Browsing the blog archives for March, 2011
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Note these additional examples of the anti-slavery positions resolutely embraced by several influential American figures: JOHN WITHERSPOON (1723-1794)… Founding Father… Signatory Declaration of Independence & Articles of Confederation… President of Princeton University [6th] (1768-1794)… Delegate to Continental Congress [NJ] (1776-1782) “[I]t is certainly unlawful to make inroads upon others [...]
compiled & edited by Daniel Hagadorn Moreover, until the Revolutionary Era, no serious effort had EVER been undertaken to dismantle the vile institution of slavery. Consider the following: JOHN JAY (1745-1829)… Founding Father… President of Continental Congress (1778-1779)… U.S. Ambassador to Spain (1779-1782)… Co-author of the Federalist Papers (1788)… Chief Justice U.S. Supreme Court [1st] [...]
