Something I’ve been toying with for a few weeks while I awaited a university history professor friend to fact-check me. “A little short on detail, but the details are correct” he said.
I trained for a time as an intel analyst (98C) couldn’t get a clearance (long story), but some elements of data gathering and correlation align with my medical training so it wasn’t time wasted.
here goes:
Juneteenth
400 years of slavery.
We hear this lie often from the revisionist history groups like BLM, Black Panthers, 1619 project, and it’s never challenged. Neither are the facts of the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation or its application.
First, “America” was a British colony until 1783, a loose collection of “states” until the Constitution was ratified.
Controlled by King George, III England sent petty (and worse) criminals as slaves to the colonies by “Transport” (sold to ship’s captains, resold in slave markets in the Caribbean as “indentured servants” but sold, nonetheless), “impressed” colonial subjects into military service (said enslavement continued until the war of 1812 and was revived by President Lincoln), and bought slaves from African tribes and muslim slavers.
His Royalist troops surrendered to Geo. Washington’s forces in 1783, our Constitution signed 1788 (ratified in 1791), THEN we became The United States of America, with a President and everything.
As much as Thomas Jefferson and others wanted to include his majesty’s policies on slavery as one of the reasons for separation in our Declaration of Independence, the vetoes of Georgia and South Carolina against this statement forced it out (the Declaration had to be UNANIMOUS).
So true “American” enslavement of Africans ONLY lasted for 74 or 77 years. June 21, 1788 (or 1791) until Juneteenth 1865 (really December’65).
Lincoln’s prima facie unconstitutional Emancipation Proclamation Executive Order of 1863, only “freed” our enemies’ (the CSA’s) slaves while slaves in Missouri, Delaware, Maryland, Texas kept on totin’ barges and lifting bales and munitions for the Union Forces at train depots and shipping ports for several more years.
Lincoln freed no one with his unconstitutional taking (violating the 4th Amendment- SCOTUS had ruled slaves property in Dred Scott vs. Sandford in 1858 which was stare decisis until the 13th Amendment passed, DECEMBER 18, 1865 and proclaimed on Dec. 21.
Texans, Missourians, Delaware, Maryland STILL owned slaves, LEGALLY. From Juneteenth until that Amendment was passed and proclaimed.
Celebrating Juneteenth is rewriting history. And reparations for slavery? You have to start with the lineal descendants of the transportees and the United Kingdom first, Transport went on from Jamestown on to the shot heard ‘round the world.
"Four score and seven years." The nation was founded July 4, 1776. The Supreme court has always recognized July 4, 1776 as the day the US became an independent nation. You can see their discussion of the point in Inglis v. Trustees of Sailor's Snug Harbor, among other decisions.
The authority for the Emancipation Proclamation came from the several confiscation acts passed by Congress and allowing the seizure without compensation of private property being used to support the rebellion. The constitutionality of the confiscation acts was upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1862 decision known as the Prize Cases (67 US 635).