Negative Space: slavery
- Article IV
- Article Four of the U.S. Constitution declares the responsibilities of states to their citizens, and sets up a means of admitting states to the union.
- Democrats “oppress” black voters… by killing them en masse
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Over more than a century, Democrats throughout the United States have sought to glorify the Confederacy, from the battle flag to erecting monuments to the political leaders of the Confederacy. They have killed to do it. Republicans should work to tear down those monuments to slavery.
- The last time an actor assassinated a president?
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When, asks Johnny Depp, was the last time an actor assassinated a president? The only reasonable explanation for this question is that Depp is a secret conservative.
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
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As the founding president of the Republican Party and the man who guided the United States through the incredible sacrifices of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, Abraham Lincoln deserves more than adulation. He deserves to be read.
- The Life of Stephen A. Douglas
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Where Abraham Lincoln’s conservative principles made a flawed man better, Stephen A. Douglas’s belief in the responsibility of government elites for managing lesser men made him far worse.
- Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
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Not only does slavery make life worse for slaves, it doesn’t make life better for slave-owners. And the ultimate freedom is freedom to learn.
- On The Day I Die
- “Neither of my girls has children yet. Like every mother, I always wanted them to get going and do it, you know. But to be absolutely honest, now I wish neither one of them would have children… I think she won’t bring a child into a country like this one is becoming.”
- Senator Kamala Harris calls for slavery reparations
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California Senator and 2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris calls on Democrats to support reparations to descendants of former slaves, and to descendants of Union soldiers who died freeing them.
- Slavery does not create wealth
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Frederick Douglass was born in slavery and escaped it. He tells us that slavery by its very nature destroys rather than creates wealth. That it creates a poverty not just of mind and spirit, but of the pocketbook as well.
- The Soul Felt It’s Worth
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“A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices…” What is a soul worth? For God, a soul is worth his son.
- The Tyranny of Clichés
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Jonah Goldberg takes down political clichés, such as “violence never solves anything” and “I don’t believe in labels”.
More Information
- A New Birth of Freedom• (hardcover)
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Brilliant. (Harry V. Jaffa)
- The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln• (hardcover)
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“Stern’s ‘Life of Abraham Lincoln’ is a full biography of the man and includes a detailed chronology. Stern has collected all the essential texts of Lincoln’s public life, from his first public address—a stump speech in New Salem, Illinois, in 1832 for an election he went on to lose—to his last piece of public writing, a pass to a congressman who was to visit the president the day after Lincoln went to Ford’s Theater on April 14, 1865.” (Philip Van Doren Stern)
