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To: ProgressingAmerica

” The point is what do the facts say. The facts say that early colonial and yes some founders were fighting against the British to prevent slavery from coming to these shores meanwhile his highness fought against this abolitionist wave and imposed slavery on us anyways, against our will. “

Speaking of facts, how exactly could founders be “fighting to prevent slavery from coming to these shores” when it had arrived here some time in the 1600s?

And as for a founding era “abolitionist wave”, good luck with that. Abolitionism wasn’t even popular 90 years later when Lincoln was President.

Thomas Fleming’s “A Disease in the Public Mind” presents an excellent history of all this, in contrast to the a-historical nonsense cranked out by Dinesh and others who think that they can outdo the Left in playing the slavery/racism game.

Eugene Genovese’s “Roll Jordan Roll” is another good book. As well as Fogel’s “Time on the Cross”.


41 posted on 07/19/2019 10:28:17 AM PDT by Pelham (Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
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To: Pelham
Thank you for the book recommendations. However, I generally prefer works written prior to the birth of the rot of Progressivism in the 1900s. Especially if the works are original sources.

That's why I referenced Edmund Burke's speech without some history book filter. He spelled out exactly how the colonists were doing what they could to prevent a superpower from landing slave ships on these shores. Historian George Bancroft also wrote about some of the prevention efforts in his history books, particularly his best known 1854 work History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

Again a speech, but Abraham Lincoln also defended the Founders against charges made by the slave owners of the south (this argument really isn't all that new) and this false distortion of history. To keep this short, if you are curious what Lincoln said it is here: http://tinyurl.com/n3aazgz

I'll ping to your book recommendations in case others would like to read these.

42 posted on 07/19/2019 7:03:02 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot leave history to "the historians" anymore.)
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