History of European Abolitionism

Francis Daniel Pastorius

Francis Daniel Pastorius (born September 26, 1651, died at age 70 in 1720) was a poet and the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia). Germantown was the first permanent German settlement in America.

In 1688 he drafted the first protest against slavery in America. Pastorius was a cosigner of the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery (cosigned by Mennonites like Pastorius), the first petition against slavery made in the English colonies.

Abolitionism is usually understood in neo-reactionary circles as an outgrown of WASP 'Calvinism' or 'low church Protestant theology.' While the Mennonites could be understood as low church Protestants, they are distinctively outside of the WASP category.

Abolitionism is a signal. The fact that it developed out of both Anglo-Saxon and German communities suggests that it was not a product of a unique cultural history of England, but was the product of a certain genetic and environmental background. Both Anglo-Saxons and Germans are broadly Teutonic, while their countries were some of the wealthiest in Europe. As religious outcasts, Quakers and Mennonites emphasized the slave morality interpretation of the Bible. They sympathized with other oppressed groups.

Ultimately, slavery was a terrible deal for America. Had the practice been abolished in 1688:

1. No more slaves would have been brought over in the slave trade. Thomas Jefferson began the halt of the slave trade in 1778 when he made it a crime for traders to bring in slaves from out of state or from overseas for sale. However, congress did not abolish the importation of Africans from overseas until 1808.

2. Whites would not have supported black families. Because of the institution of slavery, white slave owners had an incentive to breed more slaves. Therefore, they supported black families with food and housing. Without the institution of slavery, blacks would have been left out in the cold. The black birth rate would have suffered.

3. There would have been more White immigration to America. Without slavery as a source of labor, White labor would have been in greater demand, driving wages up. With more opportunities for employment, more Europeans would have been incentivized to leave their homelands for America.

The result of these three effects would have been a smaller proportion of Blacks in America. It would also not allow for the myth that Black people built America.

Because White people have a lower tendency toward sociopathy and narcissism than other races, we will always have a contingent among our people, like Quakers and Mennonites, who advocate for the poorest and sorriest among us. And, like the abolitionists, they will almost always be successful in the long run. Therefore, we should make sure that the people they advocate for are racially compatible with our own kind. Otherwise, this pathological altruism becomes a carcinogen of racial cancer.

Because we cannot exterminate the upper bell curve of altruism from our people, we must have total racial separatism.