Fat hurts wrote:
Obvious Stuff wrote:
Slaves were NOT American citizens. That is, they were NOT Americans.
Surely you are not trying to rewrite history to try to make it match your narrative?
Slaves were Americans in every sense of the word. They were not citizens, but they were indeed Americans. Same goes for Native Americans.
Wrong. One of the primary definitions of “American” is a US citizen.
Slaves were not US citizens.
In that sense they were not Americans.