Posted on 09/07/2017 5:19:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
That's racist!
Years ago we would say,”You are such a jerk”.
Now we say,”You are such a racist”.
Both overused and meaningless.
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“There is only one race, and that is the Human Race”
A meaningless statement, there is only one human SPECIES, there are races or there would not be racial strife. Those who claim there is only one race are confused. You may as well claim there are no differing breeds (races) of dogs, it would make as much sense. You would not say there is only one breed and that is the Dog Breed. Please don’t let anyone ever quote me that garbage again about how any male and female human can produce offspring even if they are of two different races, that is as stupid as anything I have ever read or heard. Species and race are two entirely different things.
I recently read an historical essay that claimed that 75% of human beings were slaves, serfs, or under labor bondage in 1800.
I wonder what percentage of Africans were slaves to other Africans in 1800?
That’s an awful high number, but then who knows
Not that high. Only northern Europe was slave-free in 1800.
The ratio of slaves to non-slaves in the Confederate states was never below 50%-50% as far as I know.
And the USA had more freedom than any other country in the world at that time.
Almost all poor people in 1800 USA would apprentice their children to some trade, which was usually a legal six year contract that simply “paid” the child room, board, and clothing, the same “wages” that slaves received.
USA “tenant farmers” were legally contracted to remain on the same land for some specified number of years.
Probably 80% of Russia's population were serfs.
Latin America and the Caribbean were more than 50% slaves in 1800.
The War of 1812 was fought to stop England from kidnapping US sailors and forcing them to work on English ships.
Thomas Jefferson declared war on the Barbary Pirates because they enslaved American sailors in the Mediterranean Sea.
China and India and Japan had more serfs than Russia.
Bottom Line - In 1800, about 75% of human beings lived a life that was very cruel and often short.
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