Thank you for the clarification. It remains that the slaves could have returned but chose not to. Ancestors of so-called African Americans were here of their free will. I guess they should take it up with them.
Ancestors of so-called African Americans were here of their free will.
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Think the idea for Monroe was to offer ONE WAY passage to Liberia for all who wanted to go.
Of course ‘we’ have no way of knowing how wide and far the word was put out......After all, they were enslaved and am sure the owners weren’t going to clue them in.
Of course the biggest fallacy of slavery was the treatment.
Admittedly you can figure some may have been hobbled to keep them from running off, but it was a ‘cash crop’ and only a stupid person would pay good money for labor then starve or abuse them to the point they were of no value.
Am sure there were some dissidents but can’t really see the way they try to tell us there was nothing but whippings and hangings and throwing people over board on a grand scale.
The original draft of Irish didn’t exactly have 1st Class accommodations for passage and weren’t treated like royalty either.
I guess we will be getting ‘our’ reparations next...s/