Posted on 02/07/2020 6:12:19 AM PST by Enlightened1
The New York Times’ 1619 Project — a curriculum that makes the fantastical claim that a primary cause of the Revolutionary War was the colonists’ desire to protect slavery — has been adopted in 3,500 classrooms across all 50 states.
For this reason, some of the nation’s most renowned historians have called for The Times to correct this and other factual errors.
The Pulitzer Center, which is partnering with The Times to promote The 1619 Project, recounted in its 2019 annual report, “Good journalism, innovative educational resources, and deep community engagement are absolutely essential to bridging the divisions that threaten to rip our democracy apart. It is this belief that has driven the Pulitzer Center for the last 14 years.”
Nikole Hannah-Jones, The Times’ lead writer on the project, argued in her introductory essay to it, “The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie. Our Declaration of Independence, approved on July 4, 1776, proclaims that ‘all men are created equal’ and ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.’
“But the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for the hundreds of thousands of black people in their midst.”
Hannah-Jones went on to contend “that the year 1619 is as important to the American story as 1776.”
That was the year, she explained, that British colonists in Jamestown purchased 20 to 30 enslaved Africans.
“Conveniently left out of our founding mythology is the fact that one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery,” Hannah-Jones wrote.
The reporter is honest enough to admit that slavery in America predated the nation’s founding by over 150 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
While keeping over 200 slaves and not freeing them.
Actions speak louder than words.
That’s not what the southern leaders said;
Isham Harris, Governor of Tennessee, January 7, 1861, (Messages of the Governors of Tennessee, p. 255); “The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizens; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party,...”
Henry M. Rector, Governor of Arkansas, March 2, 1861, Arkansas Secession Convention, p. 44 “The area of slavery must be extended correlative with its antagonism, or it will be put speedily in the ‘course of ultimate extinction.’....The extension of slavery is the vital point of the whole controversy between the North and the South...Amendments to the federal constitution are urged by some as a panacea for all the ills that beset us. That instrument is amply sufficient as it now stands, for the protection of Southern rights, if it was only enforced. The South wants practical evidence of good faith from the North, not mere paper agreements and compromises. They believe slavery a sin, we do not, and there lies the trouble.”
S. C. Posey, Lauderdale County, Alabama, speaking to the Alabama Secession Convention on Jan. 25, 1861: “Mr. President, the fierce strife we have had with the Northern States, which has led to the disruption of the Government, is a trumpet-tongued answer to this question. They have declared, by the election of Lincoln, “There shall be no more slave territory–no more slave States.” To this the Cotton States have responded by acts of secession and a Southern Confederacy; which is but a solemn declaration of these States, that they will not submit to the Northern idea of restricting slavery to its present limits, and confining it to the slave States.”
John Tyler Morgan, Dallas County, Alabama; also speaking to the Alabama Secession Convention on January 25, 1861: “The Ordinance of Secession rests, in a great measure, upon our assertion of a right to enslave the African race, or, what amounts to the same thing, to hold them in slavery.”
“To remain in this Black Republican Union. . . (North Carolina’s) position must be one of degradation and bankruptcy. . . .I have but a few years left to me, but so help me God, they shall be spent in the cause of the rights of the whole South.”
Weldon Edwards North Carolina secession convention
You realize you sound just like the liberals who produced this 1619 project, right?
But you are right, actions speak louder than words. And Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay all joined the Pennsylvania Society for
Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Ben Franklin even served as President.
But you go ahead and keep siding with these liberals who claim that the founding fathers were just a bunch of racist lying slave owners who really didn’t believe the immortal words they wrote”all men are created equal”.
No, it is not “taught” as one.
The Left lies about what capitalism is and hence what the public schools teach.
Capitalism is not Globalist Fascism. That is what world government is.
Capitalism is about independent decisions, and top down command type of government.
As do people who continuously insist the sole motivation for Southern states to leave the Union is "protecting slavery."
I am borrowing a page from Rush Limbaugh. I am illustrating absurdity by being absurd.
Of course I don't believe the Founders were motivated by a desire to protect slavery. Neither do I believe the vast majority of Confederates were motivated by a desire to expand slavery.
In both cases, the breaking away states were aggrieved, and wanted out of a government they no longer saw as serving their interests.
