September 17, 1787 was when the Constitution was passed and the United States established. This was ten years after the Articles of Confederation was signed in 1777.
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International Slave Trading was outlawed in 1807, and signed into law by Thomas Jefferson.
January 31,1865 slavery within the US was outlawed. This was after a massive conflict costing the lives of 618,000-750,000 men (New Estimate Raises Civil War Death Toll..Guy Gugliotta NYT April 2, 2012).
So slavery was controlled by foreign powers in North America from 1619 to 1777, when the Articles of Confederation was passed.
Slavery existed inside the US for a grand total of for 88 years.
So the Declaration of Independence’s statement that all men are created equal (men being the collective pronoun for all men and women), took 88 years to become law.
The Left’s rant makes no sense, if one actually looks at history.
Reparations? I believe the lives of 618,000 to 750,000 human beings that ended slavery is enough reparations.
Of course the Left wants to rewrite history and emulate George Orwell’s famous quote:
“Who controls the past controls the future... ...who controls the present controls the past.” — George Orwell, from “1984”.
and:
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street building renamed, every date altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has been stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
— George Orwell, from “1984”.