The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1920-01-10
THE NEW EMANCIPATION
Events Incident to tn e
E m a n c ip a tion
Proclamation
BY JAMES C. coTTER.

History tells us that at Jamestown,
Virginia, in the year 1919, Dutch
trading vessel landed group of 20
Africans who were at once sold into
slavery. Some writers have said that
this was the beginning of the so-calied
race problem in the United States of
America. They were then twenty in
number but on January 1st, 1868,
this twenty had increased to four
millions. 1t is indeed, most note
worthy fact of the history of social
progress that it required two and one
half centuries under the old slave
system to produce four millions of
people, while under the new slave
system land say new system, be-
cause we are still slaves, after a
fashion, our increase has amounted
to some eight millions in the short
space of fifty years.
One of the reasons for the remark
able success of the old slave system
was the fact that the slave holder
held absolute control over the Negro
mind. Here was the psychology OF
slavery in America. The Negro was
not taught, nor was he permitted to
think. He was only made to feel the
power of his master. He was made
to feel that slavery was right and this
feeling was so profound that it ling
cred with him even during the Civil
war and for long time thereafter
And, they say there are some of oul
people in this country to-day who are
still living upon the same plantations
in the Southland where they were
born before the war.
When England under George Ill.
was pressing her iron heel hard upon
the necks of the American Colonies
in the eighteenth century, the Negro
was told that if he would take up
arms for American independence
they would give him his freedom.
Some sixty thousand Negroes fought
side by side with their masters. And
the Negro race offered the first sacri-
flee of human life on Boston Com
mon; and yet, when the war was
over and the victory was won fol-
America, he was returned to his
chains. We next find him at New
Orleans with Andrew Jackson in the
war of 1912. He then proved his
prowess as a fighter and wrote his
record among the galaxy of stars
that illuminate the military armament
of this country. We next find him with
Grant in the Civil war, on the side OF
the Union fighting for his own free
dom. And, you remember that up to
this time the fortunes OF war had
been against the. Union Armies, and
Abraham Lincoln had offered to pay
the South for her slaves and end the
war. But, with the aid of the Negro
the tide of battle began to turn and
finally the Union armies swept on
to victory and the shackles of slavery
fell from the weary limbs of the
Negro race.
1t has been declared by some that
the Civil war was fought for the
Emancipation of the Negro. Let US
see if this is true.
shall now briefly review few OF
the causes which precipitated the
civil war. Prior to the civil war there
was great sectional feeling. Thi:
feeling was the result of political ano
place the economic inequality of slave
economic conditions. In the frs
labor in the South with the free Labor
of the North was source of constan1
friction between the the two sections
Moreover. the slave labor of the
South produced all the cotton. Thi!
cotton was shipped to England fol-
her factories where it was converted
into clothing, shipped back to thi!
country and placed in the market a
cheaper price than the merchant!