I'm saying 10 out of 10 kentuckians could think they are southern and they'd be wrong.
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100-125,000 kentuckians, including 25-28000 african americans were in the Union armies, 50,000 white volunteers and another 20,000 state militia. 10,000 died in the war. No full accounting of the Confederate numbers exists because many records was destroyed but the estimate is 40,000.
A House Divided
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In the north and east, Kentuckians were ideologically and economically moving away from slavery. Economically, the area was diversifying. More and more of these Kentuckians broadened their traditional tobacco-and-hemp livelihoods by cultivating grains and cereals, breeding horses and livestock and manufacturing goods. By 1850, they had given Kentucky the South?s second broadest economic base. Generally, a more diversified economy meant less reliance on slavery, which helps to explain Kentucky?s rising emancipation ideology. Already, diversified Kentucky had a profitable market in the excess slaves sold to the Deep South. It was only a step further, then, to support emancipation, which called for a gradual and compensated end to slavery.
Why is this important? Well, because it's what I said earlier.
Appealing to arbitrary designations of economic loyalty isn't going to change present and apparent, verifiable facts. Sorry.
To which you responded with an appeal to emotion.
dysphemism. Shitty one. It wasn't just economic loyalty. We shed fucking blood, we sheltered freed slaves, we drove out members of our state who sided with the Confederates. We drew blood for the cause and shed blood too.
Oh. You shed blood. What about the 40 thousand troops who shed blood for the other side? You hid freed slaves?
But you didn't actually free your own. In fact just before the war you erected one of the most powerful pro-slavery constitutions in the union and refused to free the salves until after the war was decided (Citation below.)
Kentucky Government Cited Below._sl said:
The 1850 Constitution was drafted in the midst of the conflicts over slavery. Pro-slavery factions dominated the convention proceedings and were successful in incorporating a significant number of changes into the state?s fundamental law. In the Bill of Rights to the 1850 Constitution, slave property was given added protection by a provision that slaves and their offspring should remain in the state, and that ministers of religion, long under suspicion as anti-slavery agitators, could not hold the office of Governor or seats in the General Assembly.
Citation: Legislative Research Commission. Kentucky Government Informational Bulletin 137.
You're trying to say Kentucky was noble, but it didn't answer the call of the Union. In 1861 your Governor said.
"President Lincoln, Washington, D.C. I will send not a man nor a dollar for the wicked purpose of subduing my sister Southern states."
Kentucky remained neutral until a Northern army aided the economically diverse northern section of your state, who was NOT reliant on slavers for their wealth (As noted in YOUR citation) to take over the state government in an election where half the state did not vote. Kentucky was a whore who tried to play both sides, and when two armies on her borders made that impossible, she sided with the one who made economic sense and had a better chance of winning--while simultaneously sending troops and supplies to the South to make sure they and an "in" on the off chance the South won.
