Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 27th, 2008
Following up on the previous post.
The United States was founded as a “white man’s country.” Outside of New England, Americans didn’t believe in the political equality of the negro. Here are the dates that individual states took legislative action to disenfranchise negroes:
Virginia (1723, 1762, 1830, 1850)
Georgia (1777)
South Carolina (1716, 1790, 1810)
Delaware (1792)
Kentucky (1799)
Maryland (1801, 1810)
Ohio [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Aug 23rd, 2008
By 1855, only five states in the Union had not restricted the voting rights of free negroes: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire. In other words, New England. This and many other entries have been added to the American Racial History Timeline.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 18th, 2008
James Madison’s war message which was used to justify the War of 1812 included the following paragraph about the “Native Americans”:
… except for one paragraph, “the warfare just renewed by the savages on one of our extensive frontiers - a warfare which is known to spare neither age nor sex and to be distinguished by [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 15th, 2008
At Firezone, a discussion of the origins of American anti-racism.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Aug 11th, 2008
Lots of new entries from the Early National Period have been posted to the American Racial History Timeline. The older version is online at Firezone.
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Posted in History, Race Relations on Jul 24th, 2008
A strong background in American history is the most thorough antidote that I know of to much of the nonsense that prevails in the mainstream. This touches upon the Tanstaafl vs. Auster dispute below. In the nineteenth century, the term “Native American” used to be synonymous with “Anglo-Americans,” or English-speaking, native born whites:
Starting in 1835 [...]
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Posted in History, Race Relations, Racialism on Jul 22nd, 2008
I have restarted the American Racial History Timeline. Feel free to add contributions.
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Posted in History on Jul 20th, 2008
As part of the Monroe Doctrine, the United States pledged not to intervene in European wars or “internal concerns.” I had forgotten that.
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Posted in History, White Nationalism on Jul 19th, 2008
Another excerpt from Howe’s What Hath God Wrought:
But in his enthusiasm for American institutions, the incoming president got carried away. “And if we look to the condition of individuals what a proud spectacle does it exhibit! On whom has oppression fallen in any quarter of the Union? Who has been deprived of any right of person [...]
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Posted in History, Whiteness on Jul 18th, 2008
An excerpt on Indian removal from Daniel Walker Howe’s What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848:
White attitudes toward the Native Americans varied. Some viewed them as hostile savages needing to be removed or even exterminated. More sympathetic observers thought the Natives could and should convert to Christianity and adopt Western civilization. Whether they [...]
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