What the 1619 Project overlooks about slavery and the Constitution: There is an important oversight in the so-called scholarship

American Thinker ^ | 02/15/2023 | Stephen B. Young

[Vision]

The 1619 Project is hate.

[SauronOfMordor]

During the Middle Ages, serfs were effectively slaves to a degree.

In Europe, the defining characteristics of the nobility were the right to be armed, the right to own property, and the right to defend yourself and what was yours with your own arms.

The Constitution made every citizen a nobleman.

[GingisK]

Slavery is as old as human history. While certainly not a justification, one can’t really look unkindly upon those slave holders that were doing something that was in common practice around the world at the time.

[jamaksin]

Down by the Riverside
(A South Carolina Slave Community)
Charles W. Joyner
University of Illinois Press
ISBN 0-252-01058-2
1984

From page 4:

” ... I am acutely conscious, here on the Waccamaw, that
the river and the forest are the same river and forest
that silently witnessed events that took place long ago.
It was here, on the Waccamaw, in the shade of some of these
very same trees, that Spaniards and Africans are said to have planted in 1526 the first Old World settlement in what is now the United States - Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon’s ill-fated San Miguel de Gualdape. It was here on the Gualdape, as the Spanish named the river, that Africans were first brought to this country as slaves, and it was here that first slave revolt in what is now the United States took place. ...”

And, so it goes ...

[AndyTheBear]

Yes, Western Culture and Christianity were the engines that doomed slavery. All the more reason to not let Progressives trick us into defending any part of slavery.