The United States of America didn't invent slavery, nor did we introduce it to the shores of America.
When the Nation was founded and the Constitution written, the founders had to deal with the reality that half of the Country used slave labor and would have fought with England if they couldn't continue to do so.
There would have been no United States of America because much of the money and military talent came from Virginia...a slave state.
Slavery was only legal in the USA for 78 years, not the 400 years that all the race pimps whine about, before the American revolution, this was a British Nation.
Why aren't the black race baiters pissed at England and happy with the USA for ending slavery?
What I don’t understand is how people today can talk about slavery with anything but disdain.
If it were legal for a single day it would be a disgrace.
And it doesn’t matter whether it was common or not. They buying and selling of people is just wrong.
Why aren’t the black race baiters pissed at England and happy with the USA for ending slavery?
Why aren’t they pissed at the nations in Africa and the Middle East who still practice slavery?
“The United States of America didn’t invent slavery, nor did we introduce it to the shores of America.
When the Nation was founded and the Constitution written, the founders had to deal with the reality that half of the Country used slave labor and would have fought with England if they couldn’t continue to do so.
There would have been no United States of America because much of the money and military talent came from Virginia...a slave state.”
Thank you for making that point! Thomas Jefferson addressed this and would have liked to end slavery, but fact is the revolution could have never succeeded if they had taken on doing away with slaves at the same time. Heck, we haven’t solved the problems of emancipation yet.
In a prophetic letter decades earlier ,
President Thomas Jefferson expressed
the fears of many of his contemporaries over conflicts
of states’ rights, westward settlement, federalism and slavery.
“This momentous question,
like a fire bell in the night,
awakened and filled one with terror,
I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.
It is hushed indeed for the moment.
but this is a reprieve only,
not a final sentence . . .
we have the wolf by the ears
and we can neither hold him
nor safely let him go.”
When the nation was founded, ALL of the states were slave-owning states. Laws were passed in 1804-1805 calling for a gradual end to slavery, but they didn't result in a wholesale end to bondage above the Mason-Dixon line; in many northern states, there were still slaves to be found on the census records nearly up until the Civil War.
New York abolished the practice in 1827; Rhode Island in 1840; Pennsylvania in 1847; Connecticut in 1848; New Hampshire in 1857; and New Jersey didn't make it official until the state ratified the 13th amendment in 1866, having rejected it in 1865.