Biggest mistake Trump has made. She desperately needs to be replaced with someone who with extricate our schools from the clutches of the Marxists.
Your right that the founder weren’t motivated to rebel to protect slavery. There is absolutely zero evidence of such a claim in their writings or speech’s.
You are absolutely wrong that the southern rebels didn’t rebel to protect slavery. There is overwhelming evidence in their writings and speeches that protecting slavery was the primary reason they rebelled with all other considerations being a distant second.
Who was threatening slavery?
A year or two after the war ended, all the New England states had abolished slavery. Unfortunately in some states emancipation was gradual, so the law would only free the younger slaves as they came of age, leaving older slaves still in bondage, but New Englanders weren't fighting to preserve slavery.
You’re right about the communists taking over the education system. Look at the common core plan. We’d have never gotten to the moon if the engineers of the 50’s and 60’s had been taught common core math. Khrushchev was right about the communists taking over America without firing a shot.
That was not at all how things were perceived in the Deep South. The expectation there was that Republican appointments and policies would weaken slavery and contract the area where slavery was legal. Slavery would be locked out of the territories. This would be a blow to Southern honor or pride or self-respect or ego. Slaveowners believed that freedom included the freedom to own slaves and that equality included the equal treatment of slave property and other property. A government that declared that slavery was morally wrong was not a government that they wanted over them, even if it promised not to abolish slavery in areas where it was already established.
But keeping slavery out of the territories would have more practical and material consequences. It would drive down the demand for slaves, the price of slaves, their resale value and the wealth of slaveowners. It would be a blow to Southern wealth and credit. There was also the fear (based on what had happened in Virginia) that plantation agriculture would exhaust the soil - another blow to the Southern economy. And with no outlet for the growing slave population, slaveowners in majority slave areas would come to feel ever more insecure, as the proportion of the population that was enslaved grew - all the more so as Southern Whites moved west to free territories and were lost to the pro-slavery cause. The idea that many in the North and in the South - in the anti-slavery and in the pro-slavery camp - had was that "locking" up or "imprisioning" slavery in the South would put it on the road to extinction. Southerners saw their region losing wealth and power if they stayed in the union. Outside the union, expansion westward and southward was still possible through war or purchase.
There were other things that Lincoln and the Republicans could do. They could allow abolitionist materials to circulate through the mails, something that had been restricted since 1836. Slavery could be abolished in the District of Columbia. A plan of voluntary compensated emancipation could be adopted which would induce some slaveowners to get rid of their slaves, further weakening the institution. In the eyes of secessionist leaders, slaveowners in the Border States and the Upper South would be tempted to sell their slaves to federal resettlement programs, and thus slavery would eventually contract and be confined to the Deep South states, on the way to extinction.
Lincoln could also appoint judges, prosecutors and federal marshals, who it was feared would not enforce the fugitive slave laws. Even if Lincoln and his appointees had wanted to enforce those laws, they would be up against a large part of Northern opinion, and they would either have to comply with it or lose support at the polls. Southerners already regarded the Northern states' Personal Liberty Laws as a violation of the Constitutional compact: and things could only get worse for them if Republicans controlled the federal government.
Lincoln not only appointed court and law enforcement personnel. He also appointed postmasters, customs officials and other government employees. Secessionists feared that Lincoln appointees would form the core of an anti-slavery Republican Party in the slave states that would challenge the rule of the slaveowners. Buchanan had used his appointment power to promote the Democratic Party and his own faction on the West Coast. The secessionists' perception was that Lincoln could do the same in the South. There were already Republicans and anti-slavery activists in Missouri and Kentucky, and it was feared that Delaware would soon enough abolish slavery. Northern Maryland and Northwestern Virginia were already evolving away from plantation slavery. Once again, the larger fear was that slavery would be abolished in the Border States and then in the Upper South, until it was restricted to the Deep South, where it would wither and die.
Was this a realistic fear? I don't know. But the fear was real. You can read more about it on my personal page. Nobody familiar with the bitter, envenomed politics of the 1850s would conclude that an offer of a constitutional amendment would quell Southern fears and reconcile slaveowners to a Republican president.
