Check out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rocked
Check out this short king from the 1700's. He would put a bladder filled with red juice in a bible, stab it, spray the "blood" on slavers and say they'd killed the bible. Dude rocked
Overlooked by historians, Benjamin Lay was one of the nation's first radicals to argue for an end to slavery
We can have little a christianity, as a treat
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Love learning that 'it was a different time' has and was always a deflection of how awful people have been throughout history and that I can and should apply lessons learned in this day and age to the past.
If I manage to have children, I'm going to be a lib teachers nightmare by giving my kids ammo like this, showing that while uncommon, it wasn't unheard of for decent people throughout history to call out the bullshit.
Multiple founding fathers were abolitionists. IIRC Ben Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Payne were the main advocates against slavery in the constitution (some were even against the 3/5ths compromise).
The debate over the morality stretches back to ancient Greece. Spartans and Athenians would argue over it. We've always known it was wrong, but some people want to own slaves anyway and have to bend over backwards to justify it.
That saying has struck me as silly for a long time since there was a very large and obvious group that wasn't a fan of slavery back then - The slaves
Yep. Always taught this or that was the norm and yada yada yada. Like I get that, but we were never taught anything like this, perhaps out of ignorance because whatever they were taught excluded numerous progressive figures, or imo, didn't want to teach about those who challenge the status quo, unless they're sufficiently whitewashed and defanged.