Posted on 07/17/2021 3:40:51 PM PDT by Starman417
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I’m a half-breed Mojave. I have never had any thoughts on slavery. It bores me.
Anthony Johnson first documented colonist slave (as opposed to indentured servant) owner was Black.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
Only 5% of African slaves were sold to the American colonies. The vast majority went to Brazil and the Caribbean.
I don’t think you are old enough or broad enough in your history of slavery. Slavery has been found in every society that left any written language behind. And for many who didn’t, slavery was talked about by those who discovered them. The Aztecs had slaves, the Chinese had slaves. Karl Marx claims that slavery was the next evolutionary societal step after communal family living. As one tribe or family conquered or took in people from outside, they were generally slaves, women especially.
We are so uppity about slavery now. But the fact is, if you have an IQ above 110 you are certainly an antecedent of a slave owner. And if your IQ is less then you are only likely to be related to a slave owner. And just as likely to be the long lost relative of a slave as well. And this goes for Africans, Irish, American Indians and virtually all people alive today. Slavery is very old. And its very natural. We just don’t like it now.
I just finished reading “Peter the Great,” and was surprised to learn about the magnitude of the Ottoman slave raids into the Ukraine. An old book (originally pubished in 1980), but reading it provides insight into the politics of the early 1700s.
It has been black men and Muslims who are advancing slavery today.
Or, better yet, screw reparations.
Thank the Gods you had time to stop by and comment, though.
As Aristotle said: “Humanity is divided into two, the Master and the Slave.” And all races, without exception, were on both sides of that divide.
The greatest injustice, when it comes to the social and historical perspective of slavery, is how it’s taught. Due to a concerted and successful effort on the Left, that has thoroughly saturated our MSM and academia; the only people who should be given the greatest credit in ending the practice, are instead, the only ones being held solely responsible for it.
I’m a direct descendant of a White Italian officer (Red Shirt Captain under Gen. Garibaldi during the Italian Wars for Unification, i.e., The Risorgimento) who came to America after the Emancipation Proclamation, for the sole purpose of fighting to free Blacks from slavery, and he led a Black regiment (39th U.S.C.T.) at the battles of Petersburg (including the Battle of the Crater) and who was killed after the Battle of Ft. Fisher in 1865, when, due to the greed and incredible stupidity of several of his soldiers (who slipped away and entered the Fort’s powder magazine with lit open torches while looking for Confederate loot) caused a massive explosion that killed over 200 Union Soldiers, including my ancestor, who were participating in a victory parade above.
It was White Western Civilization and the White created Abolitionist Movement in Europe, spurred on by a White Western Christian philosophy within the contemporary social politics of the basic rights of Man (i.e. life, liberty, and self-determination), that was the first catalyst to end slavery in most of the world, with full emancipation here in America, at the cost of over 600,000 mostly White men and boys, buried in the ground. Such was the cost of Black Freedom. The butcher’s bill paid in MY White ancestor’s blood.
Like most Whites, there are no slave skeletons in my ancestors’ closets (except those who were slaves themselves), no one who discriminated, or did “terrible things” to Blacks. Just like most of us, a lot of poor hardworking forefathers; from abolitionist soldiers, and others who were child slave laborers, to others who had the “White Privilege” of being cannon fodder in Europe’s many wars.
The vast majority of Whites living in the US today have no ancestors who ever owned a Black slave, nor did the vast majority of Whites during the time when slavery existed in some parts of the US. In fact, only 1 in 7 Southern Whites owned a slave. But one White man died for every 6 Black slaves that were freed in the Civil War. And let’s not ignore the fact that today Black slavery is still practiced in parts of Africa with little notice from the MSM, and little to no open outrage from those Liberals and Blacks who use the past to incite racial guilt and animosity.
That fact is ignored, unappreciated, and covered up by the Left and the many Blacks who are being taught and conditioned to hate Whites. The vast majority of Black slaves in the world were enslaved by non-Whites, non-Christians; and the vast majority of Black slaves were shipped to non-American shores. Yet they have no problem with the non-Whites races, religions, and nations that enslaved their ancestors.
Further, the Blacks who feign hysterical levels of outrage that their ancestors were once slaves in America, show no real outrage that fellow Blacks are still being enslaved in parts of Africa today by Muslims.
If my ancestor could make the long, dangerous journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Italy to the US on a wooden sailing ship, to come here to fight to free Black slaves. Surely these same outraged and angry American Blacks could make a comfortable Airline ride back to Africa to do the same.
Yet I see no attempts or even the slightest interest of Blacks angry about America’s relatively short history of slavery (in SOME parts of her territory), to form private regiments of ‘Black Freedom Fighters’, and go back to their Motherland to fight to free Black slaves and end Blacks slavery there today.
Apparently they’re too comfortable complaining about White people. As their slavery outrage only extends to when Whites enslaved Blacks, just like ‘Black Lives Matter’ only when a Black is killed by a White cop, not fellow Blacks.
Slavery was invented when agriculture was invented.
Raising crops is hard work, and the first thought is to make someone else do the hard, sweaty work.
Life expectancy for slaves in North America versus Africa
The concept of freedom in the Congo or Ghana where u lived and existed at the whim of the chjef
It’s all so stupid
Just another excuse for blacks to never be held to account and diminish white political power
Plenty on this forum drink from this chalice
The very word, slave, comes from Slavs.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter1.shtml
Don’t forget these graphics as well:
http://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gitn_1027_Slave-Trade-2.png
“As their slavery outrage only extends to when Whites enslaved Blacks”
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More true than most know of...
https://www.amazon.com/White-Cargo-Forgotten-History-Britains/dp/0814742963
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Slavs - they were the main product of Middle Eastern & Central Asian slave markets for something like 1000 years probably longer.
Bears repeating and amplification.
This is fiction, but there may be reality behind it:
“The Chain of Death Raid”
“The aftermath of a raid on a German column headed for a vital oasis results in both Troy and Dietrich being captured by Arab slave-traders. Joined at the wrist by a length of heavy chain, they soon escape, only to find themselves lost in the desert and miles from help. Without food, water or shelter, the two bitter enemies have no choice but to rely on each other or face certain death under a blazing sun.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Rat_Patrol_episodes
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