Vol. 35, No. 23
December 9, 2019
Letters to the Editor
“Founded on Slavery”
It’s often said that America was “founded on slavery” — the implication being that whites are bad and blacks are owed something. Really? How many of those who left Europe for North America came here to establish a slavery-based society?
Then, too, shouldn’t the anti-white- men rant “founded on slavery” equally cover the plight of the white Europeans who constituted the majority of slaves in the 13 Colonies prior to 1750?
How many contemporary Americans know that England’s government kidnapped and forcibly exiled hundreds of thousands of (mostly Irish) unfortunates (some for as little as shoplifting a single item), from all four sections of the British Isles, to work and die on sugar, cotton, and tobacco plantations, here and in the Caribbean?
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