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rinselberg
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OCT 14, 01:31 PM
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The Constitution was established as the foundation of a new Federal Government on June 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the ninth from the 13 original states of the yet very nascent United States that would eventually ratify it.
On September 19, 2015, The Atlantic published one of historian David Waldstreicher's essays, probing the nexus between the "peculiar institution" of slavery as it had taken hold in the former Thirteen American British Colonies and the U.S. Constitution.
| quote | | Americans and their leading historians still find it hard to account for how their [American] Revolution, considered as a quarter-century of resistance, war, and state-making, both strengthened slavery and provided enough countercurrents to keep the struggle against it going. Tougher still is understanding how the work of 1787 constitutionalized slavery—hardwired it into the branches, the very workings, of the federal government. |
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| quote | | But the fact that it took a civil war to settle the debate about the Founders’ intentions for slavery’s future shows that, as John Quincy Adams came to understand and assert during the 1830s, there was no constitutional way except the exercise of war powers to end slavery in the United States. You can call that the founders’ design, but it seems more a design flaw than something to celebrate. When it takes a war to resolve something, humane persons call it a failure or a tragedy. They don’t blame the people who point out the roots of the problem, unless their agenda is less historical than political. |
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"How the Constitution Was Indeed Pro-Slavery"
David Waldstreicher for The Atlantic; September 19, 2015.
https://www.theatlantic.com...-pro-slavery/406288/
Odds are, you're not a subscriber to The Atlantic, but there is the possibility of reading this article as a "freebie". I think it's one of the more informative and well-written essays on this topic. An average reader would need about 8 minutes to plow through it attentively from the first word to the last.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 10-14-2022).]
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MidEngineManiac
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OCT 14, 01:57 PM
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Where the HELL did you get the idea slavery was ever abolished ?
Take one look around you !
Same sheet, just a different master.[This message has been edited by MidEngineManiac (edited 10-14-2022).]
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