She will speak at this year's Fall PATCON
While defending the Constitution I am met often with two questions: 1) If the founders were so great and the Constitution such a great document, why did it preserve slavery? 2) Why did the Constitution treat black people as 3/5th a person? The answers to these questions are rather simple when fact and truth are employed. To understand the truth, we start with some basics…
In June of 1776 the Lee Resolution was ratified and was the legislative action that authorized the Declaration of Independence. This Resolution was a three step process to declaring independence from Great Britain and establishing a union of States:
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I know the answers, and suspect that I know what she'll say. That said, will you be able to record and put it up for us?
ReplyDeleteWe haven't decided on the subject/s of her talk/s yet, but I imagine there will be a video.
DeleteThe Industrial Revolution is what ended slavery, and it was well under way before the start of the war.. Most slaves continued to work the fields after the war, and under conditions that were not much different than before the war. Humans were pulled from the fields when it became more profitable to do the work by machine.
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Long before unprofitable in the north.
DeleteWhat killed slavery was the war. What killed work in the fields was the boll weevil.
ReplyDeleteWhat killed work in the fields was the boll weevil.
DeletePicking cotton by humans in the fields was only negated by more efficient machinery and went on through much of the last century.
True. But the weevil forced the transition away from the dominance agriculture had played up till that time. It was the first time people began considering alternatives. It also drove many into the cities in search of work. Ever see the monument to that little bug?
ReplyDeleteEver see the monument to that little bug?
DeleteSeems I remember something along that line.