Message from @Billy Ray Jenkins
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We also had Jewish politicians by the 1820s and suppsoedly a Jewish governor in Georgia in 1801
though his Jew status is somewhat questionable
They set in motion the catalyst to topple the monarchies throughout Europe. I get that.
You have that video of the Jewish southerner saying white nationalists are stupid when they use the confederate flag because they had a Jewish leader or something
It's more symbology. The narrative that this country was always for everyone that I'm talking about.
I'm not saying they were perfect.
An actual website on the BBC
The odd thing is the Jews always supported the Democrats for the most part. Abraham Lincoln was very close with a Sephardic Jew Abraham Jonas who was from Kentucky via England
most of Jonas's family were all Confederates
his son became a US Senator from Louisiana in 1879
Here's the thing though
Jonas was an oddity
Most of the Sephardic Jewish old Jew Establishment in the USA all supported the Southern Confederacy
Why
in fact the large Confederate scuplture at Arlington was done by a Jewish Confederate
Why did Jews support the confederacy
Well for two reasons
One was because the Confederates were all Democrats and as almost all of the Jews were Democrats it was the natural course
Two was because of the Slave Trade and the Southern Crop trade with England
Mmm
so that the British could sail directly over and pick it up
it was much easier to sail to NYC then all the way to new Orleans
so New York City became a Southern warehouse town
Baltimore was also a Warehosue Town because of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal
so was Philadelphia
The Jews controlled the warehouses alot of them
The other problem was Abolitionism was partially based in New Testament Christianity. Some of the Christian groups taught that as Christ said to GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD
that meant Negroes
So any perceived Christian Organization was ananthema to Jews
That didnt mean all Abolitonists were Christian plenty were Atheist and some were Jews
Why didn't the north confess all the stuff the south owned in the werehouses
but it started in the Chiristian Churches
They did confiscate it
that pissed the Jews off
Did they do anything
The German Jews who had come over to the North weren't politically powerful like the Jews in the South, they were in 1861 basically shopkeepers
The Southern Jews were wealthy Cotton and Tobacco traders and Dry Goods men
So the Jews who had remained Loyal to the North made alot of demands
and Lincoln filled them I believe largely because he was afraid the Jews would leverage all their financial power behind the CSA