Is this the story of ending slavery and creating democratic governments with human rights that you know?

Is this the story of ending slavery and creating democratic governments with human rights that you know??By: Maryellen Elizabeth Hart, with Wikipedia direct citations. March 2023

Did you know that Slavic (white) and African Black slavery was pervasive in Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia, China, South Pacific, South and Central America, Caribbean, and Africa? Did you know that “Emancipation” began in Babylon BC, but took its modern form through a majority of European and USA white "abolitionists " (freedom fighters, civil rights leaders), to create governments of freedom and equality beginning in the 1600s-1700s? Do you know anything about the Magna Carta (1200s CE), a major British document that began the legal movement of civil rights? The Magna Carta , began a four hundred year social battle that eventually led to governments providing human rights (Great Britain was the first). Democratic constitutions (USA is the first government constitution) that uphold equal human rights (England was the first, then France, and the USA’s with their Bills of Civil liberties, Civil rights). Slavery continues in all other continents today, 2023, and the United Nations declaration of human rights needs to be supported by all nations to end slavery and oppression.

My maiden name is? "Kromka", my family lineage is Slavic Irish European mix. Our ancestors were slaves, vagabonds, and gypsies who were brought to the USA as slaves or immigrated to find freedom. I have an amateur interest in celebrating USA freedom, civil rights, and the end of slavery for blacks and whites both. I think the federal holidays should be changed to ethnically neutral holidays: February 18: "Civil Rights Leaders Day" and include white abolitionists from Europe and USA; and March 31: Cesar Chavez Day to a neutral, inclusive, "Farm Labor Union" Day. My rationale is that the USA federal government declared February third Monday: "USA Presidents Day" to be racially neutral and to celebrate all USA presidents versus celebrating the Founding Fathers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and the greatest Civil Rights leader of all time, President Abraham Lincoln. USA needs to be federally supportive (and neutral) of ALL ethnicities (including all European ethnicities, and ethnicities from every continent), in all forms, in all government lawmaking (including federally provided holidays) and infrastructure!??

The USA federal constitutional moral obligation is to ensure multicultural inclusion and equal rights of all ethnicities. Juneteenth celebration of an end to slavery mandates inclusion of Slavic, and Irish slave descendant modern-day leaders to speak nationally along with Black leaders and tell their stories and share friendship in freedom. The point is to end slavery in the United States and worldwide, as well as make the USA culturally plural, as well as uphold a diverse population sharing stories of their histories and how the USA gave them a federal structure to find liberty, justice and human rights for all. The purpose of the USA is summarized in the USA Declaration of Independence: “life, liberty and the pursuits of happiness.” and in the USA Constitution with its’ amendments . The purpose of the USA is to provide the social, and legal infrastructure to support and build a strong (culturally plural) middle class.?

?USA’s freedom has not been free. One tiny commemoration of the sacrifice of the foundational heartland to keep and build a free nation is summarized in the following speech given by USA President Abraham Lincoln, afte the famous Civil War Battle: “the Battle of Gettysburg ''. On July 1–3, 1863, the removal of the fallen pro-Union soldiers (i.e.. "Northern abolitionists" "freedom fighters who fought to end slavery for Blacks (and Irish and Slavic slaves)" were moved from the Gettysburg Battlefield graves and reburied in graves at the National Cemetery at Gettysburg. The transfer of the deceased Gettysburg soldiers began on October 17, though on the day of the ceremony, interment was less than half complete [11] Wikipedia (2023). Gettysburg cemetery dedication speech by USA President Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863.? It is highly likely that Lincoln was in the prodromal period of smallpox as he delivered the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln's short speech is in history, one of the finest examples of English public oratory (Wikipedia, 2023).

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this."

"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

—Abraham Lincoln https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address The photo is one of only two confirmed photos of Lincoln[1][2][3] (center, facing camera) at Gettysburg taken about noon on November 19, 1863; Lincoln spoke some three hours later. To Lincoln's right is Ward Hill Lamon, his bodyguard (Wikipedia, 2023). Thank you, USA! Thank you, President Abraham Lincoln! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln "The Great Emancipator". The Greatest Civil Rights leader the USA has ever known.?

Internationally, the end of slavery has its roots in the Greek and Roman Empires (another story), but started slowly taking form in England, in conjunction with the Catholic Church, when England legislated documents listing human rights for all ethnicities (the Magna Carta 1200s). England in the 1600s were inspired to consider application of human rights, as inspired by the written works of France’s Renee Descartes and England’s John Locke. Contrary to popular notion, England, France and the United States started to end slavery (for all ethnicities) before any other nation(s), and setting an example for sacrificing and devoting the most money and human services (along with other European nations, Canada and the USA) to elevate human dignity and human rights than any other nations in the world. Today, the United Nations provides neutral evaluation of all nations according to their standards of Human Rights? ?and Transparency International presents their evaluation of all nations in their Corruption Perceptions Index map and data.??

A very important list of abolitionists and freedom fighters of all ethnicities in the USA. (Please read.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_abolitionists This list of freedom fighters commemorates the major abolitionists who transformed the thinking of Europe (and their settlements) Canada and the USA and are now global leaders who model equality and democratic governments.?

?“Slavic” derivation of “slave” came from the fact that for centuries, the Slavic peoples were the most readily available source of slave labor for Easterners and Westerners alike. https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/slavs-slaves-and-slavery/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery ? . In the 17th to 18th centuries, many white people in Britain, Ireland and European colonies in North America were indentured servants. Sterling Professor of History at Yale University David Brion Davis wrote [55]? From Barbados to Virginia, colonists long preferred English or Irish (and "Slavic") https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/slavs-slaves-and-slavery/ ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_slavery ? indentured servants as their main source of field labor; during most of the seventeenth century they showed few scruples about reducing their less fortunate countrymen to a status little different from chattel slaves – a degradation that was being carried out in a more extreme and far more extensive way with respect to the peasantry in contemporary Russia. The prevalence and suffering of white slaves, serfs and indentured servants in the early modern period suggests that there was nothing inevitable about limiting plantation slavery to people of African origin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery#:~:text=Slavery%20occurred%20in%20civilizations%20including,Columbian%20civilizations%20of%20the%20Americas .Between 50 and 67 percent of white immigrants to the American colonies, from the 1630s and American Revolution, had traveled under indenture.[56]?

The intent of this short story was to promote the USA federal culturally plural view of freedom, civil rights and ending slavery globally.? USA continues to lead the world in creating democratic governments that support human rights. The inclusion of mention of Slavic (white) slavery, alongside that of African Black slavery in Europe, USA, Middle East, Asia, China, South Pacific, South and Central America, Caribbean, and Africa was to unify the need to extend the USA Constituional Amendments and UN Human Rights to all ethnicities more equally. Emancipation from slavery, human rights and civil liberties were developed and financially backed by a majority of European and USA white "abolitionists" freedom fighters, civil rights leaders. The result was creation of democratic governments that provide and protect freedom and equality. Governments that offer equal human rights began early in the civilization, however, took their most effective modern form? with the Magna Carta written by the British Empire and the Catholic Church declaring human rights, which led to governmenta bills of human rights and constitutional amendments. Slavery continues in all other continents today and the United Nations declaration of human rights needs to be supported by all nations. Today, the United Nations provides neutral evaluation of all nations according to their standards of Human Rights? ?and Transparency International presents their evaluation of all nations in their Corruption Perceptions Index map and data.??