Notification of books available by Steven Pelcman
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Some interesting information
Approximately 45 % of colonists in America at the time America was still a British colony were in support of separating from Great Britain.
Of the first 12 U.S. presidents, eight were slave owners.
Out of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence 41 were slave owners.
Half of the Constitutional Convention signers were slave owners
These were the elite of the Founding Fathers of America:
John Adams, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Marshall, George Mason, and George Washington.
The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It was the first of the three Reconstruction Amendments adopted following the American Civil War.
Yet it took another 100 years for there to be a Civil Rights act signed by President Johnson and people question whether America was founded on slavery? America was founded on the hope to establish freedom and independence yet while hoping that would become the new culture of life in America, slavery was a viable and vibrant system of feeding into the economy of the country. If you think of today’s BLM movement or having critical race theory in school to finally look at the realities of American history based on fact and not illusions is not appropriate, then you do not understand or accept the facts of what America was and is today. Like many countries, America often teaches myths not realities, prefers to spread ideological and mythical propaganda rather the truth and facts which are easily found and well documented. When you have leaders that propagate seeing the world from a lens colored in agenda based, self-serving interests, personal opinions and truth embellished by heroic and manipulated based information you are persuaded to believe in such leaders as they appeal to how you want to see the world. But how you see it is not always equal to what the truth is, and abusive people use that to their advantage to mislead you and use you for their own purposes; usually to attain power and wealth. America has always been a racist country; it is part of its DNA. Anyone can easily recognize the history of native Americans (Indians) of the Japanese internment camps during WW2, of the Civil rights issues of the 1950s and 1960s, of the Underground Railroad in the 1850s and 1860s, of the American south refusing to integrate, of the laws in America disallowing people of mixed races to marry. If you do not even know of these simple American truths and do not recognize them as racially bias, then how can you evaluate today’s ongoing systemic wrongs? And the same is valid for the antisemitism or immigration issues throughout American history. If you are going to take a position on anything, first educate yourself to the realities and truths of the issue from historical perspectives rather than voicing illiterate or ignorant opinions which you are free to do but they are indeed emotional opinions often founded in the voices of those who have a purpose to subject you into believing only they are right. Learn, think, discuss, then develop opinions you can justify and believe in because you have supported them with facts.
You might want to read The Founding Fathers and Slavery by William W. Freehling
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1856595
This explains the Constitutional understanding of slavery:
https://ashbrook.org/viewpoint/respub-v6n1-boyd/
