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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message: HTML is enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] >"First of Two: it should also be noted that those people who came up with "all men equal" also had no problem not abolishing slavery right then and there. And, er, Thomas Jefferson was a slave owner, no? I think what they meant was all white men are created equal, and we in more modern times have expanded that." If you'd ever read Jefferson's writings, or studied the history of the Constitution and Declaration, you'd know that Jefferson very much wanted to end slavery, and attempted to add anti-slavery clauses to both documents, but was voted down because the Southern states wouldn't go along with it. Jefferson was worried about the very thing that DID happen after the Civil War happening: Thousands upon thousands of just-freed slaves, uneducated, untrained for anything except manual labor, and unwanted, devolving into a second-class citizenry. He wanted slaves to be educated and trained in useful skills before they were freed, and hoped that the South would follow that example. Unfortunately, they didn't, and even clamped down on those who DID try to educate and train the slaves, so when the Civil War finally came and the slaves were freed, nothing had changed and they were ill-adapted to take a place as equals, and so the power base in the South managed to oppress them for another hundred years. But certainly early black leaders (and some less-popular of today's black leaders) always knew that the true key to success was education, training, and hard work. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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