"Teacher:the other kids were good today, they had photos of their grandfather when they were kids, Harrison(Grandson of John Tyler)Where are your photos? "Young Harrison"I'm sorry teacher when my grandfather was a kid there were No photos.
Tyler was indeed one of our mediocre presidents (to quote "The Simpsons"), but his remaining family are quite interesting. Especially since he has a grandson who's currently still alive (and, sadly, won't be with us for long, as he's now 95 going on 96).
Thank you for the correction @bekindtopeople. I really appreciate your feedback on my word usage. Hope you enjoyed the story on President Tyler's grandson.
John Tyler followed the constitution. One of the best president's. Slavery in the British Colonies in North America started because Charles II gave his brother (James II who later became King) an exclusive monopoly called the Royal African Corporation. He was a member of the Stuart Dynasty. The Stuarts believed they could ignore the anti-monopoly laws of England. The RAC got involved in the African Slave Trade. There were five African Civilizations that sold their ancestors into slavery. Any slaves they could not sell they put to death. This was genocide of Africans by Africans. The lucky ones who survived made that awful journey across the Atlantic ocean. The African Warlords were like the Stuarts. They believed they had absolute power. Now what is left out of American History is that the "First Bank of the United States" and the "Second Bank of the United States" were involved in financing slavery. Now old John Taylor he said a National Bank was unconstitutional and vetoed a bill from Congress. This was an exclusive monopoly. But Congress sent him another national bank bill and he vetoed that one as well. He vetoed an internal improvements bill saying it was not constitional. You see John Tyler believed his power was limited and he had to follow the constitution. Slavery always comes about because the government exercises unlimited powers. What if John Tyler would have been Charles II? Would he have allowed a monopoly when he vetoed monopolies. One thing you might want to do is ready history forward instead of backward. Presentism does not lead to a correct understanding of history. Slavery was foisted upon the colonies by the British. When some states had half of their population in slavery it seems easy for us to say just end it over night. This would have devastated the economy. It would have not benefitted the slaves or their owners. When the south was destroyed after the war, wealth was destroyed. The freedman and poor whites ended up as share croppers which was another form of slavery. Ten years after the Civil War, the life expectancy of a slave was less than what it was in 1859. This was from extreme poverty that black and whites endured. The south was poor for a hundred years after the war ended. In 1960, a black man in America was more likely to get an education than a white man in Great Britain. Today, the dollar is being destroyed by the Central Bank (Federal Reserve). I wish we had old John Tyler in office.
This is one of the best comments I've ever come across, very well thought out and said. I'll definitely have to borrow your thought about reading history forward instead of backward. I love that and have always agreed with you and talked about the shortcomings of presentism. It's an easy trap to fall for when trying to comprehend the past. You definitely have a great understanding of history. I hope you're a teacher!