There was no guarantee that such an amendment would be ratified either. In the North, the amendment would have caused great controversy and a split in the Republican Party. In the Deep South, slaveowners had made it clear that they didn't trust the Republicans and didn't want any compromise that was acceptable to Republicans. The possibility of an "unamendable amendment" was also questionable.
The Corwin compromise left open the possibility that states could abolish slavery - and the possibility that a growing Republican Party south of the Mason-Dixon line would support such a policy. The Confederate Constitution forbade any state from abolishing slavery. If you were a slave owner, which approach would be more likely to make you feel that your claim to your human property was unassailable?
The amendment was a last wild attempt at breaking the momentum of secession and was directed at the more moderate Border and Upper South states, rather than those states where the decision to secede had already been made. Those seven states were already out the door. No offer Lincoln made was going to win them back. Therefore, rejection of the offer can't be turned into an argument that secession wasn't primarily about slavery.
Southern Democrats convinced themselves that a "Black Republican" victory would be disastrous and would be just cause for secession. Slavery was the reason for this, but the association between a Republican win and secession had been so well established that secession was going to happen, at least in the Deep South. There was much passion and unrealistic fear involved, but the idea that a Republican victory would have dangers for the proslavery cause - whatever Lincoln said or promised - wasn't wholly wrong. Republican and secessionist views about slavery were so much in conflict that the half-hearted compromise offered by Lincoln wasn't going to be enough to satisfy Southerners.
I’ll let Robert Toombs answer that question. He was a senator from Georgia, a leading spokesman for secession, later Secretary of State for the rebel government, and a general in the rebel army. You’ll notice this letter was written nine months before the 1860 election.
“In view of such effects and consequences here from the mere possession of one branch of Congress we ought not to shut our eyes to the effects of the possession of the government in all of its departments by any Black Republican. It would abolitionize Maryland in a year, raise a powerful abolition party in Va., Kentucky, and Missouri in two years, and foster and rear up a free labour party in [the] whole South in four years. Thus the strife will be transferred from the North to our own friends. Then security and peace in our borders is gone forever. Therefore I deeply lament that any portion of our people shall hug to their bosoms the delusive idea that we should wait for some “overt act.” I shall consider our ruin already accomplished when we submit to a party whose every principle, whose daily declarations and acts are an open proclamation of war against us, and the insidious effects of whose policy I see around me every day. For one I would raise an insurrection, if I could not carry a revolution, to save my countrymen, and endeavor to save them in spite of themselves.”
Letter from Senator Robert Toombs to Alexander Stephens-February 10,1860
Off your meds, huh dude? Slavery was abolished in the North in 1804. You Rebs went to war to preserve it.
Second of all, the Union was preserving it, so nobody had to fight for that. See Lincoln and "Corwin Amendment."
My family came here from Ireland in 1850. My gg grandfather served in the US Army. First in ‘’The Indian Territory of Oklahoma’’ according to family history. He was a medical orderly at Fort Sill. He later went on to prominence as a medical steward in The Surgeon Generals Office in Washington, DC During The Civil War. He wrote “The US Army Surgeons Manual’’. His name was William C. Grace. Here’s something for you to do Lampster. Google “Us Army Surgeons Manual’’/William C. Grace’’. That’s my ancestor. Do it. And as far as I’m concerned you’re a Reb. And I was born in the northeastern NJ town of Kearny. Named for it’s most famous local son Union General Phil Kearny.
Further...
A nation (England) that had slaves themselves at that time, were not here to end slavery.
We were not fighting to continue slavery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
This is mass systemic system-wide institutional insurrection.
These people are trying to characterize the United States as a nation that was all about slavery in order to weaken it and then destroy it.
These are enemies of the state, and in this instance, the state and every loyal nationalist has every reason to object, because it’s all lies.
The unmitigated ignorance and evil involved here...
Further libtard progressive historical revisionism idiocy......
The Royal government issued two proclamations which emancipated slaves during the Revolutionary War.
Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation in November 1775.
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lord_Dunmore_s_Proclamation_1775
And the Philipsburg Proclamation in June 1779.
http://blackloyalist.com/cdc/story/revolution/philipsburg.htm
http://www.ouramericanrevolution.org/index.cfm/page/view/p0422
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