Posted on 02/17/2009 6:40:55 PM PST by DBCJR
Edited on 02/18/2009 3:54:17 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Obama Jr's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But, (quoting a Mar.2, 2007 report in the Baltimore Sun), "an intriguing sliver of his [Obama Jr.] family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records.
" . . . The records could add a new dimension to questions by some who have asked whether Obama - who was raised in East Asia and Hawaii and educated at Columbia and Harvard - is attuned to the struggles of American blacks descended from West African slaves." Obama Jr's African forebears were slave traders
In the 18th century, Muslim slavers moved into the interior of Kenya for the purpose of exploiting blood rivalries between local tribes. Muslims encouraged warring tribes, Obama Jr's Luo ancestors included, to capture "prisoners of war" and sell them into slavery.
Kenya tribe leaders, also exported slaves and ivory that had been exchanged by Africans from the interior for salt, cloth, beads, and metal goods. The slaves were then marched to the coast and shipped to Muslim Zanzibar (an island South of Kenya), to be traded again.
African slaves and ivory became hugely profitable and Zanzibar Muslims grew rich on the trade. Slave trading continued despite the public outrage in Europe demanding an end to all slave trade.
The British, eventually brought their forceful anti-slavery message directly to the Muslim Sultan.
After years of pressure, the Sultan finally relented and agreed to ban slavery in 1847. It was not until 1876, 11 years after the American Civil War had ended, that the sale of slaves was finally prohibited in Zanzibar.
Lovely pdf. Please point out the section where it references taxes on exports rather than imports.
Read it yourself. Also, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2134454/posts
Can you please send me the pdf from the 1862 NYT about taxes on cotton starting the civil war?
I posted the link. Could you not read it from there? I can see about saving it to my hard drive and emailing it, if I have your email, but you can read it online.
There was also a Natl Park Services archived file that has been purged recently. It was at
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/cause.htm
You might also want to read the thread at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2134454/posts
It's an interesting document, but it's all about the effects of tariffs on imports not tariffs on exports.
My original response to you was to ask you to point out somewhere it is stated that the US government leveled taxes on exports, specifically cotton, which was what you had claimed.
To date you have chosen not to post any such evidence.
To put it in today's terms, import tariffs might be placed on imported oil or children's toys coming INTO the country.
An export tariff, something I believe is unconstitutional, would be placed on products made here and sold to someone OUTSIDE the USA, such as a Boeing 757 or an M1 Abrams.
Please show me where and when taxes have ever been levied on EXPORTS in this country.
One of my primary sources of information was the National Park Services Archive articles. Interestingly enough, one such article has been removed.
http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/gettkidz/cause.htm
I think I posted its content on FR a year or two ago.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2134454/posts
Here are some other sources:
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dirwin/exporttax.pdf
http://ngeorgia.com/history/why.html
Dartmount article: "Although the optimal export tax may seem moot in view of the constitutional prohibition of export taxes, such taxes were actually a live political issue around this time: the Confederacy imposed an export tax on cotton to raise revenue, and Northern members of Congress led an effort to repeal the constitutional provision immediately following the Civil War.
IOW, there was no export tax at the time, or since, for that matter. The article is theoretical only.
Ngeorgia article: "In order to "protect" the northern industries Jackson slapped a tariff on many of the imported goods that could be manufactured in the North.
None of these article mention taxes on exports such as cotton, other than in a hypothetical way in the Dartmouth article. In fact, the only export tax on cotton ever imposed in America was by the CSA.
You appear to be unable to see there is a difference between taxing exports and taxing imports, so I guess I'll just let it slide. Have a great day.
The white half of Obama will pay reparations to the other half
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