[jeffersondem]

“Thus, in truth, states’ rights were the protection of the free states, and as a matter of fact, during the domination of the slave power, Massachusetts appealed to this protecting principle as often and almost as loudly as South Carolina.”

That is an interesting comment.

However, Massachusetts was a slave state. In fact, of the 13 original states, 13 of them were slave states.

Does Mr. Adams explain why slave owners in Massachusetts bought, traded, sold, transported, insured, and worked slaves?

And why did Massachusetts representatives vote to enshrine slavery into the United States constitution?

Does Mr. Adams say?

[HandyDandy]

You are another one who is as thick as a brick. What part of “during the domination of Slave Power” are you pretending to not understand? Mr. Adams is very clear about what that time frame was (for those with reading comprehension skills). And yet you must start in again with your pathetic tripe about “Northern Slave States”. This time you are singling out Massachusetts. Are you perhaps confusing the Massachusetts Bay Colony with the State (Commonwealth) of Massachusetts? Massachusetts as a subject of the British Crown? Or, Massachusetts standing on its own two feet as a free and independent State? Massachusetts was, for the most part, done with Slavery by the end of the 1700’s. Slavery ran counter to its State Constitution. Mr. Adams time period of Slave Power began, as he plainly states, with the Louisiana Purchase. Here, this is for those with reading comprehension issues:

“Massachusetts was the first colony in New England with slave ownership and was a center for the slave trade throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. No legislation was passed that abolished slavery until the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 was ratified by the state. Instead, the practice of slavery was ended through case law; and as an institution it died out in the late 18th century through judicial actions litigated on behalf of slaves seeking manumission. These court cases, starting in 1781, heard arguments contending that slavery was a violation of Christian principles and also a violation of the constitution of the commonwealth. 1783 saw additional high-profile court cases that began a general trend of slaves winning their emancipation on a case-by-case basis through lawsuit. As slavery dwindled in the last decade of the 18th century in Massachusetts, many of the instances where it remained, the slaveholders sometimes applied semantics of a name change to indentured servitude to maintain their property. The 1790 federal census, however, listed no slaves. Massachusetts was a center for the abolition movement in the 19th century.” Wikipedia

Are you perhaps on the prod with your “13 Original Slave States” b*llsh*t? You have become lame, tedious and predictable. And another thing; with your George Washington and Abraham Lincoln trashing and bashing, I think you are on the wrong website. Sod off, mate. Go polish your bollix and stop playing the fool here. You are an embarrassment.