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Title: New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on August 18, 2017, 11:40:40 am

New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Daily Caller, Aug 17, 2017, Thomas Phippen

New York, both the city and the state, is named after the house of York and particularly for James Stuart, then Duke of York, one of the most successful slavers in colonial American history.

President Donald Trump wondered aloud during a raucous press conference Tuesday whether the impulse to tear down memorials to leaders of the Confederacy like Gen. Robert E. Lee would slip into calls to remove monuments to America’s founders, like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, both of whom owned slaves.

The memory of slavery is enshrined in the name New York as well as the name of the nation’s capitol, even though both cities have vastly changed from their christening.

James Stuart conquered the settlements between the Delaware and the Connecticut rivers from the Dutch in 1664, and the name of the principal port, New Amsterdam, was promptly changed to honor the new master. James’ brother, King Charles II of England, gave the territory to the duke in exchange for four beaver pelts annually.

The Duke of York, who later became King James I of England (and James VII of Scotland), created Britain’s greatest slave empire known as the Royal African Company, which transported between 90,000 and 100,000 African slaves to the Caribbean and American colonies between 1672 and 1689.


More:  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/17/new-york-is-named-after-a-horrendous-slave-trader/

Title: Re: New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Post by: Applewood on August 18, 2017, 11:58:37 am

So then maybe we should destroy both the city and state of New York too? 

This nonsense is getting out of hand.

Title: Re: New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Post by: jmyrlefuller on August 18, 2017, 12:05:56 pm

The governor could always just rename it Cuomoland.

Title: Re: New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on August 18, 2017, 12:32:11 pm

Quote from: Applewood on August 18, 2017, 11:58:37 am

So then maybe we should destroy both the city and state of New York too? 

This nonsense is getting out of hand.

Reductio ad absurdum.

Title: Re: New York Is Named After A Horrendous Slave Trader
Post by: Just_Victor on August 18, 2017, 12:34:31 pm

Quote from: Applewood on August 18, 2017, 11:58:37 am

So then maybe we should destroy both the city and state of New York too? 

This nonsense is getting out of hand.

The nonsense has been out of hand for quite some time now.