Posted on 09/05/2019 12:12:35 PM PDT by Perseverando
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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