This is music with humble beginnings -- roots in slavery and segregation, a society that rarely treated black Americans with the dignity and respect that they deserved.
Where there is slavery, there is stratification of society, subdivisions, frustration and tension.
While warning (presciently) that populism would breed demagoguery and tyranny, Hamilton opposed slavery (establishing the New York Manumission Society), founded a school to educate frontier Indians (now Hamilton College), launched the Bank of New York (1784), argued for a permanent defense (standing army), and extolled the virtue and productiveness of commerce, industry, and finance.
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It took thousands of years for society to settle on the fact that slavery was wrong.
Slavery, as it operated in the pervasively Christian society which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded upon racial animosity.
But rather than look at slavery through the 21st-century prism of a more enlightened society, this exhibit presents the facts, stripped of any moral or political commentary, and looks at the business of the slave trade.
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Originalism is the Constitutional doctrine that the founding document should be construed today as it must have been understand at the time it was drafted regardless of the massive changes in government, society and culture since that time, including the abolition of slavery, an issue on which the founders compromised.
In its 2006 ruling, the Florida Supreme Court noted the questionable tactics attorney Stanley Rosenblatt used to get those findings, such as repeatedly telling the inner-city Miami jury to think about how the cigarette industry divided society into groups and tried to exploit them, and making references to slavery and the unfair treatment of blacks under the law.
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Democrats, formerly the party of slavery and segregation, secured the allegiance of racial minorities by unrelenting assertions that the rest of American society is racist.
The abolition of slavery, rights for religious minorities and women, free speech, or the very idea of civil society -- all of these did not advance without Western pressure and the enormous seductive power that Western values have for Muslims.
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