[ProgressingAmerica]

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.

[ProgressingAmerica]

Here are some book recommendations from another FReeper for any interested:

Thomas Fleming’s “A Disease in the Public Mind”
Eugene Genovese’s “Roll Jordan Roll”
Robert Fogel’s “Time on the Cross”