As both the media and the public schools are wholly owned subsidiaries of Liberalism, Inc., the Left is able to portray their political enemies in the most fallacious and absurd manner....and get away with it.
Today, December 6th is a significant date in American history.....so let's review.
6. The Founders, and most of the earliest settlers were of English stock, and, in fact, demands that they be treated as such under English law was on of the irritants that led to the Revolution.
And the English had no love for slavery.
a. June 22, 1772 Slavery abolished in England: A British judge declared that slavery was “so odious” that it could not exist as common law, a decree, known as “the Somerset decision,” that led to the emancipation of 15,000 slaves living in England at the time. The fear that the crown would enact a similar ruling in the New World, led Southern colonists to join with their northern neighbors in a fight that led to the American Revolution. [ A young black man named Someset, kidnapped from a West African village at age 9, and purchased in 1749 by a merchant named Charles Stewart, escaped and was recaptured in October, 1771. His godparents petitioned the Court of King’s Bench for a writ of habeas corpus with affidavits that Somerset was being held against his will. The judge, Lord Mansfield, concurred.]
"...The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: it's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged." Somerset v Stewart - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
So....blacks were originally treated as indentured servants, just as whites were.
The English background of most colonials, was the reason that voices were raised against the institution from the very beginning of the nation.
Today, December 6th is a significant date in American history.....so let's review.
- The first Africans brought in captivity to colonial Virginia in 1619 became indentured servants, like the white indentured servants who were common at that time. Both were released as free people after a set number of years. Maldwyn Allen Jones, “American Immigration,” p. 13, 32
- 2. How and when this changed to perpetual slavery for blacks is unclear, but by the 1640’s, Africans brought to Virginia no longer had indenture contracts. Yet as late as 1651, some Negroes whose period of indenture expired were still being assigned land for themselves, as were the white indentured servants. Franklin, “From Slavery to Freedom,” p. 71-72.
- In 1647 Nathaniel Bacon was born. He led 'Bacon’s Rebellion,' which united poor blacks and poor whites in Virginia to kill all Indians. Ruling class feared that such union might threaten them; hastened transition to racial slavery. a. "It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part; a similar uprising in Maryland took place later that year. The alliance between former indentured servants and Africans against bond-servitude disturbed the ruling class, who responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery." Bacon s Rebellion - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 4. The first explicit law passed in America that recognized slavery as a perpetual condition, extending to future offspring, appeared in 1661 in Virginia. Franklin, Op. Ci
- 5. There is the fabrication that the Founders were all in favor of slavery. Not true. In Virginia, Washington, Jefferson, Patrick Henry and James Madison all publicly advocated the abolition of slavery. Phillips, “American Negro Slavery,” p. 122-124. It was the Founder's disgust with the institution of slavery that had them insert into the Constitution: "The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise reached between delegates from southern states and those from northern states during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention. The debate was over if, and if so, how, slaves would be counted when determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes. " Three-Fifths Compromise - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Had they not done so, the South's representation in Congress would have precluded ever getting rid of slavery.
6. The Founders, and most of the earliest settlers were of English stock, and, in fact, demands that they be treated as such under English law was on of the irritants that led to the Revolution.
And the English had no love for slavery.
a. June 22, 1772 Slavery abolished in England: A British judge declared that slavery was “so odious” that it could not exist as common law, a decree, known as “the Somerset decision,” that led to the emancipation of 15,000 slaves living in England at the time. The fear that the crown would enact a similar ruling in the New World, led Southern colonists to join with their northern neighbors in a fight that led to the American Revolution. [ A young black man named Someset, kidnapped from a West African village at age 9, and purchased in 1749 by a merchant named Charles Stewart, escaped and was recaptured in October, 1771. His godparents petitioned the Court of King’s Bench for a writ of habeas corpus with affidavits that Somerset was being held against his will. The judge, Lord Mansfield, concurred.]
"...The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political; but only positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory: it's so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law. Whatever inconveniences, therefore, may follow from a decision, I cannot say this case is allowed or approved by the law of England; and therefore the black must be discharged." Somerset v Stewart - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
So....blacks were originally treated as indentured servants, just as whites were.
The English background of most colonials, was the reason that voices were raised against the institution from the very beginning of the nation.
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