On the Purple Martin Universe forum, a thread named "Southern Landlords?" was asking what southern martin landlord numbers were. It gave me pause, living in central Kentucky, am I a southern landlord? Kentucky stayed neutral during the Civil War because President Lincoln allowed our commonwealth to keep our slaves if we stayed neutral, the only state allowed to do so.
Even after the Civil War, Kentucky had slaves and did not give them up until Lincoln promised the Kentucky slave owners to make it worth their while if they freed them. Kentucky then freed their slaves, but Lincoln reneged on his promise. And although Lincoln was born in Hodgensville Kentucky just 40 miles from our hometown my grandfather, who heard stories from his grandfather, was still angry at Lincoln until the day my grandfather died.
Maybe Lincoln was killed before he could fulfill his promise to Kentucky and Andrew Johnson refused to honor the promise, who knows. But the question remains, living in Kentucky, am I a southern landlord?
It probably doesn't matter, I have no scouts that have returned yet. But I am now definitely in that window of time where they start to return.
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