In 16 and 1700's, what gave the colonists the idea to buy slaves, to bound and control them for laborers, when most colonist came to America so they could have a better and more free and productive lifestyle, yet become masters over other human beings destiny? Was it their european background, even though most never owned a slave in Europe, yet here these pioneers come and instill in a colony state, the attitude of enslavement. Power over other men. Then later to fight against taxation without representation from their sovergn King? It seems as if the colonist wanted their cake and ate it too and be damned their background and morality, pray on sunday against oppression from the British, yet whip and have slaves do much of their labor here for gain and power. What are your thoughts on this? The first slave was thought to have arrived in Jamestown Virginia, around 1615. Was that person transported from England and was this the start of slavery in America?
2007-02-10
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