Posted on 05/22/2021 1:59:17 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
....1619 Project rhetoric implies that slavery was an American invention; in fact slavery has existed across the globe for thousands of years. It implies that 12.5 million Africans were shipped to America. In fact the real number is 388,000. The remainder were shipped to the Caribbean and Central and South America. The arrival of Africans in 1619 "inaugurated a barbaric system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years … it is the country's very origin." False on two points, Wood argues. The Africans who arrived in 1619 landed in a colony that was not comparable to the antebellum, plantation-era South. Rather, they landed in a colony where indentured workers could earn their way to freedom and go on to purchase their own slaves.
"Slavery was not recognized by English common law; once the captives landed their status became fuzzy … None were recorded as slaves … many of the captives were, after a term of indenture, set free … the colony at the time had no system of slavery as such," writes Wood. Records of "slaves" refer to Englishmen who had been convicted of crimes and who were punished by a period of involuntary servitude. If you missed church services you would "be a slave for the following week." Indentured servants, including these Africans, had rights under law and a chance to work their way out of servitude.
Those released from bondage in mid-seventeenth-century Virginia acquired property and married, often to white settlers. Wood quotes Ira Berlin, an historian of American slavery. "At least one man from every leading free black family – The Johnsons, Paynes, and Drigguses – married a white woman." Before 1640 "blacks and whites mingled freely.".....
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This is a long review and contains a lot of historical information I was not aware of. Sounds like an interesting book.
Muslims trading in sub-Saharan Africans for more than a thousand years before the 17th century isn’t a thing in the eyes of the Woke.
Sorry, more than 900 years.
Slavery existed in Biblical times and exists even today..The US did not invent it.. White men did not go to the interior of Africa to hunt for men to sell , they were sold by their tribal enemies to the white men at the ports of “the Gold Coast”...
Africans got stinking rich selling their own people...That part kills the white man is bad narrative regarding slavery
When Mansa Musa made his pilgrimage he brought such wealth with him, wealth founded in no small part in selling human flesh, that he was celebrated long after he was gone.
“Muslims trading in sub-Saharan Africans for more than a thousand years before the 17th century isn’t a thing in the eyes of the Woke.”
I suggest a book called Skeletons on the Zahara. It is a first hand account of a group of wypipo from europe who were captured and enslaved by a group of wandering muslims. In the 1800s, it was the largest selling book in the world
we all need to stop playing this game with one another.
USA is 330 million people. Less than 5% of the entire world population. The other 95% out there-primarily represented by China which has real “needs”in terms of land mass and resources -are trying to carve up the USA from the inside out.
Thats the primary purpose of the 1619 beeessss
On YouTube there is a Greek History video where, in passing, mentions that the Ancient Greek civilization had slaves. But you tube told him he could not use that term. So he said they were household servants that would work for free, were purchased, could be sold, and were the property of the purchaser. There were a term that sounded like “brave” but he could not use that term
National Association of Scholars 10/6/2020
Pulitzer Board Must Revoke Nikole Hannah-Jones’ Prize
The National Association of Scholars has agreed to host this public letter to the Pulitzer Prize Board. The letter calls on the Board to rescind the prize it awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones earlier this year. I am one of the 21 signatories. A hard copy has been mailed to the Pulitzer Committee as well as a digital copy.
—Peter Wood, President, National Association of Scholars
We call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project.” That essay was entitled, “Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.” But it turns out the article itself was false when written, making a large claim that protecting the institution of slavery was a primary motive for the American Revolution, a claim for which there is simply no evidence.
We call on the Pulitzer Prize Board to rescind the 2020 Prize for Commentary awarded to Nikole Hannah-Jones for her lead essay in “The 1619 Project.”
When the Board announced the prize on May 4, 2020, it praised Hannah-Jones for “a sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay for the ground-breaking 1619 Project, which seeks to place the enslavement of Africans at the center of America’s story, prompting public conversation about the nation’s founding and evolution.” Note well the last five words. Clearly the award was meant not merely to honor this one isolated essay, but the Project as a whole, with its framing contention that the year 1619, the date when some twenty Africans arrived at Jamestown, ought to be regarded as the nation’s “true founding,” supplanting the long-honored date of July 4, 1776, which marked the emergence of the United States as an independent nation. Beginning almost immediately after its publication, though, the essay and the Project ran into controversy.
It has been subjected to searching criticism by many of the foremost historians of our time and by the Times’ own fact checker. The scrutiny has left the essay discredited, so much so that the Times has felt the need to go back and change a crucial passage in it, softening but not eliminating its unsupported assertion about slavery and the Revolution.
The Project as a whole was marred by similar faults. Prominent historians, most of them deeply sympathetic to the Project’s goal of bringing the African American experience more fully into our understanding of the American past, nevertheless felt obliged to point out, in public statements beginning in September 2019, the Project’s serious factual errors, specious generalizations, and forced interpretations. Hannah-Jones did not refute these criticisms or answer them in a respectful or meaningful way. Instead, she dismissed them. ...
More at:
https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/pulitzer-board-must-revoke-nikole-hannah-jones-prize
CRT, tied at the hip with the 1619 Project, invites criticism of everything but itself as criticism of it is denounced as “fragility”. The 1619 Project founder Nikole Hannah-Jones’ work was roundly criticized by numerous historians, left and right, as fiction. Critical Race Theory is the friend and ally of Woke Capitalism (the newest iteration in the merger of Big Business and Big Government) that Matt Taibbi and TheHill have shown in the YT video “Matt Taibbi Dismantles Woke Corporate Race Book “White Fragility.”
CRT doesn’t seek to examine racism, but rather is a leftist construct of false arguments that has no scientific methodology to achieve this. Instead, it relies upon anecdotal evidence to paint “whitey” with a broad brush, is bolstered with the “Kafka Trap”, and falsely labels groups as oppressed or oppressors, and says racism is an unchangable part of America while advocating for black only spaces; All the while it ignores black Moors enslaved whites, blacks and whites being enslaved in the Middle East in the 700’s-1000’s, ignores who owned a disproportionate share of slave ships and slave markets in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, etc.
CRT isn’t actually a social science, but is rather a pseudoscience masquerading as science as it laughably claims that science (math, chemistry, etc) is subjective. And the irony is that the science-denier CRT proponents outright reject objectivity and logic as well.
Watch videos on Noel Ignatiev (”Noel Ignatiev on Whiteness”) as he projects his internal bias thinking he is being anti-racist and you will see the madness of this as CRT was founded upon Critical Theory from the Frankfurt School of Herbert Marcuse, Max Horkheimer, etc.
I suggest a ‘619’ project about the Pedo-Profit Mad Moe (Pig Pee Upon Him) who made slavery into a religion.
Europeans bought slaves in Africa for the same reason you bought gas last time at a gas station: a buyer goes where the desired item is sold.
OK, this was a long good read. And very informative. And I didn’t know about the Project 1619. Quite a distortion of facts.
I can’t believe that it was an accidental escape. It looks awfully like a trial run, a combat probe as it were.
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On the Real History of Slavery by Thomas Sowell
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