one of how Nancy Pelosi and other bigshot Democrats threw an apoplectic fit when Trump proposed sending illegal aliens (“little gifts of love,” as Nancy called them) to sanctuary cities like San Francisco.
6:39 pm on May 20, 2019
