I had always wondered how, why, this peculiarly American political compromise between slave states and free states that was framed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, had become undone, had became tilted toward the proslavery forces, not towards the "liberty and justice for all" democracy, so falsely and so generally historically claimed.
Perhaps, in "a political compromise brokered by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson," that "the capital was moving to Philadelphia," I may find a semblance of answers.
The above quote is from NEVER CAUGHT, THE WASHINGTON'S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THEIR RUNAWAY SLAVE "ONA JUDGE" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017), p. 50.
"New Yorkers bid farewell to their President and to their claim on the nation's capital. Following the American Revolution, the location of the seat of government was a point of great debate, with thirty or more cities competing for the right to house the new center of power...
"Yet behind closed doors, some members of Congress were holding quiet conversations and private dinners, where they developed plans to create a 'Federal City' that was separate and apart from any other city or state government. Southerners like James Madison led the charge in what would become a decade-long drama around the location of the new seat of power. Virginians, in particular George Washington, were insistent that the permanent location of the nation's capital reside within a Southern orbit....
"It was Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson who brokered the famed compromise between Southern and Northern coalitions in which the federal government assumed all state debt related to the American Revolution in exchange for landing a permanent nation's capital along the Potomac River. The construction of the capital would take close to a decade, and Philadelphia's consolation prize was the temporary relocation of the capital for ten years starting in 1790."
P. 51-52.
Saturday, October 21, 2017
NEVER CAUGHT, excerpt
I had always wondered how, why, this peculiarly American political compromise between slave states and free states that was framed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, had become undone, had became tilted toward the proslavery forces, not towards the "liberty and justice for all" democracy, so falsely and so generally historically claimed.
Perhaps, in "a political compromise brokered by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson," that "the capital was moving to Philadelphia," I may find a semblance of answers.
The above quote is from NEVER CAUGHT, THE WASHINGTON'S RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF THEIR RUNAWAY SLAVE "ONA JUDGE" by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (2017), p. 50.
"New Yorkers bid farewell to their President and to their claim on the nation's capital. Following the American Revolution, the location of the seat of government was a point of great debate, with thirty or more cities competing for the right to house the new center of power...
"Yet behind closed doors, some members of Congress were holding quiet conversations and private dinners, where they developed plans to create a 'Federal City' that was separate and apart from any other city or state government. Southerners like James Madison led the charge in what would become a decade-long drama around the location of the new seat of power. Virginians, in particular George Washington, were insistent that the permanent location of the nation's capital reside within a Southern orbit....
"It was Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson who brokered the famed compromise between Southern and Northern coalitions in which the federal government assumed all state debt related to the American Revolution in exchange for landing a permanent nation's capital along the Potomac River. The construction of the capital would take close to a decade, and Philadelphia's consolation prize was the temporary relocation of the capital for ten years starting in 1790."
P. 51-52.