Nice brief history lesson there, however I disagree with the assumption that counting slaves as a whole person would have been bad for them.
I appreciate Dr Williams.
Slavery continues today, in Africa. Arabs buy and sell black Africans. Today.
Where is the outrage?
Where is the media coverage?
Slavery in the US was the best thing that ever happened to any black back the IE: how in hell did 15 or 20 WASP herd 2 to 3 herded blacks into a very small ship.....blacks should ask themselves how did this happen....and, another thing in the slave era more blacks owned blacks than whites did.......I bet that get someones dander up but check it out....it’s true.
A lot of these idiot liberal morons think the USA INVENTED slavery.
I have to keep telling them that it was a way of life before the USA led the world in eliminating it.
You went to Africa to buy slaves because that is where the slave store was. People sold themselves into slavery. Indentured Servants was the nice name for slavery.
Bkmk
The very first slave in the early colonies were the Irish and Scots. Read about it at Williamsburg.
The very first slave in the early colonies were the Irish and Scots. Read about it at Williamsburg.
What a shock! From media reports since the 1950s anyone without access to history books would have believed that slavery was a specifically American invention, created by evil white men. I suppose that’s what’s still taught in Black Studies departments around the country.
When Rome conquered and occupied part of England, the Irish used to come across and take English slaves.
When the Romans left, the Irish came more often for slaves.
I’m not of Irish or English descent.
Years ago there was a PBS program on how the evil Europeans started the slave trade and other evils inflicted upon Africa.
The claim was it was started by Europeans because there is no descendants of black slaves anywhere in the Middle East.
But HERE is why, the Arabs castrated their male slaves.
Another point missed in the liberal “discussion” of slavery guilt in the USofA (not even approaching HISTORY) is the blatant fact that only about 5% of these poor wretches came to what became the USofA! To blame the same for all of the transgressions is just typical LEFTISM!