Slavery Made America Great

Loud and clear . . . America was built with free labor and free trade.   An undeniable fact.  How can African Americans be so confused about their future? How are the facts so twisted? Free labor, also known as slavery is the perfect interlude to greatness, greed, profits and power.    The answer to divisiveness in this country is not shades of grey, only black and white.  Our African American ancestors. . . made America great with their involuntary servitude  under inhuman conditions.

This is a very important article and I only have a few words for this reminder to the America people,

because slavery, as dim and dark as it was,  is a part of  America’s history.  But America has changed.

Between the 1600’s and the late 19th century, the United States of America was nearly 85% white     Now hold that point.

Slavery was already legal in all thirteen(13)colonies when the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776.  So much of history dismisses the face that the invention of the cotton gin greatly increased demand for more slave labor and the south had the ideal weather and Negro slaves for fueling the rest of the states.  More than one million slaves were actually sold from the upper south and taken to the Deep South thus further splitting up many more families.  Common sense would further formulate that the country was constantly growing in all directions, i.e., north, south, east and west. “Free labor” is a whole food, amorous, intoxicating, a natural stimulant, motivating great and evil deeds simultaneously.   As the western United States developed, the southern state governments kept a “strategy” between the number of slaves and Free states in order to maintain a political balance of power in Congress. Hold that point also.

Around the 1850’s, the newly really, really rich, white men millionaires and billionaires, cotton growing southerners (with their “free” labor) . . . threatened to secede from the union.  The railroad had a donor for the  “steam engine” cost.   Another “ free labor project”  that made America great, to move the “free labor” profit and products  across country.   Slavery indeed, made America great . . . for a few.

In 1860 President Lincoln was elected President and in 1863 the Civil War ended legal slavery on top soil. Underground it continued.   Let me quickly explore the number of slaves imported  in these states.   Between 1751 and 1775 the numbers were up to 85,580, an exact number.  The years 1801 – 1825 bought 109,545 enslaved people to the states.  Slavery ended in and around 1865, depending on the state and the political permission for the announcement of same.

Much has been written about “Making-America-Great-Again”, which is an absolute insult to me and other African Americans.  The African American . . .  has been there.  Done that.

Finally, on points.  Be careful America.  We are not 85% white anymore and the balance of power is in quick sand.

Ester Davis is an award winning writer.

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