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We Must Learn from the Past Because The Harbinger of War is Here
Hatred and bigotry mixed with violence are on the rise in the United States of America. To be sure, the hatred from the civil war never ended but only went underground, yet, what we see today is much more sinister.
We are seeing perhaps the last gasp of a nation that has been run for far too long by white, Christian, men who know their days of rulership are nearly over.
However, to understand where all this hatred and divisiveness is coming from, we must revisit the United States and the civil war.
There is much history that must be left out of this narrative of what led up to the civil war for the sake of time and space.
The Beginning of Slavery in the United States
Today the U.S. turns away and sends back thousands of immigrants from its borders, but it wasn’t always like this. At one time, African slaves were imported for the labor they could provide to sugar, cotton, and tobacco fields all over the eastern seaboard and the south.
The enslavement of human beings from Africa began in the 1600s and at first, all thirteen colonies adopted it as a means to become wealthy and prosperous. Never mind the fact that African men, women, and children were being torn away from their…
