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• W36249434 abstract "Although ended in United States more than century ago, its legacy continues to be disputed among scholars and to underlie contemporary debates about public policy. The reason for this is that is considered classic expression of American racism, and its effects are still viewed as central to problems faced by blacks in United States. Slavery seems to be wound that never healed--the moral core of oppression story so fundamental to black identity today. No wonder that bitterness generated by recollections of has turned generation of black scholars and activists against nation's Founding--against identification with America itself. didn't mean it when he wrote that all men are created equal, writes historian john Hope Franklin. We've never meant it. The truth is that we're bigoted people and always have been. We think every other country is trying to copy us now, and if they are, God help world. He argues that, by betraying ideals of freedom, the Founding Fathers set stage for every succeeding generation of Americans to apologize, compromise, and temporize on those principles. In Black Odyssey, Nathan Huggins condemns American Framers for establishing, not freedom, but a model totalitarian society. Huggins condemns Framers for refusing to mention words or slavery in Constitution in an effort to sanitize their new creation and avoid the deforming mirror of truth. The Founding, he concludes, was simply a bad way to start. Speaking on 200th anniversary of Constitution, former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to find wisdom, foresight, and sense of justice exhibited by Framers particularly profound. The government they devised was defective from start. Marshall urged that instead of jingoistic celebration, Americans should seek an understanding of Constitution's defects, its immoral project to trade moral principles for self-interest. Is it true that American Founding was corrupted by base and unwarranted compromise with slavery, and that Framers of Constitution, many of whom were slaveowners, revealed themselves as racist hypocrites? Must we agree with abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, who charged that American Founding was covenant with death, an agreement with hell, and refuge of lies, an appraisal endorsed by great black leader Frederick Douglass? If these charges are true, then America is indeed ill-founded, blacks are right to think of themselves as alienated in America, and hope for racial amity constructed upon liberal democratic vision of Founding becomes chimera. On other hand, if Framers are exonerated of charges of racist hypocrisy, then their blueprint for America might provide viable foundation for helping blacks and whites to tr-anscend pathology of race. Indeed, it is vision of Thomas Jefferson and Framers that provides only secure basis for multiracial society, in which citizens are united not by blood or lineage, but by virtue of their equality. OF HUMAN BONDAGE Notwithstanding vilification of American history by many commentators, institution of was neither peculiarly American nor peculiarly white. Not only was extensively practiced in ancient world--Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India, and elsewhere--but in modern era Africans and American Indians practiced slavery, Arabs actively promoted slave trade, and thousands of blacks in America were slaveowners. The practice of whites owning slaves developed in United States in line with universal practices, including prevailing Western institutions that held millions of whites in various degrees of unfreedom. In this context, it is not hard to understand Charles Pinckney's amazement, during debates over American Founding, over questions about morality of slavery. …" @default.
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• W36249434 title "We the Slaveowners: In Jefferson's America, Were Some Men Not Created Equal?" @default.
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