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The last of the contested border states, which we have still to mention, is Kentucky. Its recent history is particularly characteristic of the policy of the Southern Confederacy. Among its 1,135,713 inhabitants Kentucky has 225,490 slaves. In three successive general elections by the people-in the winter of 1861, when elections to a congress of the border states were held; in June 1861, when elections to the Congress in Washington took place; finally, in August 1861, in elections to the legislature of the State of Kentucky-an ever increasing majority decided for the Union. On the other hand, Magoffin, the Governor of Kentucky, and all the high officials of the state are fanatical supporters of the slaveholders' party...

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The last of the contested border states, which we have still to mention, is Kentucky. Its recent history is particularly characteristic of the policy of the Southern Confederacy. Among its 1,135,713 inhabitants Kentucky has 225,490 slaves. In three successive general elections by the people-in the winter of 1861, when elections to a congress of the border states were held; in June 1861, when elections to the Congress in Washington took place; finally, in August 1861, in elections to the legislature of the State of Kentucky-an ever increasing majority decided for the Union. On the other hand, Magoffin, the Governor of Kentucky, and all the high officials of the state are fanatical supporters of the slaveholders' party...
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ah! this gives me a reason to introduce Karl Marx’s hot takes on the Civil War and its most interesting “border”, aka Union Southern State.
Marx’s description of Kentucky’s class war at the ballot box in the 1860s, explains why MLK (in the 1960s) and later Fred Hamptom (in the 1970s), wanted to bring the CRM to the Appalachias thru Kentucky: rigged elections kept the oligarchy in power and the democratic masses out.
and explains their assassinations.
https://libcom.org/library/american-civil-war-karl-marx
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