Talk:David Wilmot
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[edit] David Wilmot -- No-Nothings change with the times
In the 1840s, I believe that the slave-holding Southerners were typically the Democrats. I just finished Ulysses S. Grant's Memoirs, who was a Northerner who married into a Democratic, slave-holding family. His father, Jesse Grant, grew up with John Brown, the radical abolitionist.
It must have been unforgivable to have his son Ulysses marry into a slave-holding, Democratic family. Ulysses didn't think slavery was a good idea - and his dark-night-of-the-soul was pretty wrapped up in these issues, I would imagine.
Trying to apply the term racism to the people in the 1830-1860s who weren't abolitionists, using modern terms, could be true. The USA had spent half a century trying to make sure the English, French and Spanish were ousted. Considering that Africans were more people --at that time-- from another country, and under duress, too, didn't make them earmarked to be an exception.
Many people in the No-Nothing party started out as separatists, and after the civil war, transmuted into Republicans, hanging their hat 100% for the Reformation and the Advancement of former slaves. I'll have to research further to see if David Wilmot was one of these -- a quick search returns nothing. :)
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