{"id":78883,"date":"2021-07-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78883"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T15:37:08","slug":"1618","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=78883","title":{"rendered":"The 1788 Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, just how wrapped up was the American Revolution and the founding of the American Republic wrapped around slavery? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quite the opposite:  while all of the 13 colonies had originally allowed slavery, it had been abolished in most of the states by the revolution&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/anti-slavery-revolution-1-of-3\/id1474881598?i=1000527971388&#038;theme=light\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and was recognized by most of the founding fathers as explicitly contrary to all of the Revolution&#8217;s interests <em>except <\/em>self-preservation (dividing in the face of the British would have been national suicide)&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/anti-slavery-declaration-2-of-3\/id1474881598?i=1000528717221&#038;theme=light\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;and abolition was a driving force behind the framing of the Constitution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay *; encrypted-media *; fullscreen *\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-anti-slavery-constitution-3-of-3\/id1474881598?i=1000529448438&#038;theme=light\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in case you need some ammo for your next spar with your next &#8220;progressive&#8221; relative. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, just how wrapped up was the American Revolution and the founding of the American Republic wrapped around slavery? Not. Quite the opposite: while all of the 13 colonies had originally allowed slavery, it had been abolished in most of the states by the revolution&#8230; &#8230;and was recognized by most of the founding fathers as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-its-making"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78962,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78883\/revisions\/78962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}