Ok, the slave Grant owned for about a year was a Missouri slave acquired by marriage into a slave-holding family. He set the slave free. No reason to slander Mr Grant further as a slaver.
Following West Point, Grant was stationed as a second lieutenant near St. Louis, Missouri, where he met Julia Dent, a plump eighteen-year-old with a slightly turned eye. Her outgoing and happy demeanor attracted Grant, as well as their shared love of riding horses. Julia had been raised with the pretensions of Southern aristocracy. Her father, who called himself “Colonel” Dent even though he had no military experience, owned twenty slaves -- a lifestyle alien to Grant, who was raised under his father’s stern abolitionist philosophy.
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They were married at the family’s winter home in St. Louis, but without Ulysses’ parents in attendance. “Grant’s father, the abolitionist, really couldn’t forgive his connection to a slave-holding family. So it was a great source of tension,” says Max Byrd, author of Grant: A Novel. Within the year, Ulysses Grant freed the slave he had acquired through his marriage to Julia.
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Reread the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and tell me again what the Founding Fathers thought of slavery.
Well, if they thought it was a good thing they'd have named it in those documents. They avoided even the word. Because they knew it was a source of trouble and disunion. |
