“????? were held against their will here at Berkeley and other plantations — and their bondage is a shameful chapter in our nation’s history.”
Everything proceeds by degrees. When the U.S. was the only nation on earth that recognized human rights come frmo God and not from the Monarch, it was a new thing.
seems to me that was something else that we brought over from england...and everyone forgets there were plenty of white slaves, but they were called indentured servants, how special.
Whoops I left the beginning of the sentance out. It should have read
“At times, America has fallen short of these ideals. We remember that the expansion of our country came at a terrible cost to Native American tribes. We remember that many people came to the New World in chains rather than by choice. For many years, slaves were held against their will here at Berkeley and other plantations — and their bondage is a shameful chapter in our nation’s history. “