Slavery was so insidious because it took what started as good clay for a good man and corrupted it with outrageous profit. So much so where a man was worth his weight in silver and abolishing the slave trade just turned the old south into a slave factory and the new south into a plantation society so profitable in cottons hey day, that they could not.onlu bear the huge cost of chattel slaves, but had a hrad time meeting their need for labor. Jefferson sold even some of his slave siblings seeing all his slaves as a means to meet his huge irresponsible debts at the end of his life. Even Washington who was the beat of the slave holding founders and the only one who manumitted his slaves, could not bring himself to give up the practice while he lived. Even our great Cincinnatus was corrupted by it. If it could taint Washington, who could resist it's pull that had recourse to it and no other resource so easily made into money which southerners knew no other way to get.
You know what makes me angry? When people reference the spirit of 1776. My people of New England, our people, began the revolution alone when we fought them at Lexington, Concord, Arlington and on the slopes of Breeds Hill in 1775.
Outstanding Performance. Beautifully written and delivered.
Nicely done, Dr. Hattem. I love the Hero Myth connection and appreciate the racial aspects of remembering the Revolution.
Slavery was so insidious because it took what started as good clay for a good man and corrupted it with outrageous profit. So much so where a man was worth his weight in silver and abolishing the slave trade just turned the old south into a slave factory and the new south into a plantation society so profitable in cottons hey day, that they could not.onlu bear the huge cost of chattel slaves, but had a hrad time meeting their need for labor.
Jefferson sold even some of his slave siblings seeing all his slaves as a means to meet his huge irresponsible debts at the end of his life.
Even Washington who was the beat of the slave holding founders and the only one who manumitted his slaves, could not bring himself to give up the practice while he lived. Even our great Cincinnatus was corrupted by it.
If it could taint Washington, who could resist it's pull that had recourse to it and no other resource so easily made into money which southerners knew no other way to get.
You know what makes me angry? When people reference the spirit of 1776. My people of New England, our people, began the revolution alone when we fought them at Lexington, Concord, Arlington and on the slopes of Breeds Hill in 1775.
uhm no. washington was a virginian.... don't make dumb comments
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