Posted on 04/20/2005 2:29:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Also, as noted in my previous reply, Massachusetts started in 1638, followed by Rhode Island, where the chief slave port in the American colonies was located, rivaling Liverpool in England. Slave trading and the export of rum became the basis of New England's economy. The Southern colonies were not a part of the trade, having neither ships nor molasses. In 1774, the importation of slaves was forbidden by the people of North and South Carolina.
How's that for "who knew?" LOL.
Massachusetts was not part of a democracy in 1638. I don't know what a slave port is, BTW. iirc, my 5th grade history book attributed the first Negro slaves in the new world to a Dutch ship landing somewhere in the South. I certainly do not mean any of my previous posts to imply a moral superiority of the North or New England, merely more overt moralizing.
Slavery disappeared in New England about 1800 because there was virtually no public support for it as an institution. Period. (There were also not significant numbers of Black slaves and slave owners either.)
I am certain that slavery would have disappeared in the South the way it did in Brazil and Cuba without the Civil War. The Civil War was a catastrophe for this country, one from whose effects we have yet to recover. But slavery was our original sin, a sin common to most cultures over most of the World for most of time.
This ain't PC history. Everyone knows and reads that the South was the origin of slavery in the Americas!
"Everyone knows and reads that the South was the origin of slavery in the Americas!"
More like just caught "holding the bag" after the big money had already been made, importing other human beings to Rhode Island and Massachusetts and selling them for profit.
Good one!
I figure that Jessie had better get busy.
"I don't know what a slave port is, BTW"
A port used for the slave trade. Liverpool in England, Newport in Rhode Island, Boston in Massachusetts, and later, after the Revolution, Charleston in South Carolina and New Orleans in Louisiana, among others, not to mention the slave ports of West Africa, Barbados, and South America.
Here's a good link for you, and anyone else curious about the institution of slavery in the northeastern US:
http://www.slavenorth.com/massachusetts.htm
True.
But an infection on the leg could have been caused by the skin being broken from many different things...like an axe, for example.
When chopping wood, it's not uncommon to miss when you swing. I image they did a great deal of it back then.
Not like they had central heat during the brutally cold winters!
The population of New York City was about 20,000 at the time of the Revolutionary War.
The city was also 20 % Black, most of them slaves.
"The city was also 20 % Black, most of them slaves."
Have you ever seen the horrible lynching photos, from the draft riots in New York City during the Civil War? Heinous. Post after post after post, as far as the camera could pick up in the dingy air. These men were fighting to free blacks from slavery? I don't think so.
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