RJA #10b: Argument

Research claim: The history of the ongoing active African resistance to slavery remains, in large part, suppressed and or censored in the discourse on American history.
Thesis: The truth of ongoing African resistance to the institution of slavery, such as that of the so-called Seminole Wars, is crucial not only to discourse concerning the Civil War, but vital to the lexicon of American history.
Ethos: It is illogical to assume that the kidnapped Africans were content in the captivity and incapable of organizing and strategizing their won liberation. The Declaration of Independence declares that all humans, of which the African were most certainly, were “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.“
Pathos: No human should ever be subjected to the torture slavery posed for the African captives. America was founded on the pursuit of life and liberty but built upon the captivity of kidnapped human.
Logos: Much of the rhetoric about the Civil War relegates the entire affair to conflict between the southern states and the northern states over the issue of slavery. It would seem natural that the humans over whom the conflict surrounded would have had a vested interest in actively strategizing their own liberation.

Reason 1: The Black Seminoles were instrumental in garnering not only theirs, but freedom for all African captives.
Reason 2: Historians of the Civil War period routinely omitted facts that showed Anglo-Americans at a disadvantage to Africans. This omission of facts has bearings upon social interactions.
Reason 3: This history is important to clarifying relationships between African-American and the dominant culture. Race is the big pink elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. Dialogue begins with acknowledgment of t he issues.