Six Inconvenient Truths About Slavery

Townhall.com ^ | Sept. 26, 2007 | Michael Medved

[Nathan Zachary]

"Oh come on! The plantation system was created by the Portuguese in Brazil, and carried to the English Caribbean by Jews ..."

Still doesn't change the FACT that "the African slave trade was PIONEERED by Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and other merchants long before the settlement of English North America"

And is still in practice by Islam today, and is made "legal and good" for all time in the Koran by "allah"(Mohammad)

[The Duke]

The lure of cheap labor is the bane of all nations.

[paristwelve]

It’s a bit off the subject, but a few months ago I was watching a documentary on French TV about Africa. They were interviewing a West African Tribal Queen who feels that it is her tribe’s RIGHT to capture, enslave and sell members of other tribes. She regrets the good-old-days of the slave trade. The slaves sent to the States really ended up in the promised land, with the family jewels at that.

[Wonder Warthog]

"....bear any authentic sort of generational guilt for the exploitation of slave labor."

There's no such thing as "generational guilt" It's yet another fiction generated by the left. YOU/I are/am responsible for the sins YOU/I commit---not the ones your ancestors did.

[J Aguilar]

Still doesn't change the FACT that "the African slave trade was PIONEERED by Arab, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and other merchants long before the settlement of English North America"

Indeed, for the simple reason that Portuguese and Spaniards settled in America a century before the British. In the institution of slavery all took part: Spaniards, Portuguese, French (often forgotten), British, Arabs, Jews and Christians. The plantation system and popular revolts in the Southern colonies of North America made it especially hard there.

Nevertheless, the push to end the slavery came indeed from Britain and the Northern Colonies.

[TXnMA]

A big part of the problem:

...and the solution...

[jamaksin]

And lest we forget, going even further back ... Aesop was a slave.

[antinomian]

Really? The U.S. led the world in ending slavery. The roots of which began in England by the Christian evangelical movement.

The US did not lead the work in ending slavery. Britain did. In fact the US threatened war if Britain interfered with American shipping, which meant that the yankee financed transatlantic slave trade went on 50 years longer than it otherwise have.

The south quit the union mostly because of the prohibition of extending slavery into the free terretories. I suppose you would let that stand.

The south quit the union over the tariff.

Slavery did not end in the north because of happy thoughts. It ended because of economics. The same economic forces were working in the south and slavery would have inevitably ended there as well.

The northern states constructed manumission laws that encourages slave owners to sell their slaves down south rather that free them. They did this to reduce the black population and it largely worked. The southerners wanted to do something along those lines with the western territories.

Everybody knew slavery was going to come to an end. The real question was what to do with all of the blacks. South Carolina for example had a population that was about two thirds black. The whites weren't going to let them vote and take over the state. Lincoln several time proposed mass deportation but could never get congress to put up the money. What Lincoln and the Republicans refused to accept was blacks being resettled in the territories. They wanted to keep the blacks bottled up in the south until they could be gotten rid of somehow. Note that after the war the republican party gave away vast quantities of land in the west to corporations and settlers and even to foreigners immigrants, but nothing for the freed slaves.

[Non-Sequitur]

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[antinomian]

In many ways the U.S. was not a legitimate constitutional republic until after the 13th, 14th, 15th and 19th Amendments were passed.

I would argue that the 16th amendment effectively repealed the 13th. And that the incorporation doctrine applied to the 14th has effective ended any pretense of republicanism.

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!