Pun not intended.
Wow. Symptom of brainwash. Absense of equanimity. Pavlovian responsiveness. Absolute righteousness. Cultish clinging to errer.
Our ‘education deprtment’ engineers are toasting their success.
There was a black slave owner just before the Civil War who was quite brutal and quite active in the slave trading business - the retail end. You could go to the school board meeting and support the parents using him as an example of how brutal slave owners were.
Turn their racial outrage around on them. (Heh-heh-heh)
The article stated that some were treated well and others were not treated well.
I guess they want the book to be dishonest and say all Southern Whites were devils and all slaves were perfect.
Notice that I said "almost".
And just for the record to those unfamiliar with Brookline...it's a nearby suburb of Boston that is an absolute cesspool of ultra rich Maoists....a cellpool that would give San Francisco,Berkeley,Madison or the Upper East Side of Manhattan a run for its money in terms of the putrid stench it emits.
The Tank Commander (Mike Dukakis) was once the Chairman of Brookline's Town Council.
Common Core have anything to do with this?
One can do a search on these two assclowns (Ames and Conquest) and find other racial whining they’ve done over the years.
There were an estimated 21,000 slaves in the US by 1700.
Haven’t read that many accounts of how they were treated.
In comparison to how many people have dogs, how often do you hear about a ‘Michael Vicks’ type story? Compassion is a common trait and has nothing to do with political or economic courage.
I have a distant relative from the 19th century who freed his slaves in his will and gave them all his land. I would suggest anyone interested in the subject of the culture of slavery read “Roll Jordan Roll” by Eugene Genovese. The paragraph from that textbook sums up Genovese’s award winning book pretty well.
In doing research on my Southern family, I believe that even though free, some salves stayed. What else did they know to make themselves employable? They had been housed and fed and I believe one even helped tend my grandmother as a baby in 1900. Lots of things were possible but may seem unlikely. Evidence and documentation, diaries and photos, tell wider and deeper stories.
Jefferson loved his slaves.
Well...one of them for certain.
Who is going to give the master a better day’s work, a mistreated slave, or one treated like family?
Of course some were treated well, who would doubt it, but the truth is not allowed to be taught in history class anymore.
Compassion - Deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.
I see nothing compassionate about owning slaves.
Like the pedophile who gives the child candy & presents after the foul deed, “good” treatment of a slave is NOT the issue, it’s not even a consideration; the evil of slavery is paramount. The very act of enslavement is the opposite of compassion - a total disregard of basic human rights.
Slavery is an act of pure selfish greed.
There are audio recordings of former slaves saying that their “owners” treated them well and that they downright LOVED them. But I guess we have to ignore actual history if it’s politically incorrect.
From my studies I’ve learned that many slave owners thought of their slaves as livestock. They were commodities that had to be cared for as they weren’t cheap.
Treating the compassionately meant less chance of rebellion, runaway or injury/death. Any of these would be costly to the owner.