Depends. Do they, or did they, demand that folk who had moved to California and had profited from slavery leave all their profits where they made them? Does it make outstate folk show their passports at the borders?
I begin to think that this idea that the US is composed of different 'independent' states gives anywhere in the USA a get out of jail free card for anything, at least according to the 'states rights' promoters. Is the USA a Union or not? Does it have a common foreign policy? A single president? One Supreme Court? One constitution? Is it in fact a 'Nation-State'?
Be that as it may, as for the statement whether California had slavery or not being relevant or not is dependent upon whether California ever had any discriminatory laws against black folk and for white folk at black folks' expense.
After all, in the terms of the cartoon, and I would suggest in reality, legally enshrined prejudice is just slavery-lite.
seems to indicate that both the UK and the US (along with Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary) were involved in some way or another in oppressing the Chinese.
You may just get away with the Mexican bit, but the Irish had soldiers there too as part of the British Army as then was. :)
Using Irish troops as saying Irish supported English colonialism is kinda like using black Confederate troops to say that blacks were in support of slavery :P
To some degree. The other side of that is people like Frederick Douglass were advocating "radicalism" that is the political view of racial integration advocated in the 21st Century and while Andrew Johnson had one of the most obscene racist Administrations in US history, Grant was the only President until LBJ to try at all to do something for Civil Rights for everybody (except women).
There *were* people of the time who did advocate full racial equality and one of my favorite Union Generals, George H. Thomas was a Virginian who fought for the Blue.
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I begin to think that this idea that the US is composed of different 'independent' states gives anywhere in the USA a get out of jail free card for anything, at least according to the 'states rights' promoters.
Is the USA a Union or not? Does it have a common foreign policy? A single president? One Supreme Court? One constitution? Is it in fact a 'Nation-State'?
Be that as it may, as for the statement whether California had slavery or not being relevant or not is dependent upon whether California ever had any discriminatory laws against black folk and for white folk at black folks' expense.
After all, in the terms of the cartoon, and I would suggest in reality, legally enshrined prejudice is just slavery-lite.
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Now deal with the "Be that as it may" part.
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Mind you, the Chinese are more interesting, given that they're about to become our new overlords, rather than the victims of our oppression.
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But:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-Nation_Alliance
seems to indicate that both the UK and the US (along with Japan, Italy, France, Germany, Russia, and Austria-Hungary) were involved in some way or another in oppressing the Chinese.
You may just get away with the Mexican bit, but the Irish had soldiers there too as part of the British Army as then was. :)
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There *were* people of the time who did advocate full racial equality and one of my favorite Union Generals, George H. Thomas was a Virginian who fought for the Blue.