Posted on 03/17/2014 12:06:49 PM PDT by eccentric
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In honor of St. Patrick's Day, lets remember captives and slaves whose sacrifice made ours lives so much better. Many don't know that Patrick was NOT Irish. He was born in Scotland and captured by the Irish when he was a teenager. Then he spread Christianity to the Irish. In the Bible, Joseph's brother's sold him into slavery. When he was later able to save his family, he told them, "What you meant for evil, God meant for Good." Thousands of years later, Squanto was captived by Europeans and taken away. Years later, after learning English, he made his way back to his home continent of America. Boy, were those Pilgrim surprised to meet him! But Squanto saved their lives! Sacagawea was actually a captive from one Native American tribe and meeting her brother helped Lewis and Clark when they meet a new tribe! Then there was the missionary who traveling to Africa, saw that prisoners of war were enslaved and finally killed if their home tribe couldn't pay the ransom for them. He offered to buy the captives and then send them to America where they would work as endentured servants to pay off their the cost of their purchase and passage. Later, Americans turned their few years of servanthood into a lifetime of slavery. But God turned man's evil into good, by giving millions of their descendents citizenship in the greatest nation in history. And their are so many millions of others throughout history, whose captivity and slavery made a better world for those who followed.
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I do not condone slavery but it has been one of the identifying features of mankind for many millennia.
So thank you for the perspective.
I, and millions more I am sure, are unaware of the start of how the slave trade morphed from what is described here.
Then again most democrats don’t know that they are the party of the KKK.
Not a rant, but besides St. Patrick, one of my favorite “freed” slaves is Shelia Jackson Lee. Amazing that she has been around that long.
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