Untold History: More Than A Quarter of U.S. Presidents Were Involved in Slavery, Human Trafficking

www.democracynow.org - As the country marks Presidents' Day, we turn to an aspect of U.S. history that is often missed: the complicity of American presidents with slavery. "More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery. These presidents bought, sold and bred enslaved people for profit. Of the 12 presidents who were enslavers, more than half kept people in bondage at the White House," writes historian Clarence Lusane in his most recent article, "Missing From Presidents' Day: The People They Enslaved."
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[@cheryldugas5412]

And they have not truly edited the Constitution to this day to truly include black people under the law. Censorship will not change these truths which I hold self-evident under my universal law

[@DonBJ21]

WE MUST WRITE OUR OWN HISTORY! TY FOR THIS CONVERSATION 🙏🏾✌🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@manueldumont3709]

While ur at it, Document how Rome is Actually Owned by slaves(who Built Rome) . 🤔

[@bevwilliams3739]

is already there, find it!

[@janetdesmith8125]

@@bevwilliams3739 it's matter of asking the right questions. Also having a library with access to books from other libraries.

[@kevinwells6115]

As If America Has Really Changed!

[@forsale313]

And there is no real effort being put into changing it because that change means..........They gotta' GO !!!

[@msann5707]

Why didn't he mention Jefferson's mistress Sally Hemmings that had a secret room that lead to his bedroom.

[@denisshillingford6604]

Sally was not his mistress. Sally was a bed-warmer for Thomas Jefferson and his wife when she was a little girl of about 9 years old. This is when Thomas Jefferson the pedophile begin the sexually abused Sally. Sally was a slave Sally was not his mistress. Sally was being held hostage just like all the other slaves on the plantation. When Thomas Jefferson's wife died he made her into his play toy and carried her all over the country and in Europe. He was asked by many European men where could they get them a beautiful slave woman like. Sally was a slave a beautiful slave that Thomas Jefferson used as an image on his arm

[@stcroix7722]

Just like the secret room that was found in the white house were presidents and congressmen used to have special relations with black servsnts. Just like in the Caribbean archer one island where the Europeans fought against each other to own it. While doing hat he slaves had o adjust o different languages . yet everyone of the European men had sexual relationships with black slaves such gods against they ideology but they did it. From the French,Spanish, British,Portuguese, Dutch, even the jews, and nights of mslta. They all married they European wives UT still had sexual relationships and birthed many children. There by being the first dead beat dads.

[@u.s.n.retired1995]

This was fantastic. The Professor taught me some things I wasn't aware of. It's sickening the way my ancestors were used and abused by evil and can't even get a honorable mention.

[@stephanieduncan9143]

This is AMERIKKKA for us✊🏾

[@kenyarrains4153]

Lies lies lies half truth and more lies why y'all keep trying to hide George Washington was a slave? His last name didn't belong to him "Washington" derives from "Washitaw"(from Washitaw Moors)the US president was not the first president either(which he admitted)the 8th I believe George turned against king Charles after the Washitaw moors freed him(and others)so the biggest lie is the dark skinned Washitaw moor with the red turban 👳 are the people who freed him and others("the British are coming")theres also proof that George wrote to the sultan of the Washitaw/Washington moors in the house of congress taking an oath to serve him and the moors which of course started wars from breaking the "Peace and Friendship" treaty now the so called blacks are still being abused from freeing them till this very day yall never speak this only civil rights/slavery what are yall hiding from the people?

[@kenyarrains4153]

@Marjorie Tillman "BLM" and NAACP was by the same who named this places after people like one school is named after Rockafellas mom(all melaninated school)

[@vespasianflavius8778]

I would also be concerned about how your ancestor’s fellow Africans enslaved them and sold them to Europeans to be shipped to the new world.

[@vespasianflavius8778]

@@stephanieduncan9143 Please, tell me what African Nations democratically elected a racial minority to its highest office.

[@angrycannibal6625]

AND STILL WE RISE!!! No wonder CRT is so debated, the murders, thieves, rapists and liars will be exposed. We demand REPARATIONS!

