“to observe the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery”
I assume they mean “North American” - since the US really began when the treaty ended the American Revolution (1783) - and 80 years later slavery was outlawed in the Emancipation Proclamation. In 4 years, it will be twice as long (160 years) since we outlawed slavery - and we’ll still hear the same nonsensical excuses as to why certain people can’t flourish in the country that offers the most opportunity to people from around the world.
From 1619 to 1655, while there were blacks in Virginia, they came as indentured servants, not slaves. They were to work for 7 years, and then they were free men, able to go out and acquire their own land on the same terms as anyone else.
In Johnson v. Parker (1655), Johnson successfully argued that his Negro servant, John Casor, should be considered his slave for life. From that point on, there was black slavery in Virginia.
The reason why you don't hear very much about this case, is that Anthony Johnson was black. He was one of the first blacks to arrive in Virginia in 1619.
O God, how I hate these People, the New York slimes. If I had the supernatural power I would incinerate them all to ashes tomorrow
The New Yuk Slimes?
The writing will undoubtedly be mostly Bullshit. Furgitabutit !
The New Yuk Slimes?
The writing will undoubtedly be mostly Bullshit. Furgitabutit !
Like so many politicians, too stupid to know we don’t have a “democracy”.....it’s a Constitutional Republic.
NY times is total Bullshit.....
“Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.”
All this time, we have been assured that blacks have been oppressed and denied a voice in this country, so how could this be?
Also, we have been lately assured that immigrants have built this country without any contribution of a native born population and that the country cannot develop further without a flood of more immigrants.
The whole problem with this New York Slimes stories (and that is what they are just “stories”) is that there was slavery in North America BEFORE 1619!
Native Americans were taken as slaves as early as the 1580’s!
The first slaves in North America were actually brought by the Portuguese who were sailing them to South America, but their ship was pirated away and the cargo was sold to the Caribbean islands!
The New York Slimes attempted to generate a narrative, but their history, their timelines and just about everything in these stories is incorrect or simply lies! They are trying to make black slavery as the “real” start of America, but America was here well before blacks hit these shores! And slavery was here well before blacks hit these shores! They try to make it sound like slavery was an integral part of ALL of America, when in fact, two parts of America (which would later become two individual states) outlawed slavery before we even finished fighting the American Revolution!
So they will be talking about the British empire and the Irish they sent here to work as slaves I suppose....along with Obama’s ancestors who rounded up Africans to sell off as slaves.
The devil must be having a grand olde time at the sh!tstorm known as the New York Times ...
Nice to see a little bit of pushback on “democracy.” Next, push back on the idea that universal suffrage is healthy for a republic.
Normal, sane people would celebrate the END of slavery. People who hate this country are compelled to keep reminding us of slavery for the next 10 centuries.
But they forget about m*slims holding slaves today.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, you areone stupid bitch. The USA is not a democracy, it is a Republic.
You can look it up, and see the difference.
A democracy is mob rule, like Chicago or Baltimore.
A Republic has more respect for the rule of law, not the daily wants of which ever mob has the loudest screams.
“Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, our democracy today would most likely look very different — it might not be a democracy at all.”
Yeah, it might become a *shudder* Constitutional Republic. Sorry, no sale on 1619. First one to argue FOR chattle slavery was a black man. He won his arguement. Not my fault, not my guilt.
It figures the NYT would suppress the fact that the court case establishing the legality of slavery in the U.S. was brought by a black man.
And it isn't. It is a republic as it always has been.
Those early slaves in 1619 that The New York Times focuses on arrived on the San Juan Bautista. If that name doesn’t sound English, that’s because it isn’t. It was a Portuguese ship en route to Spanish Mexico. Off the coast of Mexico, it was attacked and captured by English pirates masquerading as Dutch. They sold their enslaved human cargo at Jamestown.
Slavery is no more ‘native’ to the American experience than, well, anything.
Ms Hannah-Jones, my 8 year old son could ask you the difference between a Republic and a Democracy? I bet you don’t know since you said we are a Democracy, but we are a REPUBLIC, you liberal nutcase!