{"id":137,"date":"2016-06-18T19:54:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2016-06-18T19:54:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T19:54:33","slug":"background-for-abolition-acre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/background-for-abolition-acre\/","title":{"rendered":"Background for Abolition Acre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CONTRADICTION\u00a0 COUNTRY\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>U<\/strong>nder<strong>S<\/strong>tanding<strong>A<\/strong>merica<\/p>\n<p>The truth about the founding of the Nation is that we were born in a horrible contradiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Declaration of Independence: <\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our Constitution:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>\u201cRepresentatives shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, <em>three-fifths of all other persons<\/em>\u2026\u201d (Article I, section 2)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 proper to admit, <em>shall not be prohibited prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight\u2026\u2026.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 (Article I, section 9)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo person held to service of labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall be discharged from such service, but <em>shall be delivered up on claim\u00a0 of the party to whom such service may be due\u2026<\/em>\u2026\u201dArticle IV, Section 2)<\/p>\n<p>THE CONTRADICTION:\u00a0 <strong><em>All<\/em><\/strong> men are equal\u2026.<strong><em>EXCEPT<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 THOSE HELD IN SLAVERY<\/p>\n<p>The determination of representatives empowered slaveholding States. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The slaves were declared to be less than fully human! The system of bringing slaves into the country was secured for at least 20 years! The slaves who escape are to be returned to the slave \u201cowners\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>This contradiction is a part of the founding <em>political life. <\/em>It cannot be denied by any review of the facts of our beginning. Given such a foundational start helps us understand the contradictions which we see daily as we note acts which defy our stated beliefs.\u00a0 This <em>political contradiction<\/em> is rooted in the actions of our founders, who clearly \u00a0acted in contradiction. To deny that is simply to be wrong!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONTRADICTION\u00a0 COUNTRY\u00a0 \u00a0UnderStandingAmerica The truth about the founding of the Nation is that we were born in a horrible contradiction. Our Declaration of Independence: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/background-for-abolition-acre\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Background for Abolition Acre<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abolitionacre.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}