16 Oct Find My Ancestors- October 16, 2021
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PRESERVED IS PRESERVED FOREVER!
HIS MOTHER’S MAIDEN NAME WAS FISH, WHICH ILLUSTRATES WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS PRONOUNCE ALL OF THE VARIATIONS OF A NAME BEFORE BLESSING A CHILD WITH THEIR NAME.
MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE THE 1ST EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES OCCURRED IN 1862. ACTUALLY, THERE WAS AN EARLIER EMANCIPATION…
In 1836, 27 years before Lincoln abolished slavery, U.S. Congressman John Quincy Adams (and former U.S. President) first introduced the explosive question of slave emancipation and the “war power.” During a debate over reparations for refugees from Creek hostilities in Georgia and Alabama, Adams shocked his fellow Congressmen by arguing that, at least hypothetically, southern slaves could win freedom through insurrection should the federal government find it practical to grant them liberty.
The army also could impress slaves, as Andrew Jackson himself had done during the War of 1812, and it could liberate rebellious slaves or slaves of enemy combatants, all under the broad auspices of the war power.
Within two years of Adams’ speech, his arguments found their first practical application when General Thomas Sydney Jesup (pictured to the right) offered freedom to rebellious Black Seminoles in Florida. Jesup made the offer for military reasons, to separate the blacks from the Indians; this move, he wrote the Secretary of War, would “weaken [the Indians] more than the loss of the same number of their people.” Significantly, “Jesup’s proclamation,” as the Black Seminoles came to call it, was the first emancipation of rebellious blacks in U.S. history.* The emancipation was implicitly premised upon federal authority under the war powers.
THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS
If only our Great Grandparents could have come up with the $215.50 per family member!
In 1929 government debt was 16% of GDP. In 1934 (the date of the article to the left), we were at 40%. In 1946 at the end of WW2, we hit a peak of 119%, We dropped by 1974 down to 31%. By 1988 we were up to 50%. By 2010’s great recession we were at 90%. Last year with the pandemic we rose to 129%, a new record.
Now we would have to write a check for $80,885 per person!
What will our Great Grandchildren think about that in 87 years?
GREAT HOLIDAY GIFTS FROM DANCESTORS
Click on the image to the right, and you can see our custom-made by Christy collection of ancestor prints that include the names and autographs of your ancestors.
