Abraham Lincoln and Alexander H. Stephens Part I: Peace Negotiations of 1863 In June 1863, Alexander H. Stephens urged Jefferson Davis to open negotiations with the Union government regarding the exchange of military prisoners: ‘I think I might do some good – not only on the immediate subject in hand,” wrote the Confederacy’s vice

Well, I’ll start a new thread, even though I don’t see people rushing to comment on the old one. Entry 53

Defending the Faith; Denying the Image – Abstract. Ligon Duncan. Summary: How 19 th century Presbyterians simultaneously faithfully defended historic Christian orthodoxy against Enlightenment rationalistic anti-supernaturalism, and accommodated (indeed undergirded) America’s original sin: race-based chattel slavery (and later segregation).

It shouldn’t need to be said, but the Confederacy didn’t stand for opposing federal overreach or eliminating handouts to big business—it stood for slavery.

1 DEATH OF THE WILLIE LYNCH SPEECH, Part III: 12 Reasons to Stop Promoting the Fake “Willie Lynch” Speech ~ Prof. Manu Ampim It is well-documented that slavery was a brutal anti-Black institution organized by Euro-Americans, and thus

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Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and killing economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy.

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

While Islam traditionally permits slavery, most contemporary Islamic authorities argue that the practice is inapplicable in the modern world. However, a ity of contemporary Islamic jurists defend slavery as still relevant and permissible today, and it is actively practiced by Islamist extremist groups.

Slavery’s history stretched back to antiquity. Prior to the American Revolution, nearly everyone in the world accepted it as a natural part of life. 1 English colonies north and south relied on enslaved workers who grew tobacco, …