[ProgressingAmerica]

In 1775, abolitionist Richard Price noted:

It is not the fault of the Colonies that they have among them so many of these unhappy people. They have made laws to prohibit the importation of them; but these laws have always had a negative put upon them here, because of their tendency to hurt our Negro trade. - Richard Price, "Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America" page 42

To those of you willing to listen, this is actionable history.

True it's written from the British and not French perspective but the end result really is not all that different.

The colony is the parent country's responsibility and the parent country's guilt and in this instance, Louisiana was of France. That is where the pre-purchase guilt resides.

[9YearLurker]

If you keep people enslaved, you are guilty of that.

And again, there was slavery here before and beyond the LP.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I don't think anybody blames the colonies for having slaves when they were still ruled by Great Britain. Nor did the U.S. bear any responsibility for slavery in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase prior to its acquisition. That would be silly.

You can fairly blame the U.S. for choosing to keep slavery after independence, and for maintaining it in the Purchase territories after acquisition.

But the people who made all those decisions are long dead anyway, so I don't understand the relevance to today.

[discostu]

That’s 1775 when they were colonies. Then comes 1776. They shook the etch-a-sketch and could make their new country however they wanted. They chose to get rid of royalty. They chose to get rid of state religion. They chose to keep slavery. It might not have been the colonies’ fault. But it was DEFINITELY the COUNTRY’S fault.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "The colony is the parent country's responsibility and the parent country's guilt and in this instance, Louisiana was of France. That is where the pre-purchase guilt resides."

You're barking up a wrongly-Grok'd tree.

You do know that France of the Bourbon monarchy is not the same country as the current and FIFTH republic which began in the 1950s..... Or you don't. And that House of Bourbon currently is represented by Madrid-born Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, who would -- but just plain won't -- be Louis XX if they ever regained the monarchy of France as under the earlier and very long-dead Bourbons.

"Pre-purchase guilt?" Wow. Like "actionable history?" Who you gonna sue?

Here's a thought: use your favorite search engine to find uses of your phrase, "actionable history." It would be interesting. Maybe ask Grok.