155 years later and the Yankee propaganda remains remarkably effective.

He had a thick skin. He was a Stoic!

Not Manifest Destiny. Oppose Mexican-American War-Imperialism. Gave diplomatic recognition to Haiti. Exchanged ambassadors. 😊😉😏

Never a member of a church! 😊

I'm pretty sure violating the constitution wasn't doing right.

Newspapers then were MORE partisan then, then now!

Liberia=Colonization. Few Blacks immigrated to Liberia. Jefferson, Jackson. Lincoln colonization pre emancipation. After , not so much. Slaves were worth more than all banks, railroads and factories put together. 😣

@@owlnyc666 You're joking right?

@@davidwebb8217 About what in particilar?

@@owlnyc666 Surely you don't think newspapers are non partisan?

I don't care about Brazil.

@@SandfordSmythe Do you care about Egypt. Slavery existed in Pharaonic Egypt. Libya. In 2016, 1.130% of the Libyan population lived in modern slavery. Greece , West Africa, England , Central America , China , Netherlands & New Zealand all had slaves. By the way, the northern states ran the slave trade and sailed the slave ships. One more thing....slavery still exists to this day.

@@davidwebb8217 Northern trade in slave importation ended in 1808.

@@SandfordSmythe No it didn't. It was just illegal.

@@davidwebb8217 So was it the Northern States that did it, or some criminals that broke the law?

In the Bible it is not said that only the black people to slaves.There were slaves all over Europe.Some of your grandparents who came once were slaves. Learn western history with open mind not with attitude.

Well, if you want to see what Lincoln really thought of the Blacks, you're welcome to read the Lincoln-Douglass debate transcripts. The "Great Emancipator" was pretty unenlightened even by the low standard of his day. As for Jefferson, at least he tried to get slavery abolished during the Constitution's ratification process. He failed, but it was still a damn sight more than Lincoln willingly did for the cause.

@@andrewfusco8580 i know Lincoln was not a racist. But above of all he hated slavery.

@@andrewfusco8580 If we understand Lincoln and Jefferson as politicians first, idealists a distant third which one is Bill Clinton?

Pride is the cause of all sin in all the world in all human beings. The freed slaves who returned to Africa thought themselves to be better than the people in Africa. Carnage ensued.

@@Luvurenemy sorry for the late response. All I can say about Jefferson and Clinton is that both men are profoundly similar: Southern, white American men who rocketed to prominence on a profoundly unjust system. Both identified as Democrats. One founded the University of Virginia, the other was a Rhodes Scholar. Although Jefferson, in his defense, defied the Constitution and rammed through the Louisiana Purchase; whereas Bill Clinton...well, he bombed the crap out of Serbia to side with Kosovoar organ thieves. Actually, come to think of it, Jefferson was a far more noble creature than Clinton.

Indentured servants. Not the same as slaves. They could have stayed in Ireland if they chose to. Slaves have no choices whatsoever.

Sssh! The cretins believe that Blacks are the only race ever subjected to slavery. Don't confuse them!

@@andrewfusco8580 In the American South, planters used the whip to torture ever higher cotton yields out of slaves. Enslaved women could raped with impunity because their children by their masters were legally their masters' property. Slaves' marriages had no real legal standing, with couples and their families being broken up by individuals being sold without notice. Why don't you research what happened rather than seek shallow and dishonest confirmation bias on social media? Indentured servants from Europe were required to work off the cost of their journey to America. Any abuses of indentured servants which occurred were not part of a enormous systematic process to squeeze every last dollar out of them, as occurred in the South. There you go, you can go back to your social studies teacher who dismissed you as an idiot, and tell them you learned something today!

They could gain there freedom lol how can you even compare people who were subjected to slavery for decades to a group of people that had contracts? And all that land the slaves were promised were taken by immigrants so blacks had no way to gain wealth and for the most part stayed on those plantations until the Second World War how can you even compare?

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