"Virginia" was Originally an Asset of a European Company by that Name.

The Five or Six Wars the USA Fought Against Slavery.

What is Virginia Really All About? Freedom.




Question: why didn't the Vikings, those who landed in Newfoundland, get addicted to tobacco first? Answer: the Vikings were not growing and exporting tobacco from their "colony" in Newfoundland. We have to assume that the Vikings obtained their tobacco by trading slaves and other loot. Also, the entire world was not yet addicted to tobacco when the Vikings were in Newfoundland.

Christophter Columbus would be the first European drug dealer in tobacco, who probably sold his first stash to the Spanish King and Queen (King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella).

The underlying economic basis of the American colonies, was usually the production and export by contractual colonists back to England (or other European countries) of tobacco, a taxed and regulated and very addicting drug. Also, animal fur was a big item for sale from N. America. Almost all city dwellers in the entire world had become addicted to tobacco beginning around 1492. This drug addiction, and selling animal furs, became the economic basis of the future USA.

Hemp (used for fiber and sometimes medicine also) was also, at times, required to be grown, harvested, and shipped back to England at some contracted price by the American colonists in Virginia and elsewhere. Usually, this was hemp grown for fibre. Medicinal hemp was (hashish) was usually obtained from Asia.

The Four or Five Wars the USA Fought Against Slavery:

  1. (1775-1783) The American Revolution. Ended most remaining aspects of "enslavement" of the colonists in the "New World" to the owners and management of the private companies in Europe, (and to the government of the European countries under which these corporate colonies functioned) formed to manage their holdings in the "New World"). In terms of weapons, the colonists were already armed. The war successfully ended uncivil and arbitrary military occupation, tyranny, and control of everything in the colonies; the war successfully ended rule from afar and taxation without representation, the colonists often being put subject to the natives who were successfully attacking and killing colonists, and preventing expansion of the colonies; the war ended trial by distant judicial tyrants without juries of peers, and ended a prohibition on hard assets and banks, it ended the requirement in some places to join a particular religion.

  2. (1801-1805, 1815) The Wars with the Barbary Pirates. Freed U.S. Navy and American merchant marines, traders, and passengers of American ships, captured and enslaved, held for ransom in N. Africa by the Barbary Pirates; caused the U. S. Navy to be re-formed about 11 years after the Revolution ended.

  3. (Sometime in 1808) This item is not about any wars against slavery, but does greatly pertain to the partial abolition of slavery. The current and amended U. S. Constitution of 1789 has a specific prohibition of Federal prohibition of the importation of "black slaves from Africa", who are there referred to as "such persons", until the year 1808. And I have read somewhere that the U.S. Congress in 1808 did in fact, "abolish" an aspect of slavery.

    So the international slave trade into the USA from abroad, was abolished well before the Civil War was fought, and this was done on the basis of our founding fathers who had written the U. S. constitution starting in 1787, and some of those abolitionist writers owned their own slaves when they planned the 1808 changes.

    But some illicit slaves were actually imported secretly and illegally into the USA after this ban on the international slave trade in 1808.

  4. (1812-1815) The War of 1812. Ended impressment (a form of slavery) of U. S. Navy and merchant marine sailors by the Royal Navy, and other remaining aspects of colonization and occupation.

    Some U.S territory, auch as parts of the Louisana Purchase lands, freed from occupation by foreign powers (Spanish and British). (When the Treaty of Paris ending the American Revolution was signed in 1783, the U. S. Navy had been disbanded, and was disbanded for slightly over a decade. In March 1794, the U.S. Navy was formed again by the U.S. Congress, mainly to combat the Barbary Pirates, and to bring home those Americans held as captives or slaves (for ransom) in foreign countries. But until June 1812, our new ally, the U.K., was allowed to anchor a single and solitary warship in major U. S. harbors to protect their much weaker trading partner and former colonies.)

    I know I read somewhere this bit about the "single, solitary, British warship"....

    The War of 1812 began in June 1812, less than two months after Louisiana entered the U.S. as state number 18 on April 30, 1812, (or new state number 4 after the original 14 states. (Vermont #14 plus the other 13)).

  5. (1861-1865) The Civil War. Ended remaining enslavement of African-American slaves.

  6. (1914-1918) World War I. As far as I now, World War I was not started by any parties trying to end slavery. But the Versailles Convention officially ending the war created dialogue among world leaders about all sorts of different issues, probably including abolishing slavery.

    The Ottoman Empire, who sided with the Germans in WWI, was still practicing slavery before World War I started, finally ending it after that war after modern day Turkey was formed. This process of ending slavery did NOT include "the young Turks".

    America did not join the Allies fighting World War I in order to end slavery, and did not declare war againt Austria-Hungary, and did not declare war against the Ottomans; but the U.S. fought Germany after joining the war quite late in 1917. After the war during the Versailles (treaty) Convention dealing with WWI, the idea for the League of Nations was proposed. President Wilson was an enthusiastic supporter of the League, but was mostly opposed in this respect by the U. S. Senate. President Wilson attended the Versailles Treaty proceedings, but the U.S. Senate bascially pulled the rug out from under him.

    In early Sept. 1919, Wilson desperately began an arduous speaking tour of the USA promoting the League of Nations directly to the general population, but On Sept. 25, Wilson probably suffered a nearly fatal stroke during this unsuccessful tour, and failed to sway congress to have the USA join the League; Wilson leaving office in defeat, and dying soon after.

    Later in 1926, the League of Nations adopted a treaty among members promising to end slavery: 1926 Slavery Convention.

    It is generally considered correct to say that losing World War I helped persuade Turkey and the other sucessors to the Ottoman Empire to begin abolishing slavery.

    Whatever the case, I see evidence online that British anti-slavery activists put direct pressure on the League of Nations offices in Geneva, which may have led the anti-slavery movement internally in this institution. Google.com results: (Versailles Treaty, slavery) that indicates that British anti-slavery activists, and persons working at the League offices in Geneva in the early 1920's, had investigated slavery still being practiced in Ethiopia.

    The fact that the world's most prominent government institution at that moment, the League of Nations, was actively discussing ending slavery between 1918 and 1927 indicates that slavery was probably still being practiced on earth in the early 20th century.

    Yet, other than finding out in 2024 about Ethiopian slavery and in 2023 about the Ottoman Empire slavery 1914-1927, I personally don't know a single other case that I can name. We are simply not taught these things by Hollywood, in school, or in the media.

    I thought slavery ended around 1865. Oh well.

    Thanks Wikipedia!

  7. WWII - I would rather not open this large can of "slavery worms". You can do that yourself very easily with the two search words, "WWII, slavery". Have fun.