The State of Florida has become the sixth to apologize for slavery — an issue about which I’m long-since on record:
Five other U.S. states have apologized for slavery since last year, including Alabama, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina and Virginia.
Interesting that only one of the six states that have managed to step forward on this issue is in the North — New Jersey — which passed its own resolution in January of this year.
It’s absolutely appropriate that New Jersey took the lead up north, btw. As the last slave state in the region, NJ enabled slave owners in nearby northern states (i.e. New York) to cash in their human capital before emancipation took hold. In spite of attempts by those neighboring states to criminalize the practice, thousands of northern slaves who would have otherwise been emancipated were illegally sold south through the NJ pipeline.
So… six. I wonder which state will be next?
It won’t be Georgia. The idiots in Atlanta aren’t interested in anything but arguing with each other, bragging over who wants the biggest tax cut, and de-funding education and healthcare.
Eventually, Patrick, I think even Georgia will get there… LOL! Probably not next, though, as you say.
I actually thought New York would have made it by now. They were all set to announce legislation for an apology last summer, but evidently things fell apart at the very last moment. I suspect the problem there (in NY) was that they were also trying to move a reparations bill through. (Now THERE’S something that isn’t going to get any traction.)
It time that Italy, as heir to Rome, appologized to France for the conquest by Julius Ceasar of Gaul, taking French slaves in the process.