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To: lastchance

The mistake you made was about The Selling of Joseph.

It is the first abolitionist tract of the transatlantic era. It came from America. Not from Europe.


77 posted on 05/07/2026 1:59:34 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (The U.S. Constitution is not a suicide pact. Progressivism is a suicide pact.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I did not make any mistake. You wrote,

“America invented abolitionism. We were first. We own it, in origination abolitionism is our property. And yes, too, many of the Founding Fathers were abolitionists.”

” The very first transatlantic abolitionist tract written anywhere, ever, was by an American. Ever. Period. The very first. The “oldest” in that sense. It was in 1700, “The Selling of Joseph”

If you are using “transatlantic” to mean the European to the Americas slave trade you are also wrong in claiming no other abolitionist writings came before it. I am defining abolitionist writings as those writings which objected to the practice of slavery and advocated that all slaves should be free.

America did not invent abolition,just as we did not invent the slave trade and slavery.


80 posted on 05/07/2026 4:15:57 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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