History, like the news today, is filled with disinformation. From Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD, at lewrockwell.com:
This article updates and expands one I wrote with this title for LewRockwell.com 22 years ago. It is taken from a talk I gave on this subject at the 41st Annual Meeting of Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (ddponline.org) in Tucson last week. This article has seven of the slides used in that talk.
The reigning narrative of the U.S. Civil War is that the Northern States had to fight a war against the slave-holding Southern States in order to end slavery in America. Is that true?
Slavery in the Western Hemisphere
Slavery existed in human societies for more than 3,000 years. In the 400-year period from 1500 to 1900, slave traders transported ten-to-twelve million Africans to countries in the Western Hemisphere, most to Brazil. They transported less than 500,000 Africans to the American Colonies and then States, less than 5% of all African slaves shipped to countries in the Western Hemisphere.
It was legal to own slaves in all 13 American Colonies, before and after Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence. Vermont partially banned slavery in 1777 and Pennsylvania in 1780. Ohio abolished slavery in 1802 and New Jersey in 1804. In 1806, President Thomas Jefferson called for criminalizing the international slave trade. New York abolished adult slavery in 1829, but their children were to remain indentured (work without a salary) for a specific number of years.
The second American Revolution.
People can look up Ape Lincoln’s comments on slavery to see the real deal.
Ending da slabery was tacked on at the end to justify the carnage that was done to preserve the District of Cesspool Leviathan.
Thank you. Excellent post.
You’re welcome.