That was being said in 1888 too.
Posted on 07/04/2020 6:35:24 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
...But let the Revolutionaries speak for themselves. Before the Revolution, Virginia tried to tax the slave trade out of existence, only to have those enactments vetoed by the Privy Council in London. And it was during the Revolution that the rebel colonies began enacting the first emancipation plans, beginning with Pennsylvania in 1780 and Massachusetts in 1783. If the protection of slavery was that central to the Revolution, why did 5,000 African Americans fight against the British? Why is there a monument to the black volunteers of the First Rhode Island — “The Patriots of African Descent” — who shivered through the deadly winter at Valley Forge? Why, for that matter, did Britain’s West Indian colonies, where slavery was far more vital to the sugar economy and far more brutal in its oppression, refuse to join the 13 North American colonies in revolt? Why, above all, if the Revolution was so pro-slavery, did Thomas Jefferson believe in 1785 that “emancipation is put into such a train that in a few years there will be no slaves Northward of Maryland”?
But Hannah-Jones flings her accusation further than just the Revolutionaries. She presents an image of Abraham Lincoln in 1862, informing a delegation of “five esteemed free black men” at the White House that black Americans were a “troublesome presence” and that his solution was colonization — “to ship black people, once freed, to another country.” There is no admission by Hannah-Jones that the “troublesome presence” phrase was not Lincoln’s, but Lincoln quoting Henry Clay. No admission that recognizes that colonization was actually a sugar-coating to ease the swallowing of emancipation by white Northerners, “adopted” (as Frederick Milnes Edge wrote in 1862) “to silence the weak-nerved, whose name is legion.”
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Some see the light. Some see the darkness; pity them.
Theirs isn’t a narrative of despair...it’s a narrative straight out of Rules For Radicals.Big,BIG difference.
Before the Communists can usher in their utopia they must obliterate our history and replace it with a fictional version that makes communism seem better. That is what the 1619 project is really about. For some reason the commies already believe the time is ripe NOW to launch their revolution. I, for one, will do what I can to disappoint them.
He’s a good Lincoln scholar.
I have introduced on my www.wildworldofhistory.com website on the VIP side a series called “The 1620 Default,” showing that Jamestown was NOT the origin of American exceptionalism, but Plymouth, and that the Pillars of American Exceptionalism, especially a Christian, mostly Protestant religious tradition and common law, were only introduced at Plymouth, while there was no slavery there.
I really don’t get it. There is all this effort put forth to rewrite American history. There is tremendous effort put forth everyday in the media. There are millions upon millions of dollars poured into community organizing. People spend huge amounts of time on protesting. I get the rioting and razing businesses - free stuff, and gee who doesn’t like a bonfire? However, all of this energy with entire lives of people striving for the mediocrity of socialism, where their lives will be miserable, where there is no hope for wealth, where there no greatness. There is all of this effort and money being thrown away for the lowest common denominator. Why don’t they get the idea that if they take their energy and money that they could build something great?
You are so right. The true foundation of the USA was done by people searching for religious freedom and escape from the religious wars in Europe. The folks who settled Jamestown were just more of the same that existed in Europe. It was something that would lead this country to a bloody civil war. Americans represent the emigrants who were searching for something better. Who wanted to build something better. It is never quick enough but it has been a steady progression.
This manufactured BS is like a venomous snake whose head needs cutting off asap. If this is what they believe and have been/are pouring into the vacuous brains of our young children, we better wake up and stop them immediately. This is major Fascist/Marxist propaganda. It says a lot that they are brazen and audacious enough to publicize this BS. Do they believe the country has sunk to such a deplorable level that they can now toss this swill right in our faces? No wonder we have riots and the desecration of statues taking place in our streets.
This is the Disney Generation that does whatever they want and expect to be granted anything they wish.
There is all of this effort and money being thrown away for the lowest common denominator. Why don’t they get the idea that if they take their energy and money that they could build something great?
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At the heart of it is an irrational rage by Leftists, who having failed to win “legally”, and I quote the word as we’ve since learned they weaponized the FBI to attempt to rig the election by framing Trump, have now lost any pretense at following rules or logic.
Hey ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?.....650,000 plus died during that little dust up...if anyone of any color doesn’t like the USA pack up and get your butt out of here to the utopia of your choice....since EP day many have wasted their opportunity to be free and great...and are perpetually aggrieved whiners...
That was being said in 1888 too.
CAPTION:
The two English colonies that first settled in America furnish a moral lesson that is full of interest and in some respects with a parallel in the history of the world.
this map represents those colonies by two trees whose striking contrast will be apparent to the most superficial observer, but not more so than the historical facts make them appear.
The student of history can here see at a glance what it would require him years of hard study to glean from text books, and many will see the moral of the subject here for the first time.
It is said that history repeats itself. We do not claim that it does; but there is a similarity between the first colony of the old world and the first colonies of the new world. The first colony of the old world was established in the Garden of Eden where good and evil existed and the evil caused the down-fall of man; so it was in the new world. Good and evil came here also, the good to Plymouth and the bad to Jamestown. As the tree which bore the forbidden fruit caused the curse to be brought upon man in Eden, so did the tree of slavery in Jamestown.
There was constant warfare in the old world between good and evil, so there has been in the new world. The evil of Jamestown hs always been and is to-day at war with the good of Plymouth.
Much of the trouble in the new world was caused in this way. In 1620, each colony planted a tree. The tree of Liberty, then quite small, was planted by the Pilgrims upon the Bible, at Plymouth, where it received God’s blessing, which accounts for its wonderful growth and the excellent quality of its fruit.
The tree of slavery was brought from the old world and the people of Jamestown planted it upon mammon.
In time a dispute arose between the two colonies as to whose tree should grow so large that it would occupy all the land.
Slavery with its attendant evils would over-shadow the land with darkness, while Liberty with its manifold blessings would send a flood of light over the whole country.
At one time it appeared that the tree of Slavery would gain the supremacy, but God cursed that tree and it soon began to lean southward. Its friends then tried to prop it up, but it still contined to lean and showed signs that it would fall. This made the southern man jealous and he decided to murder his Northern brother, as Cain of old had done his brother Abel.
For his sin God sent a black mark upon Cain and sent Father Abraham with his big emancipation axe to cut the tree of Slavery down.
It is a remarkable fact that so far as the influence of the two colonies has been felt in the affairs of our country, that of the Jamestown colony hs been bad, and that of the Plymouth colony good.
The grand and noble thoughts recorded, the wonderful inventions, our free schools, the many blessings we enjoy to-day and all that tends to elevate mankind are heirlooms handed down from the Puritans and their children. While nearly every evil which exists in the political economy of our beloved country can be traced back to the pernicious teachings of the Jamestown settlers and their children.
Jamestown is no more, but the colony still lives in the form of the Democratic party. Plymouth is a flourishing city and her children now form the Republican party of this great country.
For a verification of these facts study the history of the United States.
Historical Geography
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1888, by John F. Smith, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
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