Category: Slavery
October 12, 2018
The 13th Amendment says: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” In my personal position,...
August 11, 2018
Less one gets confused about what this article sets forth, let me say from the outset: I emphatically condemn the American slavery institution that once existed and any lingering support for it; I in no way condone it or justify...
April 24, 2018
The Equal Justice Initiative is an organization “committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.” This...
September 10, 2017
Harvard University has decided to change its official seal. It is said the seal is derived from the family crest of a slave-master family. See USA Today article here for more details. For a partial history of the Harvard seal see...
May 24, 2012
Herein I discuss Benjamin Franklin and founding founders and subsequent leaders. The intent is to inform us as to the thinking, inner conflicts and contradictions of the soul as well as conflicts between persons regarding earlier Americans and the institution,...
May 24, 2012
Less one gets confused about what this paper sets forth, let me say from the outset: I emphatically condemn the American slavery institution that once existed and any lingering support for it; I in no way condone it or justify...
August 29, 2017
President George Washington and the founders did not immediately in our Constitution cease the importation of slaves for the same reason people say the Confederates fought. These reasons are economics, free labor, etc. See Article 1 Section 9 of the...
August 29, 2017
The document here outlining Declaration of Causes for various States gives the reason for their secession from the Union. These declarations clearly establish that the question of slavery was a central reason for secession and the subsequent Civil War; they...
August 29, 2017
The Thirteenth Amendment and the Corwin Amendment On December 6th, 1865 the thirteenth amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. This amendment effectively made slavery in the United States of America illegal. This applied to all states then including those...
August 29, 2017
INTRODUCTION Less one gets confused about what this paper sets forth, let me say from the outset: I emphatically condemn the American slavery institution that once existed and any lingering support for it; I in no way condone it or...
