Posted on 08/21/2019 7:04:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes, we should have picked our own damn cotton.
Labor-saving cotton-picking technology would probably have been invented faster, the South would have had much more investment in non-agricultural production and a more diverse economy, economic conditions would have been more aligned throughout the United States, there would not have been a "kept" political class beholden to a system of relatively few wealthy slave-holders (or there would have been competing political interests), average working-class whites and farmers would have been much better off, and the civil war would probably never have happened.
WUT?! You mean we weren’t perfect from day one and still aren’t and never will be? I’m shocked I tell ya! Hey nyt, FOAD!
NYT and the Dem Thug Party knows it lost a good chunk of the so-called minority vote. And it only has the false charge of racism to offer.
The Dems are nasty, depraved scum.
It was not the USA that practiced slavery. It was a British colony. The USA abolished slavery.
Natives Americans enslaved other Native Americans.
Europeans arrived (primarily from the British Empire) and brought African slaves over.
The British had African slaves here for 150 years.
Americans didn’t like the immoral and tyrannical policies of the British Empire. We rejected them, rebelled and broke away.
It took us almost 90 years, but we eventually cleaned up the mess that the British had made, and we established a country where all people are free. That was over 150 years ago.
So, how are we the bad guys?
‘It was not the USA that practiced slavery. It was a British colony. The USA abolished slavery.’
The USA abolished slavery 50 years after the British abolished slavery.
It always irks me that blacks actually believe black soldiers were placed in the front lines b/c whites wanted them killed first.
Black soldiers were in the front lines b/c they were the bravest, the best, the most courageous soldiers.....demonstrating to the enemy that our army was to be feared.
The framers of the Constitution DID try to abolish slavery but there simply weren’t enough votes to ratify it. But they and their political heirs NEVER STOPPED TRYING TO END SLAVERY.
For some reason, that doesn’t count to them. To hear liberals, you would think that white colonists in America invented slavery.
RE: What many revisionists and liberals fail to understand is that slavery existed on this continent long before white men set foot on it.
Yes.
See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
FIRST PARAGRAPH:
Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by Native Americans as well as slavery of Native Americans roughly within the present-day United States. Tribal territories and the slave trade ranged over present-day borders. Some Native American tribes held war captives as slaves prior to and during European colonization, some Native Americans were captured and sold by others into slavery to Europeans while others were captured by Europeans and sold into slavery, and a small number of tribes, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, adopted the practice of holding slaves as chattel property and held increasing numbers of African-American slaves.
Pre-contact forms of slavery were generally distinct from the form of chattel slavery developed by Europeans in North America during the colonial period.
Also, Native American Indians OWNED BLACK SLAVES!
SEE HERE:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_slave_ownership
The Ministry of Propaganda continues to undermine America and the ideals for which she was founded.
Correct, Islam still practices slavery, but the Ministry of Propaganda will never mention that.
Ping
Isn’t it interesting that the British anti-slavery movement gained traction only AFTER Britain lost the American colonies where Britain had done its best to foster slavery. (Including transport and sale of slaves by the Royal Africa Company, owned in part by the royal family). Of course, the cotton mills of Manchester were fed by slave grown cotton, creating a demand that fueled the expansion of slavery into the west, which occasioned repeated crises for the US, ultimately leading to secession.
The civil war ended in 1865, 154 years ago.
It’s time to get over the fantasy that slaves built the USA.
It is safe to say that the America we know today was built AFTER the end of the civil war by free people - not by slaves.
At the end of the war the entire US population was about 31 million.
About 13% were black.
Since then we have added about 300 million people.
About 14% are black.
In 1865 the population of NY City was less than 1 million.
Today it is about 8.5 million.
Slaves didn’t build the NY City skyscrapers, subways, streets, railroads and other infrastructure we see today.
In 1865 the population of California was about 400,000.
Today it is about 40 million - about 100 times larger.
Slaves didn’t build the infrastructure that supports 40 million people.
Many migrant groups have come to the USA since the end of the civil war.
In general, they all started poor and, until recent years, without government welfare.
Yet just about every group climbed past blacks on the economic ladder within a generation or two.
Many smart, industrious and talented blacks have succeeded just as well.
But the majority of blacks seem to be stuck on the democrat plantation rendered stagnant and hopeless by the racist fantasy that their lowly existence is the fault of white people who have kept them down for over 150 years.
It’s time for blacks to stop listening to democrat racist clap-trap that they can’t raise themselves up on their own hard work.
Blacks will do well When they get smart, get educated, learn to speak understandable English, get married before having offspring, and STOP WHINING.
There are many successful blacks who serve as excellent examples of what they can achieve.
If they get to work like others they will raise themselves out of poverty and gain wealth and independence the same way hundreds of millions of other Americans have.
Same paper that covered up the millions of people being starved to death in Russia and the holocaust from the Nazi’s.
Both countries run by socialists.
“The USA abolished slavery.”
76 years after the Constitution was ratified
‘To insist that southern colonies immediately free their slaves would have been tantamount to demanding they destroy the economic livelihood of the entire region.’
One’s economic livelihood does not justify holding people in slavery.
RE: One’s economic livelihood does not justify holding people in slavery.
I understand that. But I believe the author is saying that freeing the slaves IMMEDIATELY would have been impractical.
Gradual emancipation would have been a better idea ( too bad it never happened ).
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