Posted on 04/08/2015 8:17:16 AM PDT by cripplecreek
I'm presuming since slaves were property, that similar to an arson fire, an insurance company would not pay until an adjuster ascertained if the death of a slave was due to an accident or mistreatment.
Charlie Smith probably was a fraud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Smith_%28centenarian%29
My reason for posting this was simply as a means of comparing slavery of then with the slavery of today.
Those who desperately seek to avoid honest discussion of the facts are acting like the overseers of old trying to keep the slaves on the plantation of today.
Interesting but there are no black slaves today in America. But there are black people trying to scam 1000 different benefits via the slavery of their ancestors AND ITS A SCAM! Same as affirmative action is a scam. Blacks are over represented in Federal Gov’t jobs and in other levels of gov’t. I am generalizing of course.
I don’t see any of them going back to Africa due to American racism. African immigrants are shocked by the generally rotten and ungrateful attitude even in educated blacks. Such as we saw in Reverend Wrights well healed congregation.
To use black parlance -— “They be tripping on themselves” Meaning having inflated egos full of gimme gimme gimme. Not all. Everyday I encounter blacks who are modest. But their leaders are all scam artist, money grubbing demagogues especially the slime balls in the Congressional black caucus and the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of America. And the Benjamin Crump law firm
The anecdotal narratives of former slaves & former masters, are a vital source for historic reference, of course. And those interested in an objective understanding will certainly look at such sources. Probably the best of these would be the recollections of the foremost ex-slave of the latter Nineteenth Century, the great Negro educator Booker T. Washington. Consider how he handled the subject of relations between the parties in his classic appeal in the 1890s: Booker T. Washington Address.
Fascinating, thanks.
An extreme example of this can be found in today's North Korea.
No it isn’t, it is like talking about slaves being treated well.
You forget that until the Americans and British and white men decided that slavery was wrong and started a crusade to end it around the world, it was normal.
The fact is though, that it has not been eradicated in places like Africa and the Middle East, and Asia.
I went to the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston last year. It documents the slave trade in Charleston and elsewhere. One poster has a timeline of when many other countries outlawed their slavery.
The thing that most stood out for me was that the NUMBER ONE characteristic among the slaves was FAMILY, and keeping it together.
The other interesting point was how few slaveowners there actually were (like a dozen or so that owned 90% of the slaves in SC, but don’t quote me) at least of the potential Simon Legree type.
“Were slaves mistreated? Sure, some were. But they were the exception, not the rule.”
They were human beings who were owned and forced to do hard labor, and their children were taken away and sold.
You have an odd understanding of mistreatment.
Today , we are all subjected to economic enslavement wherein our taxes must support the laziest and most indolent of our society.
We labor under the yoke of this unjust oppression our entire lives
That is a tragedy, and wars have been fought for less.
Yeah pretty much all labor prior to WWII was hard labor. My great grandmother plowed fields with horses and cut wheat with a scythe. She also spent weeks at a time taking care of younger sisters (and the farm) when her parents were away at Ann Arbor with the baby who had polio.
Slavery is in and of itself brutal, I see grand parelles between the slavery of past plantation owners and the slavery of the current liberal democrat plantations of today.
It is no secret that much of brutality slaves endured was at the hands of black slave drivers much like today, the democrat plantation produces power, the slaves today are given just enough to keep them obedient to the owners, but the enforcement of obedience is the job of the black slave drivers (who profit greatly) to ensure blacks remain on the plantation and those who have escaped are diminished, ridiculed, mocked and enticed to give back to the owners from whom they escaped, their only requirement is loyalty to the democrat slave owners and to remain quiet, so many submit to this delusion, yes the parallels are many, this has always been the case, the only difference is the circumstances.
In fact slavery has never been abolished it has just been more creative, I believe if you compare the slavery of yesterday and today the slavery of today is far more brutal and deadly, for instance it is not uncommon to see at the democrat plantation in Chicago an average of ten slaves brutally murdered in one week, fifty two weeks per year and that is just one plantation out of multitudes pumping out power for the democrat plantation owners, the blood flows from the slaves and is devoured by the democrat slave owners.
It should be noted their are different plantations segregated by usefulness to the democrat owners each plantation filled with varied groups according to their delusional group desires, latino’s in on one plantation, gays on another; on and on like that, none know that when owners have achieved their wicked goals, they will all be destroyed in one bloody massacre cut down as chaff to be fodder for the fire.
All of the above is just my opinion based on common knowledge of the past and observation of the present, one may of course conclude much differently, It appears to me all Americans will be (if something significant does not happen soon) slaves to the Progressive Liberal Democrat Communist Party Plantation.
Life sucks to be a slave but life is great today for their great great grandchildren. Who use America's past slavery as a way to guilt trip whites into giving them free money, affirmative action and various welfare bennies
The slaves of today don’t appear to be learning any useful skills aside from how to scam the system for more free stuff.
On the other hand, I know some African immigrants who came here with nothing and have built lives to be proud of.
They’re called the Slave Narratives and there are hundreds of individual interviews done with former slaves as part of the WPA in the 1930’s. I’ve read a bunch of them, nowhere near all, and they’re fascinating. And yes, in many cases the former slaves speak fondly of their former owners and recount many small acts of kindness that were shown to them. Others talk of more strict owners, and a very small minority recall owners who were downright cruel.
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