[kathsua]

I wonder if the descendants of American slaves are doing anything to end slavery in Africa?

[Impala64ssa]

Also, why do so many Blacks tend to convert to islime? They renounce the religion of those who owned their ancestors and embrace the religion of those who, in many cases, still own AND sell their brethren. Yeah, stick it to the White man by biting off their collective noses to spite their faces, makes sense.

[SkyDancer]

It was the mussies that captured and sold them into slavery and blacks continue to convert to islam.

[Still Thinking]

Sure. They try to vote in such a way as to expand the welfare state to such a degree that all the Africans will immigrate. No more [overt] slavery!

[Louis Foxwell]

A tiny fraction of the slave trade to the new world came to the colonies. The vast majority (more than 90%) went to the islands in the Caribbean and to South America.

[Tau Food]

When I see a title like “The Truth About Slavery” I am reminded of a guy who tried to convince me that he was taught in his Texas high school that a lot of the slaves in America came here as volunteers because they wanted so badly to leave Africa. I have occasionally passed that one on - as a joke.

[boycott]

No one was more brutal to Africans than muzzies. Yet they convert to muzzie? Additionally, arab muzzies look down on black muzzies.

[ProudFossil]

And no mention of the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, Native Americans who were forced into slavery both by the British but especially the Spanish in the southwest.

[ForYourChildren]

“Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3303713/posts

Here’s something you won’t read about in the US history books. The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves.

Anthony Johnson (BC 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.

Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.

Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson.

In 1651 Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. The black indentured servant John Casor (Casar, Cazarao and Corsala) demanded that Johnson release him after his seven years of indenture.

In March of 1654, according to Delmarva Settlers, Anthony’s servant, a man named John Casar requested that Johnson release him from his indenture because it had long expired past the usual seven years. Johnson replied that he knew of no indenture and that Casar was to be his servant for life. Anthony Johnson’s neighbors, George and Robert Parker, stated that they knew of another indenture for the said Casar to a planter on the other side of the bay.

[LonePalm]

Only about 3% of African slaves were sent to North America.

The vast majority went to Brazil and the Caribbean.

For an interesting read on slavery, I strongly recommend Fogel and Engerman's book Time on the Cross. Click on picture for more info.

I had this as a textbook in Economic History in the late 70s. I got to meet the authors as they were friends of my professor.

"Ceterum censeo 0bama esse delendam."

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[48th SPS Crusader]

Truth is rarely an important factor in racial politics.

[DoodleDawg]

Oh God. Not again.

Link

[TBP]

The brilliant Dr. Walter E. Williams is fond of saying that he is much better off today because his ancestors were brought here as slaves.

[JimSEA]

I don’t think Columbus intent was to find new markets for slaves, at least initially he was bent on the riches of the Orient. However slavery was a part of the settlement of portions of the Americas. Pizarro and Cortez were out to rob the locals and discover gold and silver in the rocks. They brought slaves but that was an incident of the times.

[centurion316]

One of my wife’s Italian ancestors was captured and sold into slavery by Muslims from North Africa in the early 17th Century. He was put to work as a galley slave, managed to escape, was rescued by an English merchant vessel en route to the New World. Arriving in Virginia, he was sold to pay for his passage on terms of a 7 year indenture. At the end of his indenture, he became a free man. Indenture vice slavery were used for Christians, since enslavement of Christians in the Western World had been outlawed for Centuries.

Slavery was a global practice until very slowly prohibited by a few cultures. Christendom was among the first to curb slavery in some form. Long after slavery was ended in the New World, the practice continued throughout the Muslim world and is still practiced in fact if not in law.

[Verginius Rufus]

During the centuries that some Europeans were enslaving people in Africa and taking them to the New World, the Turks were enslaving white Europeans. People traveling by ship in the Mediterranean, or even sometimes in the Atlantic, were in danger of being captured by Turkish pirates and becoming slaves. People living near the coasts of Mediterranean Europe were in danger of being carried away in slave raids by Turkish pirates. I think the last such incident in Sardinia was either 1815 or 1816.

The only Ottoman commander who came out of the battle of Lepanto with an enhanced reputation, Uluz Ali, was an Italian who had been captured as a young man and made a galley slave, but later converted to Islam and eventually was commander of the entire Ottoman navy.

[Eagles6]

Many of the slaves sent to the English colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries, especially the Carribean were Irish. Pretty sure they were White.

Of Course this doesn't fit the narrative so,never mind.

Also, at the time of the War of Secession, some of the slave owners with the largest holdings were black.

[the_daug]

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad.

Just finished listening to this audiobook.