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Featured this week on TonyBrownsJournal.com … Southern Slavery -- Northern Lie? -- Pt. 2: Cotton was more than just another crop; it served as a “national currency.” Forty cents of every dollar each planter earned from selling his #cotton crop went to the North. New York was full of bankers, shippers, merchants, insurers and a multitude of others who made their living, and sometimes their fortunes, from cotton.
In the 100 years between 1700 and the end of the legal slave trade in 1808, Rhode Island monopolized the western Atlantic slave trade. Ships departing from Rhode Island departed on nearly 1,000 voyages to #Africa and returned with at least 100,000 slaves.
Rum and slaves formed an unholy alliance in Rhode Island, making Rhode Island the unquestioned leader in its participation in the slave trade, both before and after the #AmericanRevolution. Seventy percent of all colonial slave voyages began in Rhode Island. Most of the wealthy and powerful in Rhode Island profited in some way from slavery.
TBJ #2903 – Southern Slavery, Northern Lie? – Part 2: The second installation of a two-part series on the North’s hidden history as a slave region, addresses king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade, among other historic events. “Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from #Slavery,” shows us the villains – the slave traders, the racists, the apologists, and the politicians. Journalist Jenifer Frank, co-author, examines the impact of slavery in the development of the nation.
As a result, the authors, all White journalists from the Northern state of #Connecticut, argue that many Americans emerge from school believing that the #North and its citizens watched innocently as the institution of slavery took root and thrived across the Mason-Dixon line – and finally decided to go to war to hold the nation together and ultimately to end the evil institution on which the South’s economy ultimately depended.
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As a result, the authors, all White journalists from the Northern state of Connecticut, argue that many Americans, emerge from school believing that the North and its citizens watched innocently as the institution of slavery took root and thrived across the Mason-Dixon line – and finally decided to go to war to hold the nation together and ultimately to end the evil institution on which the South economy ultimately depended.
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