[@tracismith2496]

We will not get it we are going to rule this world 🌍 that's better than any money 🤑💰

[@denisshillingford6604]

Your black elected officials in the Democrat party in Washington DC I'm not about reparations for black people because the majority of white Democrats and Republicans are against reparations. The last black congressman that was for reparations was John Conyers he had been bringing up the issue ever since 1969. Joe Biden and other white Democrats like him have been very clear they are against reparation for black people. Barack Obama was against reparations for black people and he was clear on it that's why he never brought the issue up. He would have never been president if he believed in reparations for black. The issue of reparations have to be brought up in the United Nations the whole world has to be behind us because both political parties are not behind reparations for blacks

[@Bigbudda12]

Kudos to Prof. Lusane.

[@bobsmitth497]

FJB

[@michaelharris1616]

We can not change history but we can learn from it

[@djpseudoname2023]

Michael I agree. I recommend to anyone interested in history to read, "How White Folks Got So Rich." This booklet explores the government policies, corporate schemes, and devious actions that are at the very foundation of white wealth. If history is to help us to understand change and how the society we live in came to be, it should be taught to include inexscapable facts. The past causes the present, and so the future. To anyone with any racist remarks regarding the video, I choose not to dignify with a response. Ignorance is a glue that binds people. The like-minded find one another and cling together using "safety in numbers" as a shield against any outside influence.

[@tijjidinmontgomery7287]

that part

[@ordinaryaverageguy5440]

Michael Harris Not here . Our education is pathetic at best

[@Jake-nk4wg]

No one wants to "change history" only to put back that which was omitted, hidden, removed.

[@mmpoggs2033]

I have my doubts, the native looks for kind nature markers where the order givers do not posses kindness traits. It simply is not in them. So we the ruled still are overwhelmed while we look for traits of kindness we are grabbed! Have we learnt through the outworking of billions of generational descendants ‘no’ because we are still beaten into submission as we gaze into the eyes of our rulers for some sign for a flicker of recognition that we are brothers! they bring the stick down upon our backs and we again will fall to our knees! We have not learned anything! That in the eyes of our jailers there is nothing but brutality that they see nothing of themselves in us. What then is this difference? Soul! The eyes are the window of the soul and it is not in those superior eyes!

[@leonardmayer2362]

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why we call it the Present.

[@forsale313]

Well put but........I have never been a fan of receiving a big bag of Bull$hyt as a Present!

[@lionelwitherspoon762]

There ain't no hiding place from the Father of creation.

[@tijjidinmontgomery7287]

yep gods world

[@damnedyankee946]

@@tijjidinmontgomery7287 Who's god? What god? No gods around this earthly plain. Non whatsoever.

[@Soph149]

Amen.

[@dalecole5315]

The BIBLE is full of Slavery stories and one of the stories is you could only beat the slave 40 strikes! The great Abrahams (Jewish/ Muslim, and Christian ) first child was from a slave of his wife Sarah!

[@schmoborama]

is that who we thank for the millions of innocent ppl who lived and died in slavery?

[@actnaturalunderpressure]

I enjoyed this piece and reading the comments

[@georgiannaroney7514]

We were taught these things if you were in school in the 30's 40's and 50's by our black, college educated teachers. Libraries were closed so books that had that info were Removed ,hidden or destroyed. We were also taught the first people greeting Europeans were black indigenous people (Indians) and or people of color.

[@josephfigueira813]

Yes,yes! It was blacks. 🤯🤯😱😱😱😱🤔🤔🤔

[@indigenous31617]

Sorry. My people aren't black.

[@perrybrackins72]

@@indigenous31617 That’s not what they’re saying, before slavery, blacks were already here, did you know there’s pyramid’s here that’s been kept secret, I trace my roots, none of my grandparents came from Africa, this is the misconception they change the narrative like we all came from Africa, historians said the history here in America is wrong

[@DC-zx5mt]

Let's not tread on erasure of native Americans. What book depicted indigenous as black?

[@fenyoaeemckinney2144]

Duuh! AmeriKKKans be the most ignorant and in denial of history!😫

[@philais]

And? Only 25%? I would say that the last 5 or 6 Presidents are to be included in that list....are we more free than we were in 1960 or less?

[@michaelwalker5595]

as americans, we know our history; it is about time we do something about it.

[@josephfigueira813]

We must 🤯🤯🤯🤯😱😱😱😱🙉🙉

[@Ellieempress]

Exactly👍😂🎯

[@arizjones]

Really? What are you going to do about it? So you know history? Black history is fun. Did you know that the first legal slave owner in America was a black man? Yep it is true. Anthony Johnson a black man had the contracts of indentured servants. And when they worked off their contract they were supposed to be free (just like Johnson had been). But Johnson being the conscious black man that he was decided he wanted to enslave John Castor for life. So he went to court to get permanent ownership. At the time there were no legal slaves in the British colonies according to common law. Thanks to that conscious black man Anthony Johnson a new precedent was set.

