The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Movement

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Comment by Kariem A. Haqq on November 18, 2009 at 1:50pm

Did Europeans fight for over a 100 years against Arabs, Africans and Asians to end slavery in their own countries? Do these same Arab, African and Asian decendents of today fight for freedom and do they fight against slavery? Do they even care about freedom – nationally, individually, etc.? Is celebrating freedom even important to them? What say you?

“Ironically, the anti-slavery ideology…began to develop in eighteenth century Britain, a time when the British Empire led the world in slave trading, and when the economy of most of its overseas colonies in the Western Hemisphere depended on slaves….While slavery was common to all civilizations, as well as to peoples considered uncivilized, only one civilization developed a moral revulsion against it, very late in its history – Western civilization. But the hard fact is that, for thousands of years, slavery was simply not an issue, even among the great religious thinkers or moral philosophers of civilizations around the world.

“Themselves the leading slave traders of the eighteenth century, Europeans nevertheless became, in the nineteenth century, the destroyers of slavery around the world – not just in European societies or European offshoot societies overseas, but in non-European societies as well, over the bitter opposition of Africans, Arabs, Asians, and others. Moreover, within Western civilization, the principle impetus for the abolition of slavery came first from very conservative religious activists – people who would today be called “the religious right.” “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” by Thomas Sowell, p. 115-116

Comment by Kariem A. Haqq on September 19, 2009 at 7:07pm

Within the celebration that is outlined in my book there is also, I believe, important information on how to solve many problems that confront black Americans as well as America in general. After the celebration their will be direction and steping stones to success for those who want it.

Comment by Charles Joseph on September 19, 2009 at 2:25pm

And after the celebration...what?

Comment by Kariem A. Haqq on August 18, 2009 at 9:20pm

"The statesman, who should attempt to direct people in what manner they ought to employ their capital, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single peorson, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it." Adam Smith

Comment by Kariem A. Haqq on August 2, 2009 at 4:29pm

Let's Celebrate the 13th Amendment!


"The 13th Amendment ended slavery and involuntary servitude in the U.S. and all its territories, except as punishment for duly convicted criminal acts. It made all blacks free. It also voided out Article 1V, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution referring to runaway slaves that stated 'No person held to ervice or labor in one state, under the law thereof, escaping 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 service or labor may be due'. It did not have to void out Article 1, section 9, which stated that “importation of certain persons” (pertaining to the slave trade) could be stopped after 1808; this Article was already voided with the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, effective in 1808. The 13th Amendment
was passed by the U.S. Senate April 8, 1864 by a 38 to 6 vote and by the U.S. House of Representatives January 31, 1865 by a 119 to 56 vote. President Abraham Lincoln signed a Joint Resolution February 1, 1865 submitting the proposed 13th Amendment to the states for ratification. One hundred percent of the Republican Congressmen voted for the Thirteenth Amendment, while only 23 percent of the Democrats voted for it. Despite the lack of Democratic Party support, the 13th Amendment was ratified on December 6, 1865. The 13th Amendment was recommended by Lincoln to be apart of the 1864 Republican Party Platform. The 13th Amendment actually freed the slaves in Kentucky and Delaware since all the other slaves had been freed prior to it by state legislatures or the Emancipation Proclamation and the Civil War." "The 13th Amendment Freedom Week Manual" by Kariem A. Haqq

Anyone interested in celebrating this historic event can purchase a copy of the book whicy outlines the Freedom Week or call 314-537-4169

Comment by Kariem A. Haqq on July 5, 2009 at 2:58pm

"Some people are able to do a thing when they are directed to do it, but people of that kind are not worth very much. There are people in the world who never think, who never map out anything for themselves, who have to wait to be told what to do. People of that kind are not worth anything. They really ought to pay rent for the air they breathe, for they only vitiate it." Booker T. Washington