However the liberal definition of Racist is : a white person, (even though other blacks in Africa captured the descendents of "african americans" and sold them to french slave traders who then sold them to white plantation owners as slaves, (yet white men died to set them free)and the white american slave owners treated them better than any other slave owners in the history of the world
“Black people (just like the racist Reverend Obama) can be some of the most vile and profound examples of racism.”
I have always found blacks to be the most racist, on a whole, of any other group or race on the planet.
I haven’t ever owned slaves, my parents (rest their souls) never owned slaves, my GRANDPARENTS never owned slaves, Yet, it is interesting that I am blamed as if I, and all my family, continue to own, and mistreat, slaves.
I won’t go so far as to vouch for the treatment received by American slaves, but I do think it is time American Blacks eased up on the race blaming game. I look forward to the day blacks are able to honestly vote for a candidate because they agree with his politics, rather than simply because he is black. I will probably never see that day, hopefully my kids will.
Muslim traders actually enslaved the Africans, with the help of African chiefs. Wish more blacks were aware of that.
Not an unmixed truth.
Manumission was extremely common for Roman slaves. It included Roman citizenship, a huge perk. The children of freedmen were accepted fully as Romans and could even become senators or political leaders. That contrasts poorly with the permanent color line in the American south.
OTOH, Roman slaves could be, and often were, crucified or tortured to death at their master's whim. On the other other hand, there was very little to prevent an American slave owner from doing the same.
To be fair, slaves were better treated in South Carolina than in Brazil or Jamaica largely because they were more valuable. The closer you were to the source, the less slaves cost and the more you could afford to kill them off with mistreatment and buy new ones.