Henry Epps
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Henry Eppp is a retired Army Veteran, Minister o the Gospel, Certified life Coach, Social Worker, and Self-Published Author of spiritual and historical books. Henry is married to his lovely wife Vera and they have seven children, Kim, David, Eric, Chimere, Chanise, Charise and Chatise, and seventeen Grand Children.
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The Emasculation of the American Negro
African American History
The American Revolution threw the slave trade and slavery itself into crisis. In the run-up to war, Congress banned the importation of slaves as part of a broader nonimportation policy. During the War of Independence, tens of thousands of slaves escaped to British lines. Many accompanied the British out of the country when peace arrived.
Inspired by the ideals of the Revolution, most of the newly independent American states banned the slave trade. But importation resumed to South Carolina and Georgia, which had been occupied by the British during the war and lost the largest number of slaves.
The slave trade was a major source of disagreement at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. South Carolina’s delegates were determined to protect slavery, and they had a powerful impact on the final document. They originated the three-fifths clause (giving the South extra representation in Congress by counting part of its slave population) and threatened disunion if the slave trade were banned, as other states demanded.
The result was a compromise barring Congress from prohibiting the importation of slaves until 1808. Some Anti-Federalists, as opponents of ratification were called, cited the slave trade clause as a reason why the Constitution should be rejected, claiming it brought shame upon the new nation....
As slavery expanded into the Deep South, a flourishing internal slave trade replaced importation from Africa. Between 1808 and 1860, the economies of older states like Virginia came increasingly to rely on the sale of slaves to the cotton fields of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. But demand far outstripped supply, and the price of slaves rose inexorably, placing ownership outside the reach of poorer Southerner.
The American Revolution threw the slave trade and slavery itself into crisis. In the run-up to war, Congress banned the importation of slaves as part of a broader nonimportation policy. During the War of Independence, tens of thousands of slaves escaped to British lines. Many accompanied the British out of the country when peace arrived.
Inspired by the ideals of the Revolution, most of the newly independent American states banned the slave trade. But importation resumed to South Carolina and Georgia, which had been occupied by the British during the war and lost the largest number of slaves.
The slave trade was a major source of disagreement at the Constitutional Convention of 1787. South Carolina’s delegates were determined to protect slavery, and they had a powerful impact on the final document. They originated the three-fifths clause (giving the South extra representation in Congress by counting part of its slave population) and threatened disunion if the slave trade were banned, as other states demanded.
The result was a compromise barring Congress from prohibiting the importation of slaves until 1808. Some Anti-Federalists, as opponents of ratification were called, cited the slave trade clause as a reason why the Constitution should be rejected, claiming it brought shame upon the new nation....
As slavery expanded into the Deep South, a flourishing internal slave trade replaced importation from Africa. Between 1808 and 1860, the economies of older states like Virginia came increasingly to rely on the sale of slaves to the cotton fields of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. But demand far outstripped supply, and the price of slaves rose inexorably, placing ownership outside the reach of poorer Southerner.
A Concise History of the United States of America: Volume II: The History of African Americans
African American History
The terms "Transatlantic Slave Trade", "Atlantic Slave Trade" and "Slave Trade" are said by some to be deeply problematic, as they serve as euphemisms for the intense violence and mass murder inflicted on African peoples, the complete appropriation of their lands and undermining of their societies. Referred to as a "trade", this prolonged period of persecution and suffering is rendered as a commercial dilemma, rather than as a moral atrocity. With trade as the primary focus, the broader tragedy becomes consigned to a secondary point, as mere "collateral damage" of a commercial venture. Others, however, feel that avoidance of the term "trade" is apologetic act on behalf of capitalism, absolving capitalist structures of involvement in human catastrophe.
The Atlantic slave trade or trans-Atlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America. The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous Old-World immigrants in both North and South America before the late eighteenth century. The South Atlantic economic system centered on making goods and clothing to sell in Europe and increasing the numbers of African slaves brought to the New World. This was crucial to those European countries who, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were vying in creating overseas empires.
The terms "Transatlantic Slave Trade", "Atlantic Slave Trade" and "Slave Trade" are said by some to be deeply problematic, as they serve as euphemisms for the intense violence and mass murder inflicted on African peoples, the complete appropriation of their lands and undermining of their societies. Referred to as a "trade", this prolonged period of persecution and suffering is rendered as a commercial dilemma, rather than as a moral atrocity. With trade as the primary focus, the broader tragedy becomes consigned to a secondary point, as mere "collateral damage" of a commercial venture. Others, however, feel that avoidance of the term "trade" is apologetic act on behalf of capitalism, absolving capitalist structures of involvement in human catastrophe.
