This man, Northam, is a total racist idiot and a disgrace to Virginia.
Not to interrupt a dog pile, but we did have indentured servants early in American history. They were not the same as slaves.
Initially, they were indentured servants, with a limited period of servitude. So were many Irish immigrants during the potato famine. But at some point between 1619 and the Revolution, that indentured servitude became lifetime enslavement, first as a criminal penalty, then, for blacks, ab initio, as the pretense of due process eroded, and racial bias insinuated itself.
Even then, compared to the Caribbean islands’ slavery practices, the 13 colonies were relatively humane. In Jamaica and other islands, the demand for freshly imported slaves was insatiable, because the slaves already there were routinely and quickly worked to death on short rations, thereby failing to breed a replacement population. In the 13 colonies, the work was not so rigorous, the rations more plentiful, and the colonists determined to breed their own slaves, so as to lose their dependency on the African slave trade.
This isn’t to say that the mainland institution of slavery was what we would nowadays deem humane, just that it was, despite its many faults, an improvement over the Caribbean practices, which were utterly indefensible.
Northam needs to resign.
Here are some more slaves - http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3726756/posts
lol...who is this guy???
I am posting this to keep this story alive.
I have noticed this disgusting trifecta of creepy clowns in VA is getting buried in other stuff.