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Re: The situation here is still pretty psychotic. (none / 0)

American Slavery and 'the Relentless Unforeseen'
"The American movement in turn became the antislavery beacon to the rest of the Atlantic world and especially to beleaguered British abolitionists like Granville Sharp." LOL

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Chas. Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
1926 Slave Revolt in Sierra Leone

by Cat on Mon Dec 30th, 2019 at 05:17:08 AM EST
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Setting aside how many historians "curating" how many "founders" scribbling how many drafts (American Scripture LOL) ...

A candidate for Democratic nomination said slaveholders didn't know slaveholding was wrong. Absolutely incorrect. In original draft of Declaration of Independence, Jefferson condemned King George for the African slave trade in American colonies. They did it for the money.
— Keith Ellison (@keithellison) December 30, 2019

by Cat on Wed Jan 1st, 2020 at 08:30:37 AM EST
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1776, NOTES OF DEBATES ON THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION LOL

Chase. Moves that the Word, White, should be inserted in the 11. Article. The Negroes are wealth. Numbers are not a certain Rule of wealth. It is the best Rule We can lay down. Negroes a Species of Property -- personal Estate. If Negroes are taken into the Computation of Numbers, [illegible] to ascertain Wealth, they ought to be in settling the Representation. ...

1785, letter

It is clear to me, that the delay desired and proposed, will be at least as advantageous to the British Creditors as to the American Debtors and if government cannot be prevailed with to stipulate, I hope they may be convinced of the Necessity of the Measures taken by the States, and not treat them or consider them as Breakers of the Treaty, and that if the Creditors may be quieted, in the Case of the Negroes it is clear, that they ought to restore every one of them or pay his full value....

## Ancestor worship is not well understood.

by Cat on Thu Jan 2nd, 2020 at 05:43:41 PM EST
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December 2019 | 531 comments (531 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)