What Our Presidents Believed
Eleven of our first 13 Presidents owned slaves and Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding and Harry Truman were once members of the KKK. These Presidents believed that all white men were created equal and that people of African descent were not entitled to the rights afforded to whites. All of these men judged by today's standards, would be considered white supremacists based on their then performance.
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Permalink Reply by Keith Broaders on
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All would be freed by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 (she chose to free them at that time even though the proclamation did not apply to her state of Missouri). Grant personally owned one slave, William Jones, given to him in 1857 by his father-in-law and manumitted by Grant on March 29, 1859.
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One historian noted that Lee separated slave families, something that prominent slave-holding families in Virginia such as Washington and Custis did not do. In 1862, Lee freed the slaves that his wife inherited, but that was in accordance with his father-in-law's will.
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Permalink Reply by Morton Thomson Jr. on
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed no one. Instead, no one is free. Knowledge is the best deterrent to slavery of any kind. We now live in a time of slavery of the mind.
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This from The Chronicle of Akakor, the written history of the earliest origin known, approx. 10,481 B.C.
"This is the Story. The history of the Chosen Servants. In the beginning all was chaos. Men lived like animals, without reason, and without knowledge, without laws and without tilling the soil, without clothing themselves or even covering their nakedness. They knew nothing of the secrets of nature. They lived in groups of two or three, as accident had brought them together, in caves or rock crevices. They walked on all fours until the Gods arrived: They brought the light."
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