Mangala quote Think about slavery! African Americans were enslaved for 100's of years
Mangala quote I'm an American, and I appreciate being an American every day, but I do not appreciate being a part of the American history of making slaves and virtual slaves in order to maintain freedom for some.
O'Rights QUOTE I want to live in the America of Washington and Jefferson that promoted good will and honest commerce toward all countries, and hatred toward none -- one in which the politicians don't blame their own
failures on faceless foreigners.
Mangala quote Both had slaves and could not care less about any other countries' people. End of story.
That's right Mangala, I don't duck the hard issues.
Slavery was about as clear a violation of libertarian principles as could be imagined, so it’s no surprise that many leading abolitionists were libertarians. They staked their argument on the natural and imprescriptible rights of life, liberty, and property, noting in particular that each person owns himself-so the slaveholder is, as this Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Convention (1833) argues, a “man-stealer.” Abolitionism was not only a crusade for individual rights, it was an important element of the long historical struggle to extend dignity to more individuals.
You are right to raise the slavery issue. It hath caused me to think more deeply about individual liberty and our government.