Speaking simplistically, the Spanish and the Portuguese are just as much to blame for American Slavery as the English are.
WTF does this have to do with what’s going on in 2019?
Or the VAST slavery that is present NOW and involves muzzies.
Whatever.
All of these channels and msm outlets are politicizing themselves into non existence down the road.
Not good business to piss off half of an audience.
The John Rolfe mentioned in the article is my 12th great-grandfather.
America’s slavery began with Native Americans who practiced it at least as well as anyone else.
I read that the English tried using Irishmen as slaves in the West Indies but the Irish slaves could not stand the heat and died before the English got enough work out of them.
1619 was the first slave in british north america. I don’t see what is to be gained by arguing that undeniable fact.
How about we learn the history of the indigenous people of America at that time, who more than likely had their own slaves that they captured from other tribes.
Liberals would have you believe that slavery STARTED in America and that at no time in history did it ever exist elsewhere.
“...U.S. school curricula tend to ignore much of what happened in the Atlantic prior to the Jamestown settlement and also the colonial projects of other countries that became part of America, such as Dutch New York, Swedish Delaware and French-Spanish Louisiana and Florida. “There is both an Anglo-centrism and east coast bias to much of traditional American history,” says (Mark)Summers.”
Best passage in the whole article (imho)
America as a nation, was born in 1776. It then abolished slavery and by 1866 it can be reasonably asserted that slavery had ended. Roughly 90 years from inception of the nation to rejection of the concept of slavery.
The Brits had a much longer span. Roughly 1640 to 1830, or 190 years.
Islam has had a MUCH longer span. If we peg the start of Islam and slavery as 630 and the end of slavery as the last nation to ban (marked as the end of the Ottoman empire) the time span is about 1400 years. If one counts Mauritania as the last nation (Islamic) to abolish slavery, the time line extends to 1980’s.
Victorious Amerindian tribes often enslaved those whom they defeated. Long before Columbus.
Native American Indians had slaves too.
That was the whole point of the “war party” - young guys would ride out to capture goodies, rape, kill, and take slaves from other tribes.
It continues in lesser form today where guys drive around yelling at chicks walking along the street.
IRRELVANT to me. Couldn’t care less.
My family, past and present, had NOTHING to do with any slavery.
Slavery was abolished over 150 years ago. Time to MOVE ON.
Goodness! White men are even worse than we thought!
Native Americans were enslaving each other for thousands of years before Europeans came.
REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY? GIVE ME A BREAK!!
https://www.brighteon.com/5842523575001
HOUGH RIOTS OF ‘66 & ‘68
https://www.brighteon.com/f6364c54-b6bd-446f-aae2-e7c2f157f0ec
IS TRUMP INCITING VIOLENCE?
https://www.brighteon.com/8babaa66-b8aa-49b2-85dc-1c1717d8823a
All of the pre-Colombian "great civilizations" of the Americas, with their irrigated and often terraced agriculture (using human muscle, and no draft animals) and their monumental Temple complexes and city-center structures, were built by slave labor.
Even the more primitive, non-city-building indigenous peoples, especially those which practiced female infanticide, engaged in raiding their neighbors to capture women and children (and later, after the Spanish made landfall, horses.)
Slavery within the Native American tribes was wide spread thousands of years before Columbus.
The History Channel is way off of the agenda here.
But the question of who were the slave traders and who were they selling to before the discovery of “The New World” remains unasked much less answered.