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Originally Posted by RhodyRepub
Someone must tell you that not only had slavery been going on for years prior to its inception in the Colonies, but we were the first Nation to codify it's rejection.
Your perspective is greatly distorted.
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Hmm...What do you think the odds are that I
don't know more about slavery than you? Give pause and consider I've probably read and watched a great deal about slavery in general over time. The article on Antonio a Negro (Anthony Johnson) is one of probably hundreds Ive researched or written about on this topic. If you want to argue Ive got no problems with that.
I start here- we weren't the first nation to codify its rejection. If I had to pick Id give it to Britain, I think they technically
banned slavery in the late 16th century, ~1580. But in practice it was sort of permitted until 1780/90). Haiti (the world's first black republic) codified its rejection in 1801.
"slavery had been going on ( yea I know...where? in what fashion?) for years (how many? who was perpetrating it?) prior to its inception (when is that exactly? Does indentured servitude count?) in the colonies (which colonies?)"
^whats the relevance of this comment anyway?
Hollytree is just wrong, really.
The fact of the matter is when this nation started in the 17th century it was
not intended to be whites only. Only either to be free from religious persecution (New England) or to make money (the Middle Atlantic, and later the South). American colonists knew they needed Native knowledge and African crops and labor in order to make it in the New World.
Initially, everyone worked their way out of indentured servitude and it wasn't generational...with the more drastic changes to local laws occurring in the 1660s and 1670s. But from nearly the beginning black were often given longer terms of serving, and were hassled in public courts. This legal bullying led to the law changes we saw in the 1660s. That was developed later, to justify the entrenchment of slavery as well as westward expansion. And then later strengthened by 19th and early 20th-century scientific racism and eugenics.
This is all good proof of why RI needs black history in its public schools.
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