Posted on 07/02/2015 4:03:37 PM PDT by Starman417
Your whole post is an oversimplification. Jefferson was one of the very few voices condemning slavery, which had been an institution supported and recognized all around the world for as long as history existed. There was a bit less of it in Europe than in Africa, Asia, and North and South America.
It was a ubiquitous institution. For Jefferson to even criticize it was incredible.
It was Europeans, particularly the British Empire,that almost eradicated Slavery. It hung on in remote parts of the globe like Saudi Arabia and Central Africa where it is practiced to this day.
Now with the rise of Islam, it is seeing a resurgence.
Why blacks think this is just a black thing is beyond me.
Why? That’s the only claim they have and reparations is so enticing.
Because history is more or less reinveted by the education system to conform to the agenda and most students today believe what the commie educators have taught them, we see zombies with talking points and the facts are irrelavant and wrong. The reinvented slavery issues plays well with the oppressed blacks in this country even though thier are more middleclass black families today then ever before. Progress not recognized
It was a ubiquitous institution. For Jefferson to even criticize it was incredible.
Judges in England were ruling slavery illegal in Britain under common law before Jefferson publicly criticized it. While the decisions didn't free all the slaves in the UK, it did indicate how things were going in Britain even before Jefferson put pen to paper.
While Jefferson didn't like many things about slavery, he certainly wasn't a firebrand about it. As he grew older and other people turned against slavery, he didn't follow or lead them. For one thing, he didn't know what to do with the freed slaves and feared violence if slaves were freed and remained in the US. For another, there was the temptation to stand by his state against abolitionists from other places.
Like I said, it was more complicated than the article suggests. The page at montecello.com the writer linked to indicated how complicated Jefferson's attitudes were, but his statement that "Thomas Jefferson had nothing but contempt for slavery" is definitely not the whole of the truth.
The Catholic Church condemned making slaves of the Indians in the New World, which is one of the reasons that slaver did not catch on in Mexico, and why slaves were imported from Africa to Brazil.
Slavery, human sacrifice, and cannibalism were common in Mexico when the Spanish conquered it.
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