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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Your numbers on the slave trade are similar to others I have seen. Roughly only 4-5% came to North America and rest 95-96% went to central and South America as well as the Caribbean In those places because of the tropical climates they died at a high rate. In largely temperate North America they survived so the roughly 400,000 black slaves are now 40 million African Americans who are here because their African brothers sold them to the traffickers, and America was a secondary market.
They do nothing, absolutely nothing, but take one small slice out of history of slavery cake. Man has been enslaving’ itself since groups have been interacting and that is tens of thousands of years....and it still exists today.
It’s even scarier when you add in the number of family members of the “press” that join Democrat WH staff and Democrat operatives that become “press”.
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