[MD] Biological Quality & Social Conservatism

[Heather Perella]

     [SA previously]
> 'Why was slavery allowed even during the founding
years of the U.S. > in other words when the
constitution was set-up?'

     [Platt] 
> Since the beginning of time, slavery has been an
> accepted social pattern.

     Yeah, sometime long, long ago...

     [Platt]
> In some places, notably Africa, I understand it is
> still practiced. It was
> with the enlightenment and it's emphasis on
> individual worth and direct
> access to God (the Reformation) that attitudes
> towards slavery in thw West
> began to change. 

     I don't know about how it changed, in this light.
 By the way, when was the enlightenment?  I asked,
more directly, "Why did slavery persist in the
founding years of the U.S.?"  And War didn't change
the minds of many, before the Civil War, for many
changed without war.  That's what I brought up here
below previously.


     [SA previously]
> How did the U.S. get to 'Ok, we'll allow slavery' to
'Slavery must end
> even if it means war'?  I am not historically adept
for
> these time periods, but I do know that voices,
> abolitionist voices, out of New England, etc... got
louder and
> > louder.  This hit the national scene.  Washington,
> > D.C. soon became stronger and stronger in
> opposition against it.

    [Platt] 
> I would attribute much of the change to religious
> leaders just as they
> played a key role in the later civil rights changes
> of the 60's. Those
> who now find it fashionable to trash religion would
> do well to recall
> not only its negative, but also its positive role in
> societal change. 

     I'm not too sure about this explanation.  But
your conclusion does match my conclusion that war does
not need to be the trigger for change.  The Civil War
began with voices.  World War One began with voices. 
Voices that differed so much that War and thus,
confusion reined.  Is war unavoidable?  I don't know.


     [Platt]
> Welcome back!

     Thank You!


 
woods,
SA


       
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