Re-Examining the History of Abolition

UMass professor Manisha Sinha joins the Majority Report to discuss international histories of slavery and abolition efforts, focusing on historical underestimation of the role of slaves and ex-slaves in abolition movements.

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5 years old, 1k views, 12 comments.

Feel like I've stumbled upon a time capsule 😂

[Adele.N]

Richard Nixon's mother was a Quaker, but not a liberal Quaker, she was a evangelical Quaker in California. Richard Nixon never ended his membership in the Quaker meeting where he raised in, so he was always able to state he was a Quaker, but he attended an Episcopal church while he was in Washington.

[mrbadguysan]

In before "the civil war wasn't over slavery".

[casares]

Sam, you neglected to ask Ms. Sinha about the caste system in her native India. Still alive and well, just ask the Hindu saviour!

[PDPresents]

Your version of "abolished" and the truth are two different things. Here's what Vermont's constitution says. it damn sure does not abolish slavery. Abolish and except can not be used in the same sentence. Vermont was the 1st to exploit prison slave labor and convict leasing through the state rather than allowing private citizens to own people. That continued until the 1980's when Reagan signed off on the 1st privately owned for profit corporate prison which started the global trend we see today with giants like CORE CIVIC formerly CCA and GEO Group. Now you can once again own people in the form of prison stocks and jail bonds.

Here are the exact words which still are in use today:

“Constitution of the State of VERMONT CHAPTER I. A DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE STATE OF VERMONT Article 1st.
All persons born free; their natural rights; slavery prohibited (notes) That all persons are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent, and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety; therefore no person born in this country, or brought from over sea, ought to be holden by law, to serve any person as a servant, slave or apprentice, after arriving to the age of twenty-one years, bound by the person's own consent, after arriving to such age, bound by law for the payment of debts, damages, fines, costs, the like.”

Does that LOOK LIKE it was abolished to you?

[PDPresents]

28 minutes in listening to you praise the religious right of the times as progressive and I can't listen to any more. You know nothing and are as mistaken now as they were then.

““I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the south is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes, - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, - a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, - and a dark shelter under, which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of the slaveholders find the strongest protection. Were I to be again reduced to the chains of slavery, next to enslavement, I should regard being the slave of a religious master the greatest calamity that could befall me. For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.””
Frederick Douglass, - ― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass