A short and quick history lesson and basic math.
1781, September 28
Battle of Yorktown begins:
On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important and final big battle of the Revolutionary War
America was not an evil country in the 1600’s to the late 1700’s.
It didn’t exist in 1619 or most of the 1700’s.
Peace negotiations with England began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of war.
Basic math and history:
Jamestown, Va. 1619 “20 Negroes” arrive on Dutch ship
In September 3,1783
We won the war, 164 years later, with England.
We were not a nation in August 1619. Jamestown was not even officially a Brit colony in 1619. Any slavery before 1783 was on England’s record. Most if not all of those 1619 Africans were indentured servants not slaves. Many like my ancestors were listed as Free Slaves in the censuses from the 1700’s.
England did not even begin the process until 1807. One could argue that it was in part motivated by the trend in the US to diminish the institution of slavery as written into the Constitution, but, regardless, it was nations of the Anglosphere that led the way while others continued the practice, some into the 20th Century (and, some might claim, the 21st). The only thing that “ended” slavery in Africa and Asia was European colonization.
Thank you, we need to know this.