A good thing to get rid of, the idea that humans joining in the formation of a society advanced enough to have written law should consider it right and just that some humans own other humans as property .... seems fantastic now, yet it's not so long since we got rid of it .... still practised in parts of the world too, in the Sudan by local law i believe
Yes you mention your quaker roots above, not with that link though ... interesting ... did i ever tell you i had quaker ancestry as well, one branch ..... they were never in the US though, County Essex
Slavery was hard to kill, because to do so upset the economy completely .... planters would go from being extremely rich to barely getting by, or bankrupt, and they knew that ..... and, they had the money to fight .... last night after posting here i dug up and dusted off The Devil And Daniel Webster, by Stephen Vincent Benét ... great old story, i especially like the last paragraph -
' But they say that whenever the devil comes
near Marshfield, even now, he gives it a wide
berth. And he hasn't been seen in the state of
New Hampshire from that day to this. I'm not
talking about Massachusetts or Vermont. '
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-g- .... yeah ... a lot of surviving tejanos and white texans fought in the 1860s war, on both sides ..... there were anglos even in that area at the time who worked to improve humanity - Chivington's massacre at Sand Creek was immediately criticised by a few, and strongly ... others stood up at times as the lands of chicanos all through the Norte were taken away, their language and customs suppressed .... just not enough of them to balance out the others, until very few years ago, the sixties pretty much
Btw, gold is printing 360.60 ... so there is a benefit in not watching kitco -g- .... cheers |
