Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, lecturer and poet, proposes to the Anti-Slavery Society of New York that 200,000,000 Dollars be raised for the purchase and immediate emancipation of every slave in the voluntary Union.
NOTE: This price would have been far cheaper than the 6,200,000,000 Dollars that the War of Federal Aggression did cost—31 times greater. Along with the 620,000 to 750,000 lives claimed by the war itself, and the 3,000 some lynchings of freedmen that occurred during the “Long Night” (1877 – 1954).
[updated 3/20/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Article I of Amendment
ccc-2point0.com/constitution-for-the-united-states
References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 146.
Cost Of The American Civil War
www.civilwarhome.com/warcosts.html
NAACP | History of Lynchings
www.naacp.org/history-of-lynchings/
Current U.s. National Debt:
