Submitted by ChronosBlitz t3_yzl9zr in todayilearned
You know you're unpleasant when Jefferson Davis off all folks is like "Whoa, slow down buddy, you're fired."
It was named after John’s uncle
But mostly I feel corrupt
And what a fine specimen he was,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Emmett_Bledsoe_Baylor
> During the Civil War, Baylor supported the Confederacy and the grounds of Baylor University, then in Independence, were used as a training and staging ground for the Confederate Army.[8][9] Baylor's nephew, John R. Baylor, was a prominent leader in the Confederacy serving as both a governor and later as a member of the Confederate Congress. > >
> In his role as a judge, he once punished an abolitionist harboring an escaped slave. Another man was punished for not returning a borrowed slave promptly. In 1854, Judge Baylor sentenced a slave to hang for arson. In 1856, he ordered the execution of yet another slave. In 1857, he levied a heavy fine on a white person who bought some bacon from a slave. And in 1862, as the Civil War raged, he ordered the execution of a slave for “intent to rape a white female.”[8]
Baylor was a slave owner. A report commissioned by Baylor University found that of 1856, he owned four slaves; the 1860 Census records him as owning 33 slaves.[10]
In addition to the disgusting aspect of his history, there's the odd reference,
> In 1839, he converted to Christianity and was ordained a Baptist minister.[1]
'Converted'?
"I'm all for enslaving and torturing millions, but that's just too much."
- Jefferson Davis (probably)
This feels like when John Bolton thought Donald Trump went too far. They’re both still garbage people.
Strong King Leopold and the Congo vibes.
Europe was like: "What the fuck Leopold, colonise the Congo but that's extreme even for us."
He was probably a different Christian sect till he switched over
Probably butt hurt cause he was thinning out potential slaves, since they weren't getting new ones
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Oh come on.
That's what most MAGA people want.
He doesn't sound much different than some of the people in our government right now.
And the reason Kentucky stayed in the Union was because it at first declared itself to be neutral, and while Lincoln was ready to de facto respect this (even if he didn't exactly think that 'being neutral' was something Kentucky had a legal right to do), a Confederate general called Leonidas Polk just decided to invade the place, even though he had no orders to do so and the Confederate government had no reason to open up another new front for them to defend.
For being a rebellion supposedly to protect the authority of their state governments and their personal freedoms, Confederates seemed to have a very bad habit of just going along with what the new central government demands from its members and citizens, and that government in turn letting itself be wagged by random army officers who decided they were in charge of national strategy.
Most confederates were.
'Converted to Christianity' means that he wasn't a Christian before becoming a Baptist. I know that some Christians believe that if you're not a member of their church then you're not a Christian. But that doesn't fit with the standards that Wiki is supposed to be applying.
I would guess it's because Native Americans fought for the confederacy but i can't remember which groups exactly maybe not the Apache think it may have been the Cherokee
clydesmooth t1_ix0zkzs wrote
This dude was an all around piece of garbage