This country was founded by a group of slave owners who wanted to be free. Am I right? lol
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Which country? Argentina?
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The story has never changed throughout the evolution of the Western world. Pilgrims came to America wanting religious freedom, but they denied it to all others. Bankers came charging interest and they made you a slave to them, but they were the trickiest. They got you to call your slavery "freedom" and your ignorance "strength". They even got you to call war "peace". Clever little banksters.
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"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Many of the Founders were slaveholders, yes, but they left the world a better place than they found it. To me, that is the core of the American Dream, not the money-based white-picket-fence-two-kids-and-a-dog bullshit from the 50's. To have the freedom to make my world better, and give my children a better place to grow up. Like (2)
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u really think so?, if u was a native american at tht time i think u would see things just a lil bit differently
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I do think so. The American Revolution reached far beyond our borders, providing the spark for the French Revolution and heralding the end of monarchy and beginning of self-determination of rule. I challenge you to find a group of people who still exist who didn't take the land they currently live on from another group of people. I'm not saying it's right, just that it's how thing work for all peoples. Also, the Colonies at the time of the Revolution had peaceful relations with many tribes of Native Americans, and they had warlike relations with others. The genocide and concentration of Native Americans didn't really begin until the middle third of the 1800's.
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owh.. I was thought it was founded by a group of men who take the native land by forced??? nice info (lol)
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The whole economy is ba
sed on slavery, I hear Chinese workers are too expensive now. Bangladesh is next. Like (2)
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At this rate we'll run out of countries to exploit. Damn capitalistic imperialism...I hate bananas anyway.Like (1)
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Sort of. Many of the prominent members of society owned slaves, yes. But most average citizens did not. Not only that, but the founders were well aware of the tensions that were brewing in regards to emancipation. Compromises were made to protect the integrity of the young country in the hope that if worst came to worst (The Civil War), it would at least be delayed until we were strong enough to withstand it.
Thomas Jefferson, an idol of mine owned slaves. But if you read his autobiography you'll quickly find that abolishing slavery in his local area was one of the first things he attempted to do, but he couldn't muster the political force to do it at the time.Like (2)
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but a pretty good amount of people owned slaves there where roughly 645,000 Africans bought to the U.S in the begining , either way someone was using them ,and alot of people twist history i dont know how credible these autobiographies are
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You're right, history does get twisted. That large number doesn't surprise me, but I also believe that most slave owners usually owned many, so a 645,000 Africans were made slaves to a smaller number of owners of course. Even if it was one to one, the population of colonial US was estimated at about 3 million people, so it would only be about one out of five people owning slaves even if each owner only had one. As for the twisting of autobiographies, it is possible that figures can lie in their stories, but it is well documented that Jefferson freed all of his slaves upon his death. Perhaps it doesn't justify that he owned them, but I believe it is a gesture that indicates he had at least somewhat progressive feelings on the issue.
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Slavery made a lot of countries rich.
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sad but very true
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I agree.But why the hell "lol" - it ruined your perfectly good question.
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sorry bought tht i just found the irony a lil funny
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Idk, I think the people who founded it had a vision for the future of all man being free. Whether or not they owned slaves idk. I know many did but not sure whether they believed it was right and who knows if they ever believed they owned the slaves. Times were different, for some it could have been like a job and may have been treated like equals. I would say better to not lump all in one category
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They owned slaves. Some set them free in their wills others didn't. What's important is they set in motion the events that would one day end slavery on this continent. Whether they knew it or not.
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lol u seemed confused just embrace it this world is based off of contradictions my friend
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Yes, basically. That's who formally founded the U.S.A.
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that's pretty much it.
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No, more like a bunch of "Entrepreneurs" aka thieves and con artists, then religious rebellions, THEN slave owners.
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this was an era of genocide enslavemeant and imperialism ,if u reconize them as Enterpreneurs and founders u must also reconize them as enslavers and destroyers u hav to take the good with the bad
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Because what we call the US of A today, was land solely belonging to native americans and native inhabitants who were willing to, for the most part, share, but got taken advantage of and/or killed by those same "entrepreneurs" you boast about.
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Posted by GnatFree May 31st, 2012 at 2:24AM
Virginia and the southern colonies were founded and settled by a much different group than the Massachusetts commonwealth and the rest of New England. The dissidents of both spread out in the middle and to the west. The Northern colonies were mostly about freedom of religion (Rhode Island and Pennsylvania in particular) and to a certain extent abolitionism.
The southern economy depended very heavily on slave labor and many prominent figures in the revolution and later presidents were slave holders. The question is not did they think it was right to own slaves, but how to sustain their businesses without them. The collapse of the southern economy after the civil war was unavoidable unfortunately. In the revolutionary times however, independence was foremost in the minds of the Patriots.
It is especially worth noting that slavery was first outlawed in the Northwest territories (illinois ohio michigan, etc.) which was the land settled by new englanders and veterans of the American revolutionary war in 1787. So I suppose you could say that was the beginning of the end of slavery, especially since they did it just before the US Constitution was ratified. Perhaps it represented the patriots true intentions, but we'll most likely never know for certain what the founding fathers had in mind collectively.
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