The Atlantic slave trade or trans-Atlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent, sold by Africans to European slave traders who then transported them to the colonies in North and South America. The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous Old-World immigrants in both North and South America before the late eighteenth century. The South Atlantic economic system centered on making goods and clothing to sell in Europe and increasing the numbers of African slaves brought to the New World. This was crucial to those European countries who, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were vying in creating overseas empires.
Home Cell Bible Study Workbook, Christian Faith, Volume 1
Christian Faith
Refocus! Wherever you are at in your life, whatever you have accomplished, whatever you did not accomplish, and every bad decision that you have made is the direct results of your thoughts, words, and actions that you have committed. Yes, you can blame bad relationships on the other person, but you are the common variable, and if you are not working in your dream job, it is because you did not want that dream job bad enough. Yes, today is the day you need to stop making excuses, and stop whining about things in the past and be grateful for what God is doing for you today. Your misery, your pain, your resentment, your suffering is your entire fault, and if you do not forgive those things in your past you will suffer in the present. So many believers claim they love God yet they are filled with pride, resentment, and unforgiveness, yet people are sitting in the church mad at God, mad at their pastors, mad at their spouses, mad at their friends, mad at their parents, mad at everyone but the right person, and that person you should be mad at is you! I watch may mother suffer all of her adult life about things that happen years ago, and she never got over them. For years she blamed other people for her pain, and her suffering but it was only her never being able to forgive and be healed by God.
Refocus, take responsibility for your life, and stop carrying the images and memories of things that are long past. Don’t you know God wants to heal you but you will not allow him, don’t you know God wants to answer your prayers, but you do not trust God nor do you believe he is God. Yes, on the outside you look like a good christian, but many people know how to “play the game.” Yes, religious people know how to play the religious game, they go to church and smile, and they stand up and act as if they are enjoying the service, but deep inside they are depressed, mean, resentful, bitter, anger, and just plain hateful. God is waiting for you to stop lying to yourself and face the real nemesis of your life and that nemesis are you. Yes even I played the blame game, and once God open my eyes to the real reality on my pain, is that I have made stupid mistakes and I have had equal responsibility in those painful poor relationships and once I realised it I fell to my knees and cried out to the Lord to forgive me, for my poor decisions and teach me unconditional love and forgiveness, and do not let me live the life my mother did, resentful, bitter and unforgiving. Beloved put away all of that pain, and allow God to forgive you, and heal you today. The best is for you if you will just believe God is God and if you trust him, he will restore you, bless you, and take you from the victim to the victor, if you just believe. Jesus is ready to take you to the throne room of love and power by faith, do it today, do it now give up all of that pain and trust God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Refocus! Wherever you are at in your life, whatever you have accomplished, whatever you did not accomplish, and every bad decision that you have made is the direct results of your thoughts, words, and actions that you have committed. Yes, you can blame bad relationships on the other person, but you are the common variable, and if you are not working in your dream job, it is because you did not want that dream job bad enough. Yes, today is the day you need to stop making excuses, and stop whining about things in the past and be grateful for what God is doing for you today. Your misery, your pain, your resentment, your suffering is your entire fault, and if you do not forgive those things in your past you will suffer in the present. So many believers claim they love God yet they are filled with pride, resentment, and unforgiveness, yet people are sitting in the church mad at God, mad at their pastors, mad at their spouses, mad at their friends, mad at their parents, mad at everyone but the right person, and that person you should be mad at is you! I watch may mother suffer all of her adult life about things that happen years ago, and she never got over them. For years she blamed other people for her pain, and her suffering but it was only her never being able to forgive and be healed by God.
