James Clyman Quotes
Captain Sutter keeps from 600-800 Indians in a perfect state of slavery.
John Sutter was an immigrant to California from Switzerland where he became a Mexican citizen. Slavery was outlawed in Mexico and its territories, yet Sutter and others maintained Indians as slaves. The Roman Catholic Missions of California also kept Indian slaves. This quotation is historically important because many people never realized that slavery was prevalent in California.
James Clyman, 1792-1881, Explorer & Settler in California, Journal Entry
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Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
The “lords of the lash” were the Southern slave owners. The “lords of the loom” were the Northern mill owners. The Southern cotton, grown by cheap slave labor was sold to the Northern mill owners at very low prices. They in turn wove the cotton into cloth and sold it throughout the nation and to foreign countries. So, although there was strong Northern anti-slavery sentiment, the wealthy and politically powerful mill owners had a vested interest in maintaining slavery in the South.
American Communist Party newspaper. National Recovery Administration. The NRA was one of the key provision of FDR’s New Deal. The American right saw the program as Communist and left wing, while the Communists distrusted it as being right wing as this quotation illustrates. See also {46137}. The Supreme Court found the program unconstitutional ending this bizarre political debate. FDR was often attacked by both ends of the political spectrum but retained the support of a large coalition in the middle.
As a result of the programs and philosophy he expounded, Leontiev joyously predicted:
The Chinese laborers were slaves by most definitions of the word as they had been brought to South Africa on a system of indentured servitude. Slavery was illegal so the term had all kinds of political and legal significance. His statement was a masterpiece of admitting that it was almost slavery but leaving some wiggle room so as not to have classified it as such. Some use this as an example of Churchill’s capacity for hypocrisy.
This is one of the major reasons that Slavery was so hard to end in the South. At the time, the dollar value of the Southern slaves was greater than the value of all the land, factories, inventory, and capital equipment of the South. Slaves were not only capital, they were the largest component of Southern capital and Southern wealth. There were numerous ideas of paying slave owners for the freedom of their slaves, and if this was done, it would have been far less expensive in money alone than the Civil War cost. However, the Southern leadership, like Fitzhugh, were totally intransient with culture and customs—indeed the Southern concept of manhood—was dependent in Slavery. The result was that no compensation was paid to slave owners and the South was impoverished as a result of its capital loss and it would not recover for 150 years.
James Clyman, also known as Jim Clyman, was a mountain man and an explorer and guide in the American Far West.
