Posted on 07/08/2021 6:50:33 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
In 1864, Robert Dale Owen (A congressman from Indiana) published the book "The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States", which traces the beginning of slavery from its roots in the British Empire(with in-depth statistics) up through the colonies and the days just prior to the Civil War.
The audio can be downloaded from here.(text here) This audio is free and open source in the public domain.
I have a lot to say about this book, and I want to warn everybody that this book is not what it appears. But I'll get into that later. For now, I'm starting to realize that if I plan my timing carefully I can work two audiobooks at the same time more gracefully than I had realized - one as a solo production and one as a collaboration. This book from the Civil War era is only a temporary stop. To be honest, the Civil War is so played out that I find it to be, quite frankly, boring, and besides this one was one that someone else needed help with. I'll be looking forward to doing more coverage of the Founding as I can get these staggered correctly going forward.
The progressives moved mountains to coverup and disguise the Founding. That's a more valuable (and interesting) use of my time for collaborative works.
Ping.....
Ping - You’ll end up running into this at some point.
No matter who or why slavery came to and exited in America. Slavery did not have its roots in the British Empire. Slavery has been around since man.
Perhaps my favorite book from the era is Theodore Weld's "Bible Against Slavery".
Instead of recoiling every time the history of slavery is mentioned, what we ought to do is yell loudly that most of the so-called "enlightened" people were for it in an era when most "evangelical" Protestants were against slavery.
My Lord, more of this crap.
Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough! Enough!
Yes, and that Christian abolitionist movement has been absolutely erased by the historians.
That can be changed. I’ve had enough with these agenda-driven historians.
It’s not going to stop until we make it stop. That means taking ahold of it and ruining the progressives’ narrative.
Unfortunately (I say that as the descendant of Southern Unionist Republicans), the "chrstian abolitionist movement" was not orthodox. It was made up of free-thinkers, Unitarians, Transcendentalists, "free love" advocates, and people who wanted to abolish all "power relationships" (including husband and wife). Naturally such people would go after slavery first before moving on to marriage.
However, this does not mean that one must be a nihilistic freak to oppose slavery. There were perfectly orthodox chrstians who fought against it, such as Wilburforce, Charles G. Finney, and that most right wing of right wing Catholic converts, Orestes Brownson. And the most radical abolitionist of them all (John Brown) was an orthodox Fundamentalist Calvinist.
The irony to all this is that slavery is permitted and regulated by unchanging Divine law (Halakhah), and it is forbidden to add to or take from Divine Law.
Would we have had Slavery in the USA if a Black Man in the 1600’s didn’t WIN the RIGHT to Own Fellow Blacks as Slaves by the Courts???
I don't know of Robert Dale Owen shared the beliefs of his father.
From The Wall
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5diMImYIIA
Paraphrased for critical race theory, critical legal theory and critical theory…
If you don’t accept our Marxism sourced interpretations you can’t discuss race and racism. How can you discuss race unless you accept our explanations of racism!
Yes, we would have. It was going to happen. The historians have perverted the history on this to blame America, but at every and any point in the 1600s these were Courts of the Empire.
Slavery was in every colony of the Empire - at least any in the Western Hemisphere. Pick any one you want.(Antigua, Jamaica, etc. Any one) Slavery is how the Empire made its money. It was going to happen.
Yeah, I found all that out about who Dale Owen was after agreeing to assist with the audiobook. It’s alright, back in those days the schools at least taught the Founding so someone like R.D.Owen couldn’t go very far.
In tracing the history he uses an abundance of original source material that are all valuable resources in their own right.
“... even if only 2% to 5% of white families in the society had slaves”
The tyranny of the minorities continues. Nothing new here.
Ding ding ding ding, we have a winner.
every religion, race etc has been slaves at tone time or another.
Today there are more slaves throughout the world than ever before.
But as you say, slavery has been around since the dawn of man.
Yep. I've said it before: if you go back far enough probably everyone on the planet has family that was enslaved at some point.
Slav comes from “slave”.
how many freedoms can you have taken away.
Or,how much taxes can be taken from you..which basically are funding our destruction..before you are considered a slave?
I think it is the reverse. Slave comes from "slav".
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