Posted on 08/31/2020 6:33:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Quick search of old articles comes up with: John Kerry. hmmmmmm.
I have copies of letters written by my family in 1783 to their relatives in Ireland (Ulster). The war had cut off their communications and with the end of the Revolution, they were filling them in on how they had fared during the war. These family members lived in North Carolina, in the region of the State where a slave based plantation economy existed. They were part of that economy.
They told their Irish (Scots Irish) relations that they believed that slavery was wrong and would, in time, come to an end. The dilemma, they believed, was that no one could imagine a way to do it. All of the wealth in the coastal regions of the South was tied up in the slave economy. Tobacco, rice, indigo, and sugar (cotton only became important after the invention of the cotton gin) were labor intensive crops and they were cash crops, in great demand in Europe. Freeing their slaves was viewed as impossible without some mechanism to compensate slave holders who had invested everything they owned into that economy. The rest of the population were also dependent on the slave economy, so this social disease had no known cure.
My view is that excepting the invention of the cotton gin, the whole thing would have collapsed of its own weight after the British banned the slave trade. But, cotton kept it alive and expanded the system from the coastal plains into the uplands of the South where slavery had never taken hold. When that happened, a civil war was inevitible. A national tragedy came to pass.
The 1619 Project is fiction, but an entire generation will come to believe it as truth.
One of the most zealous advocates of independence, long before almost anyone else, was Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, a non-slaveowner.
Soros and Obama. Obama founded an organization called, “OFA,” Organizing for Action.
The despicable former p_resident should be hanged for treason!
The father of lies is busy churning up his minions for the last days defiance of truth.
His treachery is legion
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