[@arizjones]

More fun black history. The person that owned the most slaves in South Carolina was a BLACK man named William Ellison. Not only did he own slaves (a large number of slaves) but all his sons owned slaves as well. Not only that but this black man offered labor from his numerous slaves to the Confederate army and Ellison and his sons donated money, and bought Confederate bonds to help the Confederate cause. So don't believe it when you are told just white people engaged in slavery. Truth be told less than 4 percent of all white Americans of the time owned slaves.

[@e-dog-e619]

They need to Pay Reparations. Truth is coming🦶🏿🦶🏿

[@bobsmitth497]

Usofunnnnnie😂🇺🇸

[@NLC519]

Hahahahahha.

[@denisshillingford6604]

@@bobsmitth497 most white racist demons think and you're no different animal

[@denisshillingford6604]

@@NLC519 there's not one white racist demon that does not think this issue is funny. There are millions of you in Amerikkk

[@NLC519]

It's actually hilarious. "Blood testing to prove genetic validation" is exactly Nazi Germany. Maybe we will all IDENTIFY as black if that is all that's needed. See? It's hilarious.

[@henryward5725]

If you notice that obama never addresses black issues, but gives praise to the french government and thomas Jefferson. It is known that in politics a term is used called " benign neglect " which means never to address Black Issues in politics.

[@miltonelliott8506]

You right about that I learned it from dr. Claud Anderson

[@carhac66]

obama was not the only president that ignored it, but we have had many presidents did far worse. name them also!

[@carlabroderick5508]

This is untrue. Obama did support the movement to reform police brutality and racism. Why deny our black president promoted civil rights?

[@curtisthomas2670]

😄😆😀

[@nycatlady2314]

I wondered about that at the time. As I’ve read his books and listened to people who worked in his administration it’s become clear that he’s a very careful person who realized that change has to come slowly and incrementally. He was hated by many just for being black. He was accused of being a terrorist and a Muslim (as if that’s a dirty word). It was a very tight rope he walked to be able to serve all the people and reach and be accepted by as many as possible. He knew it would probably not enough for some black people and too much for many white people. The proof that he was right is the backlash that happened since he left office.

[@chalkyblack7582]

My Great-grandfather help build America

[@Vonnie777]

Thank you for this unknown history in America. Very interesting 👌 👍 🤔 😊

[@arizjones]

In what way was any of this "unknown"? How about something you don't know? The person that owned the most slaves in South Carolina was a BLACK man named William Ellison. Not only did he own slaves (a large number of slaves) but all his sons owned slaves as well. Not only that but this black man offered labor from his numerous slaves to the Confederate army and Ellison and his sons donated money, and bought Confederate bonds to help the Confederate cause. So don't believe it when you are told just white people engaged in slavery. Truth be told less than 4 percent of all white Americans of the time owned slaves.

[@Vonnie777]

@@arizjones two wrongs don't make it right. Peace!

[@nathanhicks2000]

emancipation shouldn't have included segregated history if we are too truly reconcile our differences.

[@AJ-sr3hl]

The history of America isn’t complicated, it’s the lies that are complicated not the truth.

[@forsale313]

right, when one tells a lie another one has to told to cover the First one and so on and so on. Don't have to ask how we got here!

[@mupenzirobzy6643]

The world should put a day to remember slaves who died in America

[@NLC519]

Yes! Including the black-owned slaves. The Irish slaves should also be honored

[@marthacmd]

I have the book the Black History of the White house! Highly Recommend

[@shortythepresident3913]

Yo, Dude. i've heard of that book. I heard John Henrick Clarke speak about it in a speech. I'm gonna go check right now to see if they have an ebook.

[@NLC519]

Is there a book about the white houses white history? Of course not. Do you not see the double standard racism? The irony makes you all look stupid

[@infinite54]

I heartily agree that we must recognize the truth of our past to begin the healing. We also need to recognize the injuries done to native Americans and women. Many minority women do not recognize the fact that even as "free" women, they still had no rights to vote, to own property or even the legal right to their own children.

[@oliviamonteque6407]

Why are you saying "we". Tell the truth, you mean white people must start telling the truth, and facing the things their have done, not half, not quarter, not 1 procent but the complete truth !

