Napoleon faces problems in Europe and a slave revolt and decides to offer Louisiana to the United States at bargain basement prices (although there is no way France could have held on to the territory anyway). And Jefferson goes for it.
But the slaves of Hispaniola (Haiti) did not revolt to allow Jefferson that real estate deal. And for American slave holders in the south, that slave revolt filled them with dread.
Admit it, EBL -- you'd like to see Crack shipped in chains back to Europe where he would be mistreated - forced to drink homeopathic water, chant, do yoga - and die in prison.
Btw, perhaps the Washington Redskins football team should change their name to the Washington Merciless Savages. From the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of Great Britain] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
Indians have bigger issues right now than the Redskins problem -- I posted links. Most of the Oneida see this latest as just some more political redirection/misdirection from some of their tribal counsel members -- politicians lie (and will try to line their pockets at the people's expense). Now one way to fix this would be for the Redskins owner to change the name voluntarily (it is an unattractive racial slur -- the Indian motif could even stay, but choose a better name), and concerned non-Indian people could start asking some tough questions about just what exactly is (and has)= been) going on on the rez rather than focusing on a football team's name.
Nah, too much to ask isn't it? Yeah, I thought so.
According to Jefferson's autobiography, Congress struck the passage from the final version of the Declaration in deference to South Carolina and Georgia, who wanted to continue the slave trade with Africa. This is the stricken passage: "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."
Napoleon faces problems in Europe and a slave revolt and decides to offer Louisiana to the United States at bargain basement prices (although there is no way France could have held on to the territory anyway). And Jefferson goes for it.
ReplyDeleteBut the slaves of Hispaniola (Haiti) did not revolt to allow Jefferson that real estate deal. And for American slave holders in the south, that slave revolt filled them with dread.
I do not think it is a big secret.
Admit it, EBL -- you'd like to see Crack shipped in chains back to Europe where he would be mistreated - forced to drink homeopathic water, chant, do yoga - and die in prison.
ReplyDeleteBtw, perhaps the Washington Redskins football team should change their name to the Washington Merciless Savages. From the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of Great Britain] has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
ReplyDeleteIndians have bigger issues right now than the Redskins problem -- I posted links.
ReplyDeleteMost of the Oneida see this latest as just some more political redirection/misdirection from some of their tribal counsel members -- politicians lie (and will try to line their pockets at the people's expense).
Now one way to fix this would be for the Redskins owner to change the name voluntarily (it is an unattractive racial slur -- the Indian motif could even stay, but choose a better name), and concerned non-Indian people could start asking some tough questions about just what exactly is (and has)= been) going on on the rez rather than focusing on a football team's name.
Nah, too much to ask isn't it? Yeah, I thought so.
PW
According to Jefferson's autobiography, Congress struck the passage from the final version of the Declaration in deference to South Carolina and Georgia, who wanted to continue the slave trade with Africa.
ReplyDeleteThis is the stricken passage: "He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another."
http://www.founding.com/the_declaration_of_i/pageID.2457/default.asp#