How many of our presidents owned slaves?
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GEORGE WASHINGTON (between 250-350 slaves)
- THOMAS JEFFERSON (about 200)
- JAMES MADISON (more than 100)
- JAMES MONROE (about 75)
- ANDREW JACKSON (fewer than 200)
- Martin Van Buren (one)
- William Henry Harrison (eleven)
- JOHN TYLER (about 70)
- JAMES POLK (about 25)
- ZACHARY TAYLOR (fewer than 150)
- Andrew Johnson (probably eight)
- Ulysses S. Grant (probably five)
It’s a commonplace that Abraham Lincoln never trafficked in slaves, much less owned them – indeed, he “freed the slaves.” But here’s the shocker: Although the slave trade had been abolished in the District of Columbia in 1850, slaves inhabited the capital for another 15 years – till the end of the Civil War. Dwell on that thought: Lincoln fought the Civil War in a slave city – the Great Emancipator inhabited a White House staffed by slaves.
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One final point. Most historians argue that the biggest challenge the founders failed to confront was the existence of slavery on American soil. Our earliest presidents struggled to find solutions. The most radical proposal in the early days of the republic was to ship slaves and other blacks back to Africa. Jefferson was keen on the idea, believing that blacks would eventually have to be removed from the U.S. or else whites would live in perpetual dread that the slaves would rise up in rebellion. Such fears prompted a later president, James Monroe, to support the creation of the American Colonization Society (founded 1816-1817).
The Society was not just well-intentioned. It raised money, acquired lands in what is present-day Liberia, and supported passage of emancipated slaves, former indentured servants, and free blacks across the Atlantic to the west coast of Africa. The Society named the major settlement in the colony Monrovia in honor of our nation’s fifth president.
http://hauensteincenter.org/slaveholding/
It’s really just not fun to live in this country anymore. Everyday it’s some new form of idiocy.
Life used to be so joyful, so carefree. You knew you lived in the greatest country in the world and it was an incredible time. Glad I am old enough to have at least experienced that America while it existed.
You left off Barry Soetoro he has over 300 million.
Actually, US Grant never personally owned any slaves.
I think I would have agreed with Jefferson back then.
List of words that we are still allowed to use:
BB: Big Brother.Crimestop: To rid oneself of unwanted thoughts—i.e., thoughts that interfere with Party ideology—in order to avoid committing thoughtcrime.
Ex:Knowledge that Science is at odds with the global warming scam
Dayorder: Order of the day.
Equal: Only used to describe physical equality such as height and weight. It does not refer to social, political or economical equality because there is no such concept as social inequality in purportedly egalitarian Ingsoc
Facecrime: An indication that a person is guilty of thoughtcrime based on facial expression.
Free: Meaning negative freedom (without), in a physical sense. Only used in statements such as “This dog is free from lice”, as the concepts of “political freedom” and “intellectual freedom” do not exist in Newspeak.
Goodthink: Orthodox thought.
Joycamp: Forced labor camp.(Not built yet)
Minitrue: “Ministry of Truth” (propaganda and alteration of history, culture, and entertainment).
EX: msnbc, cnn, abc, nbc and SeeBS
Miniplenty: “Ministry of Plenty” (keeping the population in a state of constant economic hardship). Ex. Plans to let more illegals in
Oldspeak: English; any language that is not Newspeak. Anything that is true and against the Democrt’s agenda
Rectify: Ministry of Truth euphemism for deliberately altering the past.
BINGO! Seems like the Leftists want to alter aour history even beyond the classrooms
Thinkpol: Thought Police.
Upsub: Submit to higher authority. In one scene, Winston Smith is instructed to alter a document to conform with the Party line and submit it to his superiors before filing it: (“rewrite fullwise upsub antefiling”; note that this sentence is an example of the Newspeak-influenced bureaucratic jargon rather than official Newspeak).
(Most of this information is from Wikipedia)
When will some media type...point out that Odumbo’s family probably helped send slaves to America?