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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
One problem with humanism as the start of the US - their whole underling argument was that certain rights were god given. If we were all created equal, how can one man have the divine right to rule another? It's a great argument imo.
If you define history as the story of humans - which it is - I'd trust humans as far as I can toss TJ 
From what I've read the same or greater number of slaves died in the Atlantic crossing than in Hitlers camps. It's a very nice thing that they are both history.
Pete |
Many of the "Founders" didn't really believe that "all men" were created as equal in the context that we do. They didn't see "Negroes" or women as "men". From all I've read, they apparently only saw themselves as being "men".
A few, such as Adams, saw it differently and were verbally assailed for it. He was one of the few that didn't
own any "negro" slaves or servants.
This morning I read up on the building of D.C. and how, despite the fact that he thought the grandeur of the capital was a "fitting seat for government", he bemoaned realizing why "the Southerners" insisted that the capital be built in the south;
The massive use of slave labor and his suspicion that they were receiving kickbacks from construction contractors.
But, I am told we should return to the "honorable" and "Christian" ways of the Founders..........
LOL!
Dave