Let Us Never Forget the Confederacy and Slavery!

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But what about the hearts and minds of African-Americans today, most of whom unlike President Barack Obama are descendants of slaves?

Like the black high school students that I mentioned above, African-Americans today might find it interesting to learn what the pro-slavery arguments were. To be sure, I consider those arguments to be sophistical arguments. Nevertheless, it is important for us to figure out for ourselves how to respond to such arguments.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)