Harry V. Jaffa Quote

Slavery existed among the Americans largely because of the action of the crown. For the king to have been complicit in the importation of slaves into America and then to have attempted to use them in a war against their masters merited condemnation in its own right. In no way did such condemnation imply a justification of slavery itself.


p. 211 - A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln and the Coming of the Civil War (2000)


Slavery existed among the Americans largely because of the action of the crown. For the king to have been complicit in the importation of slaves into ...

Slavery existed among the Americans largely because of the action of the crown. For the king to have been complicit in the importation of slaves into ...

Slavery existed among the Americans largely because of the action of the crown. For the king to have been complicit in the importation of slaves into ...

Slavery existed among the Americans largely because of the action of the crown. For the king to have been complicit in the importation of slaves into ...