The irony in the Pharisee's statement is that Israel (Judea, Samaria, and Galilee) were under occupation from Rome at the time they stated this!? They were not free as a nation, and they were not free spiritually. As I write this, there is a Google sponsored ad blitz on Youtube supporting the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI.org). It is Ironic that at a time when blacks have more opportunities than any time in history, this organization makes statements as though slavery still exists in America...
"I don't believe we are free in america"
"America's Legacy of Slavery, Lynching, and Segregation"
"We created this environment by being silent
Slavery didnt end in 1865...we haven't done anything to acknowledge it!
While no one denies that America had slavery, what is conspicuously absent is truth regarding color blind slavery. People of all races and skin colors were enslaved; blacks, whites, and all others together. Blacks, whites, and all others together must know the truth today; virtually all countries in the history of the world had some form of slavery at some point yet it was Great Britain and America that eradicated slavery in the world today (except in Muslim countries where blacks are still being enslaved)...
I want Reparations!!!!!!!!!!
How many times do I have to hear “America is haunted by slavery”? That, of course, only includes black slavery. It doesn’t take into account that almost every country in the world has practiced slavery, and others still do even today. Some of them are more brutal than ever existed here. Yet I’m supposed to worry about slavery 200 freaking years ago, and feel “haunted” by it. No one is a slave in the land of the free, get over it. Call me a racist if you want to. But that makes you a liar.
Yeah, they probably sucked close to 40% of their income out of them in taxes and forced them to contribute to a Ponzi scheme and set a mandate that forced them to buy crappy, overpriced health insurance.
Wait a minute....
Between this and the press gangs for the Royal Navy, a guy didn’t want to hang around English ports.
“Black slaves received better treatment than Europeans.....”
That’s outright comedy.
“Black slaves received better treatment than Europeans.....”
That’s outright comedy.
Great dose of reality history... Thank you.
At around the same time, the Dutch also had white slavery in New York state.
Indentured servnts weren’t slaves. They served for seven years then were free. They wern’t considered property and their descendants weren’t bound in perpetutity.
White people need to bitch and moan more.
I highly recommend “The Fatal Shore”, a book about Australia Penal colony.
Many Irish were enslaved. German Hessian soldiers were drafted in Germany and sold to England to fight the Colonists.
Slavery is horrible. Trying to represent one form or another as worse is kind of missing the point.
Slaves, as well as owners, were every color. Black owners are also “forgotten.”
My Catholic Irish ancestors were sent from Ulster to the Livingston plantation just south of Rensselaer in 1720...
Every male 10 and up in the family was indentured until they were 21...
and then theres my 7 year old ancestor who was made a slave till age 21 in MASS Colony in 1633 to pay for her father’s crimes...
he was free and deported to New York Colony years before she was free...