We need to name the bad guys specifically. Yes, in once instance(French controlled areas in general, New Orleans in particular) France brought the slaves here and France ran those slave plantations. Yes, in another instance(Spanish controlled areas in general, Florida as one particular) Spain brought the slaves here and Spain ran those slave plantations. (Others, etc, Netherlands for example)
However, in general, slavery in North America is preeminently the fault of the British Empire. They brought slavery here. They ran those plantations. In the 1770s, as the Patriots were developing their identity one of the features that it contained was abolitionism and laws to the effect of slavery-abolition successfully made it to the desks of British-controlled governor's desks in multiple colonies.
The Empire (The King, Parliament{and/or}) it's gubernatorial creatures vetoed those abolitionist laws, preventing them from going into effect.
The more I learn about about these abolitionism vetoes, the more it irks me to see these dismissive statements of "oh Slavery had been around throughout...." BS! No it hasn't and wasn't just "been around", stop saying that! When the patriots decided consciously to abolish slavery, when the patriots consciously decided to write the laws and put them on the governor's desks, and when the KING CONSCIOUSLY DECIDED TO VETO THE LAWS AND PREVENT THEM FROM BECOMING COLONIAL LAW that singular moment everything changed.
Yes, in that moment and from then on it is factual to say that the British Empire forced slavery on America. It wasn't just this inert thing flying around in the air like a mosquito. Oh look another butterfly how quaint. BS! BS!! BS!!!
Our patriot forefathers deserve better. Britain robbed them the opportunity to abolish slavery, which in turn robbed us(you and I, now, those who can read this) the opportunity of being able to proclaim that we abolished slavery before we even proclaimed Independence!!! And in turn, this article robs both us and those early abolitionists even of the recognition that they deserve for the work they did.
As if they didn't exist.
We give the CRT'ers what they want by refusing to acknowledge that WE were correct on anti-slavery well over 50 years before Britain and any of the others and instead acting like slavery was just bacteria in the air - "oh it was just everywhere". No it wasn't just everywhere! Stop saying that!
FRANCE was the bad guy on slavery, not America.
SPAIN was the bad guy on slavery, not America. And most importantly
BRITAIN was the bad guy on slavery, not America.
We need to stop playing this mickey mouse game and start specifically pointing to these evil empires with the resolve that Reagan had for calling out yet another evil empire, cause that's what they were.
Caustic Historians don't deny this, Pre-Revolutionary abolitionism and legislation is a quietly acknowledged fact. They just don't make noise about it because it doesn't fit the narrative.
Only we as conservatives are going to make the noise. And if we aren't the ones making the noise to defend America, this article most certainly doesn't make the noise, that leaves no one left to fight for America for it's distinct and valuable efforts from between 1770 to 1776.
THAT is what makes America truely exceptional. When the entire world was doing slavery, our guys were the exception and put abolition laws on the governor's desk. That's the exception to the rule.
Excellent summary of forgotten history that I have never heard a politician speak to regarding the “ sin of slavery”
Thanks as always for your pings. Also there would have no Africans enslaved were it not for (a) tribes selling other tribe members into slavery to: (b) Moslems slave traders who sold them to the Europeans to begin with. Take away tribal slavery and Moslem slave traders and - NO African slave trade.
My comment is late, but I held the thread to reply...
Thanks for your comment, really a passionate mini-essay.
I have to say that your comment is one of the best things I have read on Free Republic.
We really need argumentive ammunition like this right now.
I think that I would not know all of this without people like you here.
Thanks.