Sunday, July 8, 2018
ABRAHAM LINCOLN EARL OF DUNMORE REVOLUTIONARY COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY BOTH EMANCIPATORS
Dylan Matthews...slavery and revolution...
"...The revolutionaries understood this. Indeed, a desire to preserve slavery helped fuel Southern support for the war. In 1775, after the war had begun in Massachusetts, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of Virginia, offered the slaves of rebels freedom if they came and fought for the British cause. Eric Herschthal, a PhD student in history at Columbia, notes that the proclamation united white Virginians behind the rebel effort. He quotes Philip Fithian, who was traveling through Virginia when the proclamation was made, saying, "The Inhabitants of this Colony are deeply alarmed at this infernal Scheme. It seems to quicken all in Revolution to overpower him at any Risk." Anger at Dunmore's emancipation ran so deep that Thomas Jefferson included it as a grievance in a draft of the Declaration of Independence. That's right: the declaration could've included "they're conscripting our slaves" as a reason for independence." DM
The very last thing the colonial rebel founding fathers, especially Jefferson, wanted was for their slaves to be queered by the British....
There has been a lot of bullshit about the Declaration etc holding these truths to be self evident, originalist, sola scriptura.
Don't believe a word of it.
Lincoln didn't, either. Look at the debates with Douglas....
"...The revolutionaries understood this. Indeed, a desire to preserve slavery helped fuel Southern support for the war. In 1775, after the war had begun in Massachusetts, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of Virginia, offered the slaves of rebels freedom if they came and fought for the British cause. Eric Herschthal, a PhD student in history at Columbia, notes that the proclamation united white Virginians behind the rebel effort. He quotes Philip Fithian, who was traveling through Virginia when the proclamation was made, saying, "The Inhabitants of this Colony are deeply alarmed at this infernal Scheme. It seems to quicken all in Revolution to overpower him at any Risk." Anger at Dunmore's emancipation ran so deep that Thomas Jefferson included it as a grievance in a draft of the Declaration of Independence. That's right: the declaration could've included "they're conscripting our slaves" as a reason for independence." DM
The very last thing the colonial rebel founding fathers, especially Jefferson, wanted was for their slaves to be queered by the British....
There has been a lot of bullshit about the Declaration etc holding these truths to be self evident, originalist, sola scriptura.
Don't believe a word of it.
Lincoln didn't, either. Look at the debates with Douglas....
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