Posted on 02/21/2021 7:20:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The new "chroniclers" of America's past would transform our history to paint the United States a systemically bigoted state founded on racism in 1619. The most fraudulent aspect of this dishonest scheme is that it fails to address the salient characteristic of slavery in the United States and Europe: the near elimination of slavery in the West by the mid-19th century.
This means that slavery as an institution was carried on in Europe for about three centuries from the beginning of the Enlightenment and then, in the blink of a historical eye, banned and made illegal. Within less than a century from 1800, legal slavery had been ended worldwide thanks to the ideas of the European Enlightenment thinkers.
Until the 19th century, slavery had been a part of our shared experience since human history began. Slavery is always brutal and inhuman, but enslavers viewed the enslaved as somehow warranting their enslavement. For example, Aristotle stated in The Politics, "[T]hat some should rule and others be ruled is a thing not only necessary, but expedient; from the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule[.]" Others were less philosophical, but the results were similar.
In Europe, slavery ebbed and flowed, usually with the fortunes of war. After the erosion of the Roman Empire, slavery continued in Europe, most notably in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe.
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* Great slave networks had existed in Africa hundreds of years before the arrival of the Portuguese. The Ghana Empire and the Mali Empire following it supported slavery in a variety of forms. Such empires and the smaller tribal groups engaged in slavery and the long-distance slave trade.
* It appears that many slaves were transported and sold to the Muslim worlds of North Africa and the Middle East. An eastern slave route from Africa to India expandED trade due in part to the conquests of Muhammad bin Qasim.
* Likewise, slavery had been at times integral to Chinese society to a greater or lesser degree since the second millennium BCE.
The unfulfilled promise of our country is expressed in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These aspirational words written by Thomas Jefferson (himself a slave-owner and personally conflicted about the practice) are the foundation of America.
The idea that somehow the United States is a fundamentally racist country founded on racism by racists is far from the truth. Socially constructed racism remains a challenge for the United States, but the aspirations of the Founders in the Declaration have proven far more important and powerful than any Hollywoodish racist script peddled by today’s race-baiting hucksters.
Slavery is gone....at least for black folks.
Coming as per cancel culture, in about three months, liberty and freedom are tawdry vestiges of white supremacy.
It’s a shame that some kids who have been brainwashed into believing a lit want to transform the entire country, rewrite it’s history and destroy our future to satisfy their delusions. Quite like “changing your sex” because, well now you “feel like you’re a woman instead of a man”. These are mental issues, not science or biology and what happened in our past is past, we moved on. To punish the people of today over something these kids perceived happened 400 years ago is ludicrous and pure insanity. It’s like something out of a Star Trek episode, to try and change the past. It’s over, we are now in 2021. Move forward, not backwards, embrace reality, don’t create a fantasy. Slavery ended. It’s over. Quit pretending it’s still going on when it’s not.
My wife tells me her great grandmother was a slave as a young girl during the Qing Dynasty.
What no one wants to talk about are all the European people taken to North Africa in the Barbary slave trafficking. Who knows.. Maybe their slavery was part of their ‘privilege’.
Since the CCP erased most of China’s history and replaced it with their own, verbal history is the more accurate version for sure. My wife tells me of her family’s history there as well.
It’s a mistake to act like they dont know or understand.
OF COURSE they understand. They are deliberately LYING because that’s the way that they’re going to indoctrinate the next generation of little marxists.
What no one wants to talk about are all the European people taken to North Africa in the Barbary slave trafficking. Who knows.. Maybe their slavery was part of their ‘privilege’.
The 1619 project is just another tool to undermine America.
Islam STILL practices slavery.
There still is slavery in the world today and all these bleeding heart liberals never seem to care about that.
The Hindu Kush earned its name from the Muslim slave trade of Hindu peoples.
Tears!
Many captured people died on their forced march to Arab slave markets.
Slave routes and numbers 1501-1875
OF COURSE they understand. They are deliberately LYING because that’s the way that they’re going to indoctrinate the next generation of little marxists.
This is the proper approach. We have to stop acting like it's enough to just refute the assertions of the left while not also refuting their intentions.
They don’t care. They are using it as an excuse to promote the dismantling of this formerly great nation and replacing it with a totalitarian regime that takes all of Whitey’s money and gives to indolent non-producers.
“What 1619 Project Hucksters Don’t Understand”
Oh, they understand all right. They understand it very well.
They want your kids not to understand. That’s the point.
A short and quick history lesson and basic math re slavery in America.
1781, September 28, Battle of Yorktown begins:
On September 28, 1781, General George Washington, commanding a force of 17,000 French and Continental troops, begins the siege known as the Battle of Yorktown against British General Lord Charles Cornwallis and a contingent of 9,000 British troops at Yorktown, Virginia, in the most important and final big battle of the Revolutionary War.
America was not an evil country in the 1600’s to the late 1700’s. It didn’t exist in 1619 or most of the 1700’s.
Peace negotiations with England began in 1782, and on September 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, formally recognizing the United States as a free and independent nation after eight years of war.
Basic math and history!:
Jamestown, Va. 1619 “20 Negroes” arrive on Dutch ship
In September 3,1783
We won the war with England, 164 years later.
We were not a nation in August 1619.
Jamestown was not even officially a Brit colony in 1619. Any slavery before 1783 was on England’s record. Most if not all of those 1619 Africans were indentured servants not slaves. Many, like my African ancestors were listed as Free Slaves in the censuses from the 1700’s.
Our Constitution was ratified: 169 years after 1619!
On June 21, 1788, the Constitution became the official framework of the government of the United States of America, when New Hampshire became the ninth of 13 states to ratify it. The journey to ratification, however, was a long and arduous process.
England did not even begin the process until 1807. One could argue that it was in part motivated by the trend in the US to diminish the institution of slavery as written into the Constitution, but, regardless, it was nations of the Anglosphere that led the way while others continued the practice, some into the 20th Century (and, some might claim, the 21st).
The only thing that “ended” slavery in Africa and Asia was European colonization.
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