Posted on 01/17/2020 7:56:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
“ ...the 400th anniversary of the arrival in America of the first enslaved people from West Africa.”
There were slaves all over the world long before that.
Heavy.
No. The arrivals were indentured servants and worked off their indentures, becoming free men. Until 1642 slavery was non-existent in the colonies. It was established by a Crown court decision that year when John Casor sued to be released from his indenture as he had completed his term of indenture. Anthony Johnson (a former indentured servant who had completed his indenture and had grown wealthy) refused to release him. The court decided in Johnson's favor declaring that Casor owed his labor to Johnson for the remainder of his life.
There were even slaves all over before Islam rumbled into Africa, though with Islam it sure got a boost.
Mohammad was so white...
How white was he?
Mohammad was so white that he could use mayonnaise for eye shadow.
Slaves bought from muslim slave traders.
Islam STILL practices slavery.
And of course the enslavement of indigenous people by both indigenous people and Europeans didn’t count because the enslavement of Black Africans was all that mattered. The fact that Muslims are still enslaving black Africans is also irrelevant to making America bad the the ignorant readers of the New York slimes. Never mind that the philosophical and religious underpinnings of the abolitionist movement started in America. Slavery lasted less than a Century nice America became independent.
Ready, set, go, let the left’s rewriting of history begin. In this one the United States is bad and the communists are the heroes.
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Slavery existed in the Western Hemisphere long before the arrival of the white man. And make no mistake about it, when the subject people of the Aztecs were used for mass human sacrifice on an ongoing basis, which is easily provably the case, those peoples were no more than slaves to the elites.
And still are today...sadly.
So, the proggies have failed in (re) educating people to embrace their world view. It's a bit ironic, since the left professes to favor cultural aspects. They literally bet the farm on the theory that they could change the world, and failed miserably.
IQ was, is and always be the primary human determinant. But, that's not to say science cannot rectify the imbalances. Genetic therapies directed at growing/developing/shaping improved brain mass, neurological connections, chemical miasma, etc - all the critical components of higher intelligence - are just years/decades away.
Add in cosmetic gene applications (hair, eye, skin color, etc), and who will be whom when anyone can be anybody?
I don’t believe the premise. European man was driven then as now by economics and wealth creation. With the opening up of the New World there weren’t enough human resources to develop it. The slaves and “indigenous people” provided that resource, until the natives died out There was no resistance because slavery had always been used to supplement human labor. The African slaves were cheap and resistant to the climate in the New World where most of them went (Caribbean and South America). North America was a minor player in New World slavery no matter what date you use,
If slavery was the basis of successful capitalism; why did the South lose the war? It was the industrial power of the North. Capitalism is based on Industry not agriculture; ask Karl Marx
The Industrial revolution was not based on slavery; therefore Capitalism was not based on slavery.
Boy, this won’t go down well on Martin Luther King’s birthday, lol.
The United States has to be uniquely villainous and culpable in the leftist worldview because that’s where the money is. Actual world history is not especially useful to them and in most instances thoroughly undermines their narrative. Thus, it’s not about slavery, or even racial equality. Those are mere means to an end.
The larger or more aggressive African tribes raided and warred with the smaller tribes and took slaves, livestock, ect. to trade. The Muslims traveled the trade routes in Africa, purchased the slaves and took them to the coastal markets. Then the Brits, Dutch, Portuguese ships got them to the New world, mainly the West Indies. Most American slavers got their slaves from there. The cherished Leftist meme that the evil evil Americans simply plucked Africans off the beach is bullsheet.
..the 400th anniversary of the arrival in America of the first enslaved people from West Africa.
1. There was no America then, we were still a British colony.
2. Subtract the number of slaves that were brought to what is now the USA from the total number taken from Africa. Save you the math - something like only 9% came here. Where did the other 90+% go? Hint - Central and South America.
3. Another bothersome fact - how did a few hundred Dutch traders armed only with flint-lock rifles go to the interior of Africa and capture hundreds of thousands of slaves? Hint, they didn’t. They only traded for them on the coast, while other Africans went inland and captured them.
4. But of course white male Americans are responsible for all of this.
Today they ongoingly sacrifice the pre born infants.
Public Serve Us goes on.
“....only with flint-lock rifles ....”
Flintlock??? Try matchlock ! Plus the challenge of keeping the match lit in a humid tropical environment!
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