[pburgh01]

Slavery was a horrid institution in this country for its first 300 years, no doubt. To reduce human beings to chattle and then after freeing them treat them that way up till the 1960's. I think making comparisons to other countries is not very useful in this debate. Why unlike Uncle Levin I don't worship our Founding Fathers as practically saints. Most of them were in in one of two camps, acquiescing cowards or slaveholders when it came to this issue. They were so anxious to cement a wealthy white hegemony they allowed slavery to be settled later. Disgusting.

What I don't buy is people of slave ancestry being now 6 generations removed using that as an excuse to steal and grift my money through copious social programs and engage in murder, theft and rape. We now are at a point with Oblameo, where the great, great, great, great grandchildren of slaves now act the slave masters.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The minute the Constitution was ratified, slavery should have been abolished and all slaves should have been either returned to Africa or the slaves at the time given full U.S. citizenship and rights, and then paid a fair wage if they wanted to continue picking cotton. Would have saved the U.S. trillions of dollars and millions of lives.

[MrEdd]

Now there is an incoherent post.

How three hundred years of slavery in the United States is even a remote possibility.

Feel free to grasp as many straws as you want .

[Future Snake Eater]

Most of them were in in one of two camps, acquiescing cowards or slaveholders when it came to this issue.

They obviously saw it as pragmatism. There would have been no country had slavery been abolished at the outset. Look how horribly hypocritical the Southern states were regarding the census.

[kearnyirish2]

The US had legalized slavery for about 80 years (from independence until 1863); it ended 150 years ago. Using the terms 300 or 400 years (as blacktivists like Al Sharpton are prone to do) makes any further points meaningless; it exposes an agenda and willful ignorance.

[buffyt]

EXCELLENT COMMENT!

“What I don’t buy is people of slave ancestry being now 6 generations removed using that as an excuse to steal and grift my money through copious social programs and engage in murder, theft and rape. We now are at a point with Oblameo, where the great, great, great, great grandchildren of slaves now act the slave masters.”

[Pelham]

Britain issued two emancipation declarations during the Revolutionary War. Dunmore’s Proclamation and the Philipsburg Proclamation.

In light of the fact that slaves would have been freed had the war for independence failed, what’s your opinion on who should have prevailed? King George or slaveowner George Washington?

[cyborg]

Nice post.