Slavery in the South, on the other hand, occurred in this country within it's own history and among our own people.
Actually Newport RI was one of the junctions of the slave triangle (Newport/Africa/Caribbean).
I think over the next 4 years, there will emerge a Democratic strategy to divide the Republicans based on the issue of slavery. The Democrats realize support from the disenfranchised minorities is slipping fast and its lack of message and definition is astounding. I think we will see more articles like this for a long time to come.
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One of my ancestors had 90 slaves when he died. I hope my cousins are living well!
I believe what this article is attempting to highlight is the fact that slavery was not strictly a southern idea. In most history classes throughout this country they teach that the civil war was fought by the north to free the slaves being held in the South. In reality, slavery wasn't an issue until the north, fearing they were losing the war and support for it, made it an issue. Most souhterners didn't own slaves, and were fighting to be free from federal government tyranny and oppression. The Emancipation Proclamation wasn't issued until 1863, almost halfway into the war and when prospects for victory were the bleakest for the North. The proclamation, contrary to popular belief, only freed slaves in states that were in opposition to the federal government and not controlled by union forces. All slaves in northern controlled areas were not freed by this, which included a large number of blacks in Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kentucky, and western Virginia.
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The United states had little actual involvement in the removing of peoples from Africa and their transportation to the New World. The actual Slave trading and transportation was at the hands of the French, English, Dutch, Portuguese, and other seafaring nations.
Five percent ( 5% )of the Slaves transported, actually landed in what is now the United States, a low number compared to the Slaves that landed in the Caribbean and So. America.
It never ceases to amaze me that the ones being the most vociferous about Slavery are the ones that adopt Muslim names, EL this and Al that, total lack of education. Slavery as taught in the United States public education system appears to insinuate that all slaves were transported by and landed in the US>
Blacks owned slaves, Jews owned slaves, and even American Indians owned slaves.
This is a dark chapter in American history, and one we can all be grateful to be past.
African slavery was ramant in Europe as well as America, and Europeans themselves were enslaved (in Europe and elsewhere).
At the beginning of the 20th century, one could buy a man, woman, or child, of European extraction, in parts of Europe.
In Britain, during the Industrial Revolution, some children were virtual slaves.
The most important thing about this is that slavery exists today in parts of the world, and it will exist again if people are not vigilant.
Western Civilization has abolished slavery. Many alternative cultures in the world today have not.
This is only one of many reasons why Western Civilization must be preserved, despite the attempts of many, notably Islamists, to destroy it and despite the unwillingness of many, notably decadent European and American Leftists, to defend and preserve it.
The United States was established July 4, 1776. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued by the president on January 1, 1863.
That's 87 years that slavery existed in the United States and not in all states, not 400 years and not 200 years.
Slavery was instituted on this continent by Europeans, Arabs and Africans.
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What is the evidence that Benjamin Franklin ever bought or owned a slave?
There was no question concerning slaves on the 1810 census like there was on the 1800 (at least not in NY where I have been researching,) but there were detailed categories for slaves and free on the 1820. It seems correct that there were very few slaves in the north by 1820. I thought that perhaps the popularity of anti-slavery societies in the north could account for that, but they were not established until the 1830's.