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The biblical story of the curse of Ham in the book of Genesis had served to explain the inferiority and enslavement of Black Africans, among Jews, Muslims and Christians for several centuries.
— Sep 15, 2026 12:58PM
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In 1800 about 25% of upcountry white families owned slaves. By 1820 that number was nearly 40%.
— Sep 17, 2026 07:01PM
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South Carolina's delegation soon made it clear that slavery's existence and protection was a non-negotiable condition of their participation in the new federal government.
— Sep 17, 2026 06:40PM
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Thomas Jefferson noted blacks possessed a "strong and disagreeable odor", produced he thought because "they secrete less by the kidneys and more by thr glands of the skin".
— Sep 16, 2026 07:33PM
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Benjamin Silliman bcame one of the fathers of American scientific education and would go on to found the American Journal of Science.
— Sep 16, 2026 05:47PM
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The first Federal Census shows that in 1790 Patrick Calhoun enslaved 31 people making him the 4th largest slaveholder in newly formed Abbeville County.
— Sep 16, 2026 04:35PM
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Calhoun's parents came over from Ireland to seek an opportunity to seek a better life with more political equality and economic opportunity but as it turned out that dream was rooted in the nightmares of enslaved Africans.
— Sep 15, 2026 02:57PM
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A radical critique of slavery and the slave trade had begun to emerge with Pennsylvania's Quaker community.
— Sep 15, 2026 02:27PM
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During just the decade that the Calhoons arrived in Pennsylvania more than 50 thousand enslaved Africans were sold in ports up and down the Atlantic sea coast with 30 thousand of them going to Charleston.
— Sep 14, 2026 09:07PM
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There was only one group of "immigrants" to North America in the 18th century that outnumbered those from Ulster, enslaved Africans.
— Sep 14, 2026 08:55PM
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When his parents Patrick and Catherine emigrated from Ireland, their last name was spelled Calhoon.
— Sep 14, 2026 08:37PM
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Sep 15, 2026 03:02PM
True, Erin, but as you know Calhoun did not defend slavery on religious grounds but ethical and economic. He thought slavery superior to capitalism in the way laborers were treated, and denounced the wage-slavery of the North. Calhoun was the Marx of the Master Class.
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