I am doing a project on Jefferson Davis in social studies and my teacher was talking about this question. Jefferson Davis felt that John Brown's activities were wrong and his behavior was wrong. John Brown was basically killing slaves and Jefferson Davis did not like this. Jefferson Davis was a loyal man and respected his slaves. He was a kind slaveowner from the south. When John Brown was killing the slaves in "Bleeding Kansas", Jefferson Davis did not like it because they were killing innocent slaves who Jefferson Davis respected and considered slaves as people
He was President of the Confederacy. He had hoped to be General-in-Chief instead, and tried to combine the two roles. He was out of his depth in both, not able to control either his cabinet or his Generals.
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War, therefore it's safe to assume that he was in favor of allowing African Americans to be owned as slaves and granted very few rights. The fact that his vacated senate seat was eventually filled by the first African American senator is ironic in that the ability to participate in the government and politics was precisely the kind of power that the racist southern whites had fought so hard to keep out of the hands of the African Americans.
Jefferson is on the two dollar bill and the nickel.
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I am doing a project on Jefferson Davis in social studies and my teacher was talking about this question. Jefferson Davis felt that John Brown's activities were wrong and his behavior was wrong. John Brown was basically killing slaves and Jefferson Davis did not like this. Jefferson Davis was a loyal man and respected his slaves. He was a kind slaveowner from the south. When John Brown was killing the slaves in "Bleeding Kansas", Jefferson Davis did not like it because they were killing innocent slaves who Jefferson Davis respected and considered slaves as people
He was President of the Confederacy. He had hoped to be General-in-Chief instead, and tried to combine the two roles. He was out of his depth in both, not able to control either his cabinet or his Generals.
Yes, and notably kind to his slaves, considering he was operating so far South ("down the river"). But he had been born in Kentucky, like Lincoln.
The Confederate States of America was a club of eleven slave-states that seceded from the USA because they were being increasingly outvoted in Congress, which then passed laws unfavourable to them. As their first (and only) President, they elected Jefferson Davis, who looked like the right kind of figurehead, embodying Confederate values. He was a traditional planter-aristocrat with a respectable record as a Colonel in the Mexican war. In the event, he turned out quite inadequate for the job, unable to control his cabinet, and always feuding with his Generals.
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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War, therefore it's safe to assume that he was in favor of allowing African Americans to be owned as slaves and granted very few rights. The fact that his vacated senate seat was eventually filled by the first African American senator is ironic in that the ability to participate in the government and politics was precisely the kind of power that the racist southern whites had fought so hard to keep out of the hands of the African Americans.
Jefferson is on the two dollar bill and the nickel.
republican
He wants it to be a war in the best Confederate spirit - plenty of romantic cavalry charges and legendary acts of bravery. This leads to disaster. His unwise choice of Generals does much to lose him the war.
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