Liberty loving conservatives are centrists unlike the far leftist totalitarian communist nutjobs. You know gets me ? Black people dont demand reparations for Blacks from the "Democratic" Party. they are the same party, they never folded and became something else. They should be bankrupted and put out of business for what they did to black people
Why should they demand reparations from only the Dems? The entire country benefited from slavery dems and repubs alike.
The Republican party was not even formed until about 10 years BEFORE the civil war. You going to punish a party born to fight slavery?
No one is getting punished. Slavery benefited the US. The US should pay what they owe. Are you being punished when you got to the store to but groceries and you give them money?
Given America inherited slavery where is that English money?
Given whites were slaves FIRST where is THEIR money?
Are you saying indentured servitude is the equivalent of slavery? Under that system people could pay off their debts and end their "contract" to work off that debt. You are not being clear on the issue of White slavery and how the Brits were responsible for it. Having funded the colony expeditions and settlements in the New World, It would seem reasonable for the royals to expect a return on that investment. Taxation without Representation was one worthy issue to complain about but it was not tantamount to chattel slavery.
According to Wiki-pedia slavery existed in the colonies from the onset but the article does not elaborate on whether those in bondage were White or Black. The article does suggest that even from the earliest days of colonization slavery was associated with Africans, NOT White people. Also, in the same narrative implies that earlier forms of "slavery" in the colonies was somehow less restrictive than Chattel Slavery. During that era Blacks and Whites seemed to intermingle freely both socially as well as sexually.
Interestingly, after the revolutionary war, you would expect the colonists to have a deeper and abiding respect for freedom. That wasn't the case. Instead, especially in the agrarian southern colonies, chattel slavery erupted with all deliberation and haste; it was the African who suffered.