[@chrispreston256]

What needs recognition is the fact rights are not given from government your born with them, government is assigned to protect them. Just one piece of evidence that we no longer have a government and many others prove the same.

[@arizjones]

Native Americans also enslaved each other.

[@readmylisp]

Slavery was common practise among American Indians.

[@ndadikpa]

More than 70% of leaders around the world at that time were involved in slavery. African leaders, Asian leaders, Arabian leaders, European leaders, and American leaders all around the world at that time were all involved let's not make it look like it was only the Whites.

[@noirsaba]

If we for a second stop trying to mitigate the horrors of slavery and stop trying to apologize for the the enslaver we can see just how monstrous these people were! Put yourself in the shoes of an enslaved person and just try to imagine it from their perspective, unapologetically! This was worst than any thing you could imagine, to have your life totally dictated by sick individuals who have to justify their greed, their avarice, by convincing you and the world that you're not human; the brutality that such a lie requires. If you need help imagine being a child born into slavery or better still imagine being transported back in time and waking up in it. It was absolutely wrong and those who participated in it are not deservant of such fervent efforts at redemption. It is what it is. Let them be wrong and condemned for it.

[@kittykat4362]

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[@chrispreston256]

America is demonized for slavery by itself. Every race has been a victim of slavery throughout history but it was Americans who put a stop to it and unlike popular opinions slaves weren't treated as bad as the stories say and the civil war wasn't about slavery. Lincolns reply to Greely tells the real truth. And anyone with a brain could figure that one out because not too many slave owners fought on either side. So that would mean almost everyone in the south fought to keep the rich plantation owners their workforce

[@perrybrackins72]

Thank You, well said, my point is this, before slavery, blacks where here, all the pyramids discovered on this soil, and they hide our truth, pyramids in the Grand Canyon it’s off limits, I trace my ancestors none came from Africa our family have its own cemetery and my grandmother I went back as far as I could go, plus other family members done some research as well, why hide the truth every secret in this Country is being revealed, even forensic archeologists said the history is wrong in America

[@arizjones]

At the height of slavery in America the person that owned the most slaves in South Carolina was a BLACK man named William Ellison. Not only did he own slaves (a large number of slaves) but all his sons owned slaves as well. Not only that but this black man offered labor from his numerous slaves to the Confederate army and Ellison and his sons donated money, and bought Confederate bonds to help the Confederate cause. So don't believe it when you are told just white people engaged in slavery. Truth be told less than 4 percent of all white Americans of the time owned slaves.

[@noirsaba]

@@arizjones and white people owned the rest......you sound desperate.

[@keeponpushingenterprisesk.9823]

Great info ..

[@micah9096]

Slavery or human trafficking?

[@denisethorbjornsen7493]

Very interesting to learn the truth about history and what really went on

[@michellesgreen]

My grandmother Evylenia Robinson a Eastern Star told me many stories as a little girl.

[@maryanndavey9935]

The lies continue!

[@charlesnixon6988]

Thank You.

[@toddmaek5436]

One thing we should understand is that Native Black Americans are owed reparations. Slavery was just the BEGINNING in a long rich history of Anti Blackness

[@MiloTheCrotonian]

Yes become native Americans, have the dependency of them, have the terrible. Communities like them

[@jeffgreer198613]

Who is gonna pay?

[@matthewconner463]

Interesting facts✍🏽

[@jamescarter8699]

Does any Black person not think for sake of our children, we don't need an exit strategy ❓All the evidence is there in history as well as today's events.

[@lateraldeano]

No mention of Benjamin Bannecker

[@lolakepi]

So true !

[@ritabethany4868]

Both them is my ancestor and i living. Learn alots about my family. Doing my family tree.

[@brendond.3158]

How about George Washington's BD. He on that small boat showed that the British slaves were helping George Washington when he went house to house.

[@leodawn5913]

Information like this makes it clear we need to do reparations in this country and start teaching the TRUTH about our history This whole thing about CRT is gonna backfire because everybody’s gonna wanna know what actually happened and people are gonna start hitting the books, and those books are in the library of Congress and they will never be destroyed, and they will never be able to block us from learning the history of the USA of the USA❤

[@Talltrees84]

I think the us should have done what the British did in their empire. Abolish slavery and compensate the former slave owners. Not as romantic as fighting a war but less costly in blood and treasure. Far less rancor after ward.

