I guess I went to a different school. We learned about the history of slavery back in the 1960s.
Honestly, I don’t know why we keep beating these dead horses. The only good answers are: Slavery is and was bad. We stopped it, at a significant cost to our country. It’s been 160 years and it’s time we focused on getting everyone moving forward.
A lot of these “facts” sound like excuses. There are no excuses to be made.
Say, darkies, hab you seen de massa, wid de muffstash on his face
Go long de road some time dis mornin', like he gwine to leab de place?
He seen a smoke way up de ribber, whar de Linkum gunboats lay;
He took his hat, and lef' berry sudden, and I spec' he's run away!
CHORUS: De massa run, ha, ha! De darkey stay, ho, ho! It mus' be now de kindom coming, an' de year ob Jubilo!
He six foot one way, two foot tudder, and he weigh tree hundred pound
His coat so big, he couldn't pay the tailor, an' it won't go halfway round
He drill so much dey call him Cap'n, an' he got so drefful tanned
I spec' he try an' fool dem Yankees for to tink he's contraband
CHORUS
De darkeys feel so lonesome libbing in de loghouse on de lawn
Dey move dar tings into massa's parlor for to keep it while he's gone
Dar's wine an' cider in de kitchen, an' de darkeys dey'll have some;
I s'pose dey'll all be cornfiscated when de Linkum sojers come
CHORUS
De obserseer he make us trouble, an' he dribe us round a spell;
We lock him up in de smokehouse cellar, wid de key trown in de well
De whip is lost, de han'cuff broken, but de massa'll hab his pay;
He's ole enough, big enough, ought to known better dan to went an' run away
CHORUS
“Peak 1860: Only 1.2% of U.S. population owned slaves “
As usual, a story on slavery is presented with only part of the story, leaving out more important facts that do not look good for blacks.
Here is the rest of the story: In the 1840 census, only 1.4% of whites owned blacks while 24% of blacks owned blacks.
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I disagree slavery was abolished. It just transformed into human trafficking.
From the time of the middle of the 19th Century, the deep Southern States’ governments and the Southern people have been depicted as being totally preoccupied with the survival of slavery, while Northern people were to become the defenders of universal freedom. Those reading many of the dominant post-era authors of the history of this period are often led to the absolute conclusion that the controversies which arose between the states, and the war in which they culminated, were caused largely by efforts on the one side to extend and perpetuate human slavery, and on the other side to resist it and establish human liberty.
Generations of Southern people and many historians would vigorously disagree with these views. Based on records of the time, that construct is substantially devoid of important historical facts, and fails to include the issues, which produced the secession, and those that caused President Lincoln to send Federal troops to the harbor in Charleston and initiate war.
This is a great disservice to generations of Americans who have not been urged to study the records of the period produced by authors writing at the actual time of the events. However, having been consistently presented in modern schoolbook, film, and television media accounts of the American Civil War, these notions have now spread to become the commonly accepted thesis of that era in US history.
This thesis is wrong.
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The political capital gleaned from the lies taught about slavery has been so massive it’s the lifeline of leftism.
This explains the pushback against revealing the truth.
America did not perpetrate the enslavement of Africans, we ended it.
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