england and other parts of the colonies so that the british law was getting in waif that pursuit of freedom which was fundamental purple of the american revolution. freedom of conscience, freedom of political self-identity, the new world was seeking a way to emancipate itself from england and not seeking further ways to enslave or to mistreat people of african origin. you mention a moment ago that this is in our schools. i should add that what happened was that when the new york times launched 1619 project, it partnered with the pulitzer center, and the pulitzer center on last page of the new york times says bombshell release of this report declared that it has already signed up major school districts and teachers arntiond the
founding ideas of who we are and everything else that followed. it s a matter of some interest to me is a scholar that the event has described didn t really take place what that happened was jamestown, virginia did not recognize slavery so it took these captives and treated them as indentured servants not maybe the best place to be in your life the prime of life. but in denture servant only serves few years of servitude and then it is set free and we know historically that that s exactly what happened to these captives. they were set free. they were not reduced to a lifetime of slavery if what called their position of indenture servitude slavery was certainly of a very mild form and nothing like the slavery that we normally think of when we re thinking of the slavery of the precivil war south.
theodore hertzle wrote his classic jewish state in 1896. that he was decades before adolf hitler s rise to power and the murder of 6 million jews by the nazis. when i will the unspeakable horror of the holocaust is what sparked to create israel, the jewish state, for centuries and centuries, jews across the world, particularly in europe, live in the a state of fear. the various governments that had them as subjects could turn on them at any point, and even if
that was, of course, decades before adolf hitler s rise to power and the murder of 6 million jews by the nazis. while the unspeakable horror of the holocaust was it finally convinced the international community to create israel 1948, the jewish state, persecution, violence, and fear of diaspora jews long predated hitler s rise. for centuries and centuries, jews across the world, particularly in europe, lived in a luminous state of fear. the government said had the most subjects could turn on them at any point, and even if the state did not put them in the crosshairs, often it was their neighbors who did. the knock of the door, the mob with a list of names, the programs whipped up by demagogues, marauding the street. stays where the elemental constant threats that stalked jewish life on this planet for centuries. it is what brought so many jews to our shores here in the u.s..
direction and that the abolition movement that already had gained further adherence in new england and other parts of the colonies so that the imposition of british law was now getting in the way of that pursuit of freedom which was fundamental purpose of the american revolution, freedom of conscience, freedom of political self-identity, the new world was seeking a way to emancipate itself from england and was not seeking to further enslave or to mistreat people of african origin. you mentioned one moment ago that this was in our schools and i should add that what happened was that when the new york times launched 1619 project it partnered with the pulitzer center and the pulitzer center on the left page of the new york times saw the bombshell release of the support declared that it had already signed up