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"?

"In 1857 a revival swept over this country in the east and on to the western cities, clear over to the Pacific coast. It was God calling the nation to Himself. Half a million people united with the church at that time. Then war broke out. We were baptized with the Holy Spirit in 1857, and in 1861 we were baptized in blood. It was a call of mercy preceding judgment." --D.L. Moody

Abraham Lincoln said: "I have been only an instrument. The logic and moral power of (William Lloyd) Garrison and the antislavery people of the country and the Army, have done it all."

Here is an interesting experiment. Assume a different perspective when you read and/or think about American history. For example, think about the history of slavery as if you were an American slave yourself. Or pretend you were an American Indian living freely when the white settlers arrived. Or pretend you are looking at things through God's eyes.

It is not easy to do this, but even a small attempt at it will give you amazing insight into hidden history! Try writing a paragraph as if you were in those roles and see how your own writing comes out!