31 Mar 2025 10:23 am
Those "slaves" were not oppressed. They lived much, much better on most plantations than they did in Africa. Slavery was necessary as a transition from jungle-life to life among civilized people. Unfortunately, the civilized people of that day didn't realize that it would be nearly impossible for Blacks to ever make that transition without the infusion of white DNA.Vegas » 34 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ I enjoy reading American history. usually most of my peaked interests encompass the civil war era. However, the era of the founding years is just as captivating. In particular, I read about how the founders settled the flagrant contradiction between a free nation while holding onto slavery. Most of the founders owned slaves. They knew their hypocrisy. They just never had an answer for it. If they abolished slavery in the beginning, then the newfound country would be economically devastated. The country would collapse faster than it was founded. There is a very high probability that if they abolished slavery in the beginning, then America would never continue, let alone prosper. Jefferson hated the institution of slavery. However, he also knew that if he had freed his slaves, then he would go bankrupt. Slavery had not just needed to continue, at that time, but it needed to be the foundation of the country.
The irony: In order for America to be a free nation, it had to be rooted in oppression.
Also, Black slavery, as it was during America's founding would never have been a problem if the Southern States didn't engage in slavery on an industrial scale. They wanted to get rich on cotton exports, and did, leading to industrial-level slavery. In just a handfull of decades, slaves would have been rendered useless due to mechanization anyway.