Tag: indentured servitude
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Are Holidays Aimed at ANY Subset of Society, the Best Way to Unify a Society, and Do They Tell the Whole Story?
by John Bernard, ©2024 (Jun. 20, 2024) — While Juneteenth has been established to celebrate the last gasp of slavery in the USA, it is equally important to remind people that Americans didn’t originate even the concept of slavery but paid a considerable price ending it here. Those same black slavers who captured their fellow…
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The War That Destroyed the Declaration of Independence
“THE RIGHT TO SECEDE…EXISTS” by Michael Gaddy, ©2016, blogging at The Rebel Madman (Apr. 21, 2016) — One would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact the Declaration of Independence not only defines the beginnings of our country but could be called our founding charter. Thomas Jefferson most eloquently laid out the tenets of…
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The 13th Amendment Repealed In Secret
“IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2013 (Nov. 17, 2013) — “At first, man was enslaved by the gods. But he broke their chains. Then he was enslaved by the kings. But he broke their chains. He was enslaved by his birth, by his kin, by his race. But he broke their chains. …