Simon Schama on America's history wars, race and the flag

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Article IV Section 2 of that document plainly states that "no slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs".
41% : In 1773, Benjamin Rush published a pamphlet asking the same question: "Where is the difference between a British Senator who attempts to enslave his fellow subjects in America, by imposing taxes upon them contrary to law and justice, and the American Patriot who reduces his African brethren to slavery contrary to justice and humanity?"

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