[@apriljordan9985]

There's something flaws in your thought process you want to compensate people that was low life criminals. They basically traffic human beings and committed horrendous acts of violence against the people that they held against their will. Yet you feel that they should be compensated because they can no longer commit rape,murder and other horrendous acts against people against their will. These are all crimes that in today's society you will be jailed or put to death for your actions.

[@ANDRE-sp2mi]

🙏🙏🙏Thank God my chains are gone. I am greatful for my freedom.

[@chancegoode173]

Not only was the Whitehouse built by slaves but its main architect was Benjamin Banneker who after a large fire in the Whitehouse that burned most of the plans was able to recall from memory the designs and layouts of the Whitehouse. He was never given credit for his work

[@janetdesmith8125]

There is no monument of the children of the Duty in Jamestown. Hundreds of cockney children and thousands of Irish were transported for labor to perish.

[@JohnB5304]

Demand that Monument Tangible im for it

[@janetdesmith8125]

@@JohnB5304 Thank you for your acknowledgement.

[@JohnB5304]

@@janetdesmith8125 Welcomed

[@williedaniel8885]

incredible

[@teadaniel8702]

Good work...

[@cynthiacook1646]

One last thing. They never mention the fact that many black family lines were Never Slaves, that they are descendants of parent's who had been black indentured servants, or the many times great grandmother had been a free black woman whose children were born free, even if the father was a slave, and the other reason is that their many times great grandmother was a white indentured woman and the father was black.

[@darricklong7731]

American History 🇺🇸. Not critical race theory (CRT).

[@johnnystewart83]

Lincoln, too!

[@luminouspage4359]

😔

[@lenorahill3615]

VENGEANCE IS OUR BLACK LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST HE WILL REPAY BELIEVE THAT. 🙏🏾📖♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️💯💯💯🥰🎁

[@bobsmitth497]

Constitutional REPUBLIC now👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👋😂😱

[@mexicool187]

Duh who did not know this. ™️

[@djmcnerney]

Where is your report showing that more than a quarter of US presidents in the 18th and 19th centuries opposed a private central bank?

[@bevwilliams3739]

young black children today are catching up.

[@The1stClassVillain]

All these places that slaves built need to be burned down. Why let it stand? Pain and tears went into building these places.

[@AbtMe365]

Tell us something we DON'T know....

[@queenaqueena5803]

This is so so wrong. Ona never ever wrote to Washington. She didn't learn how to read until after he died. She also didn't live in the fucking woods. Just horrible.

[@dolliehadnot4953]

Half my family is mixed

[@Jake-nk4wg]

Most of us are; friend.

[@robmartin217]

Mixed up.....

[@clarajennings6292]

All Praises👑They was taken advantage of.

[@christinneradu8399]

Bullshit, total and utter bullshit

[@christenasmalls6118]

Understanding the times that we have risen from goes a long way to understanding human nature. The history was not complicated it was what it was. The love of money is the root of all evil yesterday, today and tomorrow.

[@yolwaza8554]

ILS étaient MARTINIQUAIS GUADELOUPEEN CAYENAIS ET LES AUTRES

[@lolakepi]

Les autres: néo calédoniens et africains de Kama Katiopa

[@r.lewisblake7793]

Uh, but Haiti…….

[@tplez1659]

I know there'll be 3 extra syllables but I wish we could replace "slaves" with "enslaved people".

[@diannawilliams1843]

Trust God an not every man, Trust God Law not Trump LAW, Vote Democrats this fall an God will heal this land, who with sin cast the first stone no man live above sin ,Glory!!!!!

[@wallpaper5300]

Frances needs to return money to Hati

[@scampishfoxx3138]

DUDE WAS A TOOL

[@w584450]

At least it has been documented in USA.

[@katelane6250]

Governmental bondage

[@bristephens9642]

❤️👍

[@jackiehenry3372]

That's why I don't understand that the people are accepting DeSantis and Abbott and those like them are so willing to bring this country to it's knees.

[@clisediagonzalez5051]

Welcome to the wealth gap on the backs of those who built America just from 1619. REPARATIONS ARE IN ORDER. NOW.

[@thekeystofreedom9623]

We must ALWAYS, no matter what, remember and share our truth so history NEVER repeats itself! Children should know the chapter in our history regarding slavery, but also know that their history began with freedom in Afrika!

[@josephfigueira813]

Meverrrrr stop😱😱😱🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉

[@shalomccs]

Washington DC was dedicated to Columbia a pagan goddess known as Ashtar in Egypt and Babylon ancient religion. God is not the lord in DC Columbia is the goddess . That woman with the torch and the 7 points crown in New York is Ashtar . Hollywood studio called Columbia pictures has the same statue.

