Championing Indian rights inadvertently opened the door to African slavery

Evidence

From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation, (p. 3)68 It was thus the black worker, as founding stone of a new economic system in the nineteenth century and for the modern world, who brought civil war in America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 928 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Advocates for indigenous welfare directly enabled the African slave trade; Slavery contradicted America’s founding ideology of equality from its birth — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 928

Related

• Slavery contradicted America’s founding ideology of equality from its birth (similarity 0.85)
• Slavery’s coexistence with proclaimed equality was America’s founding contradiction. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Advocates for indigenous welfare directly enabled the African slave trade #corroborates (0.92)
• Slavery contradicted America’s founding ideology of equality from its birth #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 928