Americans Are in Desperate Need of a Lesson on the History of Slavery

American Thinker ^ | 05/24/2019 | William Sullivan

[tbw2]

I can’t even get feminists to honestly discuss ISIS sex slaves and Muslim theocracies aping fictional Gilead in a book group discussion of “The Handmaid’s Tale”.
That’s despite Atwood admitting she was equally inspired by Iran’s theocratic revolution with the Shah as she was by Jerry Falwell, per vicious liberal stereotyping of conservative Christians as wannabee Taliban.

[Jamestown1630]

I read it in a very old book, in which remembrances of people from the household, including former slaves, were documented. It was an open secret ‘in the neighborhood’.

If you can find a good University library - one which still has actual *books* - you can read things that were written back when biographers and historians still cared about Truth, instead of ‘political correctness’.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Is this the draft transcript you are looking for?

https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/american_originals_iv/sections/transcript_preliminary_emancipation.html

That it is my purpose, upon the next meeting of Congress to again recommend the adoption of a practical measure tendering pecuniary aid to the free acceptance or rejection of all slave States, so called, the people whereof may not then be in rebellion against the United States and which States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent, with their consent, upon this continent, or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the Governments existing there, will be continued.

https://www.essentialcivilwarcurriculum.com/lincoln-and-colonization.html

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jala/2629860.0014.204/--abraham-lincoln-and-the-politics-of-black-colonization?rgn=main;view=fulltext