Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King: on Civil Rights


We piously judge slaveowners; would we endure peer censure?

One of our stops was the terrific Charleston museum, the oldest museum in the United States. It was very well done, with a lot of local history; I found the images of slavery on the rice plantations especially moving, and appalling. Now, barely 150 years later, we are incredulous that such an institution could exist in our midst, and somewhat piously judge these benighted souls who maintained and fought for it. I devoutly hope that we are, in fact, more enlightened; but which of us would brave the censure of our peers, given a different context? The vote for secession at the South Carolina convention of December 1860 (the precipitating factor was Lincoln's election a month before), for example, was unanimous.
Source: Governor`s Travels, by Gov. Angus King, p. 39-40 Aug 16, 2011

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