Refocus, take responsibility for your life, and stop carrying the images and memories of things that are long past. Don’t you know God wants to heal you but you will not allow him, don’t you know God wants to answer your prayers, but you do not trust God nor do you believe he is God. Yes, on the outside you look like a good christian, but many people know how to “play the game.” Yes, religious people know how to play the religious game, they go to church and smile, and they stand up and act as if they are enjoying the service, but deep inside they are depressed, mean, resentful, bitter, anger, and just plain hateful. God is waiting for you to stop lying to yourself and face the real nemesis of your life and that nemesis are you. Yes even I played the blame game, and once God open my eyes to the real reality on my pain, is that I have made stupid mistakes and I have had equal responsibility in those painful poor relationships and once I realised it I fell to my knees and cried out to the Lord to forgive me, for my poor decisions and teach me unconditional love and forgiveness, and do not let me live the life my mother did, resentful, bitter and unforgiving. Beloved put away all of that pain, and allow God to forgive you, and heal you today. The best is for you if you will just believe God is God and if you trust him, he will restore you, bless you, and take you from the victim to the victor, if you just believe. Jesus is ready to take you to the throne room of love and power by faith, do it today, do it now give up all of that pain and trust God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
The Spiritual Path to the Abundant Life
Christian Faith
Refocus! Wherever you are at in your life, whatever you have accomplished, whatever you did not accomplish, and every bad decision that you have made is the direct results of your thoughts, words, and actions that you have committed. Yes, you can blame bad relationships on the other person, but you are the common variable, and if you are not working in your dream job, it is because you did not want that dream job bad enough. Yes, today is the day you need to stop making excuses, and stop whining about things in the past and be grateful for what God is doing for you today. Your misery, your pain, your resentment, your suffering is your entire fault, and if you do not forgive those things in your past you will suffer in the present. So many believers claim they love God yet they are filled with pride, resentment, and unforgiveness, yet people are sitting in the church mad at God, mad at their pastors, mad at their spouses, mad at their friends, mad at their parents, mad at everyone but the right person, and that person you should be mad at is you! I watch may mother suffer all of her adult life about things that happen years ago, and she never got over them. For years she blamed other people for her pain, and her suffering but it was only her never being able to forgive and be healed by God.
Refocus, take responsibility for your life, and stop carrying the images and memories of things that are long past. Don’t you know God wants to heal you but you will not allow him, don’t you know God wants to answer your prayers, but you do not trust God nor do you believe he is God. Yes, on the outside you look like a good christian, but many people know how to “play the game.” Yes, religious people know how to play the religious game, they go to church and smile, and they stand up and act as if they are enjoying the service, but deep inside they are depressed, mean, resentful, bitter, anger, and just plain hateful. God is waiting for you to stop lying to yourself and face the real nemesis of your life and that nemesis are you. Yes even I played the blame game, and once God open my eyes to the real reality on my pain, is that I have made stupid mistakes and I have had equal responsibility in those painful poor relationships and once I realised it I fell to my knees and cried out to the Lord to forgive me, for my poor decisions and teach me unconditional love and forgiveness, and do not let me live the life my mother did, resentful, bitter and unforgiving. Beloved put away all of that pain, and allow God to forgive you, and heal you today. The best is for you if you will just believe God is God and if you trust him, he will restore you, bless you, and take you from the victim to the victor, if you just believe. Jesus is ready to take you to the throne room of love and power by faith, do it today, do it now give up all of that pain and trust God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Refocus! Wherever you are at in your life, whatever you have accomplished, whatever you did not accomplish, and every bad decision that you have made is the direct results of your thoughts, words, and actions that you have committed. Yes, you can blame bad relationships on the other person, but you are the common variable, and if you are not working in your dream job, it is because you did not want that dream job bad enough. Yes, today is the day you need to stop making excuses, and stop whining about things in the past and be grateful for what God is doing for you today. Your misery, your pain, your resentment, your suffering is your entire fault, and if you do not forgive those things in your past you will suffer in the present. So many believers claim they love God yet they are filled with pride, resentment, and unforgiveness, yet people are sitting in the church mad at God, mad at their pastors, mad at their spouses, mad at their friends, mad at their parents, mad at everyone but the right person, and that person you should be mad at is you! I watch may mother suffer all of her adult life about things that happen years ago, and she never got over them. For years she blamed other people for her pain, and her suffering but it was only her never being able to forgive and be healed by God.
Refocus, take responsibility for your life, and stop carrying the images and memories of things that are long past. Don’t you know God wants to heal you but you will not allow him, don’t you know God wants to answer your prayers, but you do not trust God nor do you believe he is God. Yes, on the outside you look like a good christian, but many people know how to “play the game.” Yes, religious people know how to play the religious game, they go to church and smile, and they stand up and act as if they are enjoying the service, but deep inside they are depressed, mean, resentful, bitter, anger, and just plain hateful. God is waiting for you to stop lying to yourself and face the real nemesis of your life and that nemesis are you. Yes even I played the blame game, and once God open my eyes to the real reality on my pain, is that I have made stupid mistakes and I have had equal responsibility in those painful poor relationships and once I realised it I fell to my knees and cried out to the Lord to forgive me, for my poor decisions and teach me unconditional love and forgiveness, and do not let me live the life my mother did, resentful, bitter and unforgiving. Beloved put away all of that pain, and allow God to forgive you, and heal you today. The best is for you if you will just believe God is God and if you trust him, he will restore you, bless you, and take you from the victim to the victor, if you just believe. Jesus is ready to take you to the throne room of love and power by faith, do it today, do it now give up all of that pain and trust God through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
