tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post4850937567749926391..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: International Voices in the Debate on American SlaveryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-3298803418326451442010-08-23T11:06:19.816-05:002010-08-23T11:06:19.816-05:00Thanks, J. L., for saying what needed to be said, ...Thanks, J. L., for saying what needed to be said, and for saying it very well.Charles Bahnenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64625380171074293202010-08-23T01:42:18.633-05:002010-08-23T01:42:18.633-05:00Never mind—the answers are as obvious as a closed ...Never mind—the answers are as obvious as a closed mind.rhyhttp://www.tn-chaussures.eunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-50546651059977119682010-08-22T20:37:38.784-05:002010-08-22T20:37:38.784-05:00The notion that Boston isn’t one of the “more trad...The notion that Boston isn’t one of the “more traditional areas” of the U.S. of A. is quite amusing. <br /><br />Unfortunately, it offers yet more evidence, Balz, that you’re trying to dismiss ideas that threaten you by applying comforting stereotypes. <br /><br />Again, this posting offers a link to historical sources about British antislavery writing, African-American colonization of Africa, and Haiti up till 1865. <br /><br />I shudder to think what sort of person now finds those topics to be politically controversial.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-28822901338297334592010-08-22T18:30:49.084-05:002010-08-22T18:30:49.084-05:00"reflect the advice of professors from UC-Ber..."reflect the advice of professors from UC-Berkeley, Columbia University and Stanford University."<br />Well ,these schools are very known for ultra-liberal stances on just about every topic.Its only reasonable that any material springing from it's disciples be viewed with that possibility in mind.<br />Of couse your location,greater Boston has many such extremist approaches as well ,and would quite probably be more readliy accepted than publications from more traditional areas.<br />I suppose this is not really too far-fetched coming from the seat of such political miscreants as provoked the English King and Parliament.Augustenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-29979249957068482272010-08-22T17:59:12.763-05:002010-08-22T17:59:12.763-05:00I dunno, Auguste, even a stopped clock is right tw...I dunno, Auguste, even a stopped clock is right twice a day. <br /><br />The more I read of the history of slavery, the more I realize a) the West, starting with Britain, were the first- and only ones- to stop it, and b) everybody from white slave owners to African tribesmen and Arab traders had a strong financial and political interest in keeping people enslaved. <br /><br />And it wasn't just blacks and Indians being put in chains either. Irish and some Scots- Irish were enslaved and sent to America, too. Some escaped. They form my ancestry on 1/2 of my mother's side of the family. <br /><br />Slavery touches everybody, even to this day.RFullernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-13619061851445939972010-08-22T17:29:49.492-05:002010-08-22T17:29:49.492-05:00Are you unable to contemplate, Balz, that the deba...Are you unable to contemplate, Balz, that the debate over slavery in America was influenced by writers elsewhere in the world? Do you reflexively dismiss interpretations of historical events that might differ from your own as “revisionism”? Are you so resentful of intellectual work in California that you toss out schoolyard insults that have atrophied into cliché? <br /><br />Never mind—the answers are as obvious as a closed mind. This collection of historical sources clearly threatens you. So much so that you not only didn’t dare to look at it, but actually took the time to tell people that you wouldn’t do so.J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-83608107948026075502010-08-22T14:18:04.137-05:002010-08-22T14:18:04.137-05:00More revisionism from the Land of Fruits and Nuts ...More revisionism from the Land of Fruits and Nuts I suspect.Auguste Balznoreply@blogger.com