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The California missions: A lot worse than most people realize

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s dawned on me that the California’s missions were a lot worse that most people realize—objectively a cross between the ISIS theocratic state and Nazi concentration camps. Call it California’s Gulag Archipelago. European visitors at the time were horrified by … Continue reading →

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Slavery in the US before 1619; why are we ignoring it?

Posted on August 31, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

When English pirates arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and sold 20-32 African slaves (which they had stolen from a Portuguese vessel off the coast of Spanish-controlled Veracruz, Mexico) to the settlers there, it was the first time that a … Continue reading →

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