RE: Why did Kentucky fight on the side of the north?
May 16, 2017 at 4:46 pm
(This post was last modified: May 16, 2017 at 4:50 pm by Gawdzilla Sama.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky_i..._Civil_War
The border staters were conflicted. Some thought well of abolition, some didn't care one way or the other, some were secessionist through and through. For example, I did a paper that included information on per capita slaver captures by the West African Squadron of the USN. I found that Northern and Southern interdiction were dead even, but "border state" captains lagged behind by 50%. Just a datum point, but with the rest of my paper it was significant.
The border staters were conflicted. Some thought well of abolition, some didn't care one way or the other, some were secessionist through and through. For example, I did a paper that included information on per capita slaver captures by the West African Squadron of the USN. I found that Northern and Southern interdiction were dead even, but "border state" captains lagged behind by 50%. Just a datum point, but with the rest of my paper it was significant.
