I just finished reading the book, Negro President, by Gary Willis. (I was mistaken about the title in the previous post.) Very interesting. It shows how fierce the debate over slavery was in the founding years of our country. It is too bad that those who supported "the right" to own and abuse people for life, won the debate.

I was looking through a book called "The Slave President" yesterday at Borders. It makes the point that T. Jefferson got to be President because of the 3/5th rule which counted the slaves toward the Souther states' electoral college votes.

It also told about a guy named Pinkerton who tried to get the New England states to leave the Union in protest of slavery around 1800.

Has anybody read "The Slave President"?