Posted on 09/05/2019 12:12:35 PM PDT by Perseverando
A sign commemorating the arrival of the first Africans is displayed at
Chesapeake Bay, in Hampton, Va., August 24, 2019. (Michael A. McCoy/Reuters)
It didnt begin or end in the United States. The same people most obsessed with slavery seem to have little interest in the full scope of its history.
There has been an effort for decades now although with new momentum lately, as exemplified by the New York Times 1619 project to identify the United States and its founding with slavery.
To the extent that this campaign excavates uncomfortable truths about our history and underlines the central role of African Americans in our nation, it is welcome. But it is often intended to undermine the legitimacy of America itself by effacing what makes it distinctive and good.
Yes, slavery and racial prejudice were our great original sins. It would have been better if we had, like the British, been leaders against the slave trade and for abolition (the representation of slaveholders in Congress and the rise of King Cotton forestalled this). But we didnt invent slavery, even in its race-based form.
Slavery didnt make us unique, which is obvious if we consider its history in a little broader context. Critics of the American Founding dont like to do this because it weakens their case and quickly brings them up against politically inconvenient facts that theyd prefer to pass over in silence.
Lets dwell, then, on a few things they dont tell us about slavery. None of these are secrets or are hard to find, but they are usually left out or minimized, since they dont involve self-criticism and, worse, they entail a critical look at societies or cultures that the Left tends to favor vis-à-vis the West.
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I saw Henry Louis Gates on TV once talking about Esteban in glowing terms as if he had been the leader of the expedition.
Interesting side note. Mexico declared slavery illegal in 1829, yet 45 years later, slavers were still going North to raid Indian villages in the US for captives to sell in Mexico.
that
blacks owned other blacks in america
indians owned blacks
Black in africa captured black to trade to white men
arabs enslaved far move blacks than ‘whitemen’ ever did
slavery still exists today in certain parts of the world
democrats were the ones who supported slavery and still think of blacks as being owned by them
Some of the largest slaveholders in the South were free blacks.
bkmk
Slavery in America, if one objectively looks at it from a historical perspective, is the BEST thing that has ever happened to the black race. It placed them at the table of the modern world and has given their descendants the opportunity to achieve equal status with the other races. How, when, and why this happened as it did no longer matters. We all have to live in TODAY’S world and focusing on that is how one stays afloat. That some choose to dwell on the past is their problem and is totally non productive to society as a whole.
Thank you.
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