African Slavery In America
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Published March 8, 1775 in the Pennsylvania Journal and the Weekly Advertiser, this tract was Thomas Paines first published work. It is an example of how Thomas Paine who is famous primarily for his tracts in support of the American Revolution was interested in liberty no matter what the cause. Paine was one of the first abolitionist writers in America and was a founding member of the first anti-slavery society in America. He wanted to abolish slavery at the time of the American Revolution but that was not to be and would have to wait for another generation.
African Slavery in America stands as a great monument to the abolitionist movement as one of its first and most influential works.
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Required Listening for all Americans, July 13, 2006
Reviewer: cliffwhitaker
from Memphis, Tennessee
Ocasionally people attempt to defend America's slave owning past by saying that slave owners were only purchasing people that had been captured in tribal wars in Africa--placing the blame on the tribal leaders who sold them the slaves. Some people defend the slave owner's morals by saying that they did not understand that slavery was wrong and that the Christian Bible supports slavery.
Thomas Paine explodes both of these aguements in his short pamplet read here. Paine has a clear understanding about the evil of slavery 100 years before the civil war. He wrote this pamplet before even the American Revolution and founding of our county under the United States Constitution. Anybody who believes that our founding fathers were Christians should listen to this and judge our founder's faith for themselves.
Cliff
www.alwaysquestioning.blogspot.com
- Published:
2002
- LearnOutLoud.com Product ID:
A006934
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