As Englishmen had become Americans, liberty and equality shifted from customs to rights, and slavery became a very peculiar institution indeed, a repellent anomaly in a world of freedom.
David Randall October 4th, 2019
It was an ordinary event when the first black slaves arrived in the Virginia colony in 1619. Subjection and force were the way of the world.
It wasn’t just that nigh all mankind practiced slavery—that the African enslaved and sold his brothers to the European, that the Arab, the Comanche, and the Melanesian all slaved, that Hebrew Torah and Greek philosophy and Roman law all accepted slavery as part of the world. Every master coerced every servant, whether he was a slave or not.........To Read More...
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