[@potatomongrel]

Many christians were complicit with slavery tho.

[@user-tj7jo5zl6b]

She is also on top of the white house no torch but a sword, Google it.

[@curtisthomas2670]

There's no ancient goddess named Columbia. Psuedohistory

[@user-tj7jo5zl6b]

@@curtisthomas2670 ishtar

[@curtisthomas2670]

@@user-tj7jo5zl6b Ishtar is Ishtar. There's no ancient goddess named Columbia petiod

[@scottiescott5006]

This is part of Critical Race Theory. What is wrong with learning all of our history?

[@benjaminely2968]

The gospel of blacks in Mexico equal the Bible of meso America of the word Chedorlaomer go/spel of history equal he Olmac dor of Genesis 14

[@aurora571000]

So how is this untold?

[@luisvelez5695]

John Adams and his son did not own slaves, they worked on their farms themselves or hired people to work for pay .

[@ms.harper7184]

DO SOMETHING! 😡

[@evaparker2303]

People's can start healing and i will help if they cut the check ✅

[@babydollbabydoll7988]

Lionel they don't believe in God heaven

[@AdamahChavah]

From the 8th president, which was George Washington all the way up the creepy Joe, cuz slavery hasn't ended. 🤦💯

[@Shesthrilled1860]

Who built this country?

[@charlesyonga333]

Obama! Fight for the rights of all people? LOL

[@ednajones2254]

Brad Raiche see my comment

[@malikxshabazz443]

Smh…

[@KaikalaMoon]

Elitists wanna go back in time. Won’t happen.

[@michellesgreen]

Put back in all schools our history is key.

[@rodneyhill9909]

I hate when black Christians are like there is no racism or n America still. God 🙏 is against all unrighteousness even if you don't act like you ancestors any more

[@dingleberry9947]

Lincoln was not an abolitionist he had slaves too

[@gumpyflyale2542]

No he did not

[@Pou1gie1]

To be exact, his wife had slaves she inherited.

[@carhac66]

@@Pou1gie1 I know some of her family had slaves while others opposed. I can find nothing that says she had slaves. please let me know where to find that she actually owned slaves? Some writers say she was much more antislavery than her husband.

[@paulbrandel5980]

@@carhac66 Good question on Mary Todd Lincoln. Her parents owned slaves, but Mary Todd Lincoln never owned slaves. Oh and as someone else mentioned about Grant. He inherited a slave, but sent him free, even though he was poor at the time!

[@paulbrandel5980]

Btw neither John Adams nor his son John Quincy Adams owned slaves. His son was an abolitionist, 30 years before Lincoln.

[@denisethorbjornsen7493]

I found out I'm related to Sally hemings

[@keithsmith4110]

🤔

[@llatimer2]

and 75% were not

[@gregwhitenerel7846]

llatimer2 only because 2/3 of them served after secession.

[@cassandraroper9208]

No, say it ain't sooooooo

[@andreyhooper3865]

What was they law still doesn't make it ⚖ justice.

[@headcougarincharge9027]

Dame is that a man or a woman??

[@gumpyflyale2542]

That is not fair Uylisses S Grant let his slaves free almost immediately after he inherited his slave from his father. Even though he technically owned one he did the right thing immediately.

[@lolakepi]

Greetings from Paris and from global Black family

[@stephensampson9208]

Tom Paine ...

[@JimmyEdwardDater-tl8jx]

👉 were 👈 is what most likely never happened or most likely shall never happened. 👉 was 👈 is what did happen. I often wish for illiterate People to stop posting Audio Visual Videos.

[@franbrochu4844]

We had The civil war its over get over it let it go

[@gwanniereynolds7799]

What ELSE is NEW ?

[@aliciamaria2730]

Not missed. Suppressed.

[@dalecole5315]

lINCOLN. said," If I free the slaves to save the country, I'll do that. If I keep the slaves in boundage to save the country, I'll do that! And for political reason he issued the "Emancipation Proclamation" BUT only south of the Mason Dixon Line! He had no control of that proclamation because he had no enforcement ability in that area! The slaves North of that were not freed! It made no difference to Lincoln if the slaves were free or not! Slavery had no bearing on the war. In fact the North was building railroads to the Pacific and had one hand behind them to fight the war with !! Why F... did the the South ever think they were going to WIN?