Posted on 09/05/2014 3:49:06 PM PDT by Ennis85
Unbelievable. GTFOOMC if you don’t like it here!!
If someone wrote a book about the history of slavery, US slavery would probably only be a short chapter.
Slavery was outlawed in the U.S. less than ninety years after the country declared its’ Independence.
True, but it was evil, nonetheless. Now, obviously, we cannot change what those who went before us did, but neither should we make light of it.
Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head.
Slavery has been part and parcel of the human experience ever since there have been humans. Whether the slaves were captives from war, bought or traded for food, horse, whatever, slavery has ALWAYS been around.
Our Judeo-Christian roots, via Europe, finally stopped the trade for the West, north of the border.
Besides, I've been to Africa (Kenya) and KNOW that American blacks are a ZILLION times better off HERE in the USA.
Those with ANY brains know that.
The American chapter on slavery would be pamphlet size.
I think the reviewer was right. Slaves were treated terribly, like, well, slaves, but it was economically counterproductive to physically damage a slave and reduce their productivity. Because of the prohibition on importation, by 1860 slaves were extremely valuable in the currency of the day. Indeed, most Southerners could not afford to own a slave.
As late as WWI, Portugal turned a blind eye to slavery in her colonies, specifically, Angola.
Cacao, instead of cotton...
Nor should we make ‘heavy’ of it. The evil men do lives on well enough by itself without helping it with exaggeration and cant.
Or diamonds in the case of the Belgian Congo.
Not all slaves were treated badly. Some were actually treated very well if for no other reason than they were a major investment. That said, being treated as pampered livestock is still being treated as livestock.
It is worthwhile to read “A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery in the Several States of the United States of America”, George M. Stroud, 1827
Truth offends liberals.
Probably makes it worse.
Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell
Vikings took slaves from Engalnd, Wales, Ireland, Norway (until a jarl attacked their pirate outpost on Orkney), they took slaves from Russia, Germany, France, and anywhere in the mediterranean. Slaves were sold to Turks and were never heard from again. Viking slaver pirates were the scourge of every ocean for hundreds of years.
I saw a copy of one of my ancestor’s will and he bequeathed his “negro” to someone. I found it to be quite chilling but they were considered property. Not something any of us are proud of.
Slaves in a primitive time were sold to a distant land and never heard from again?
did you expect they’d write?
:p
/s
it is ironic that blacks who claim to hate slavery, and say they are slaves now when they aren’t in america, join islam, a “religion” that allows slavery of non-islams as a “nice” way to treat them.
i know some were treated well enough that when slavery ended they stayed working for their former owners.
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