Conservatives: Worried about losing the internet? I have an idea; record an audiobook

A citizen historian

[kalee]

For later

[Edward.Fish]

Car radio shows can be entertaining, but you are stuck with a ton of advertisements.

Yeah, I mean sometimes you just want to yell at the radio D*mnit! Quit interrupting my LifeLock broadcasting with this "Rush Limbaugh" guy!

(I don't listen to Limbaugh anymore, but I do remember that the commercial to info ratio was getting pretty absurd last time I did.)

[Jamestown1630]

Librivox appears to be part of, or associated with, archive.org, which is a great source in general.

If you go to archive.org and put in an author or title, it will show you all of the downloadable formats they have available - text, audio, video.

In my experience their search system is kind of clumsy, so if you don’t find what you want (assuming it is something that would be there in the first place, in the public domain, under Creative Commons license, etc.) - try searching in different ways.

[snooter55]

bfl

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

Thanks.

Our Pastor is doing a book on how he beat his colon cancer without using chemotherapy and/or radiation.

i will pass your information on to him.
Thanks again.

[Jamestown1630]

Books copyrighted prior to 1923 are now in the public domain. A lot of other items are as well. Here is a general chart:

http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

In additon, many recent items are licensed by the authors under Creative Commons or similar permissions. See creativecommons.org

[poconopundit]

Thanks for the tip...

[Louis Foxwell]

There are a number of sources. Read the article at http://www.rawstory.com/2014/10/four-myths-about-slavery-in-the-us/

This covers numbers and distribution. Numbers of free blacks up to the CW. and black slave owners.

americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm

Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city. Do a little digging. There is plenty of verified info available on the reality of slavery.

One more item:

There were many times more Whites brought to America as Slaves than there ever were Blacks. And the White Slaves were treated much worse! According to these resources as well as many more, the Scots‑Irish have been enslaved longer than any other race in the world's history. There Were More White Slaves - israelect.com israelect.com/reference/WillieMartin/SLAVE-1.htm

[poconopundit]

Thanks. Highly interesting numbers. And if more people knew of these statistics, it would change their perception of history.

Sounds like someone needs to do a documentary on this subject.

[Weirdad]

Great post and suggestions, thank you !