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| Harvard Law Memorial Honors Slaves Owned By School's Founder | |
| 2017-09-07 | |
[HOSTED.AP.ORG] Ummm... Aren't they dead?
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 My impression was that: (1) By the 1800's there were already more than enough slaves (breeding stock excess to plantation workforce, to be brutally clear) in the New World -- mass slavetrading was not cost effective; (2) There was money to be made selling Opium in the Far East (Chinese Products for Opium); and (3) the Old Merchant Families could feel righteous about not doing what they had effectively already stopped doing. |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-09-07 21:17 |
| #3 Slavery enabled societal advances - the labor of slaves freed time and generated resources for a few critical minds to create significant things. In Egypt and Rome in the distant past, and significantly, in the creation of the United States - men like Washington and Jefferson would not have been available to lead the Revolutionary army or write the Declaration of Independence, for instance, and independence was a very close victory. Black Americans should be given credit for, and take pride in, their role in creating this country - even if their role was not voluntary. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-09-07 11:20 |
| #2 Welcome to the real world of 4000 years+ of human slavery. The turn around started in earnest among Protestant British colonies in North America around the early 18 Century, not that you would ever recognize such an event in human history as the Left needs to destroy real history. Where's the guilt grafting in that? /rhet question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-07 07:36 |
| #1 Because they're the ones convinced him to found the school? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-09-07 05:18 |