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The Missing Half of the 1619 Project-How did the history of African slavery in the U.S. actually begin?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jun 8, 2021 | Bill Warner

Posted on 06/08/2021 6:16:03 AM PDT by SJackson

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1 posted on 06/08/2021 6:16:03 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Missing half? What is half of zero? What is half of a lie?


2 posted on 06/08/2021 6:17:40 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: rlmorel

There’s still a missing half, this article doesn’t cover it.

The British Empire’s role in bringing slavery to the 13 colonies.


3 posted on 06/08/2021 6:20:40 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: SJackson

Or the million Europeans that were enslaved by the same Muslim Africans from 1500 until Jefferson ended it.


4 posted on 06/08/2021 6:21:14 AM PDT by struggle
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To: SJackson

The Arabic word for slave and black is the same word.


5 posted on 06/08/2021 6:27:37 AM PDT by Nateman (If the Left Is not screaming , you are doing it wrong..)
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To: struggle

From 1500?

Far earlier than that!

The Muslim corsairs and galleys in the Mediterranean Sea were preying on the northern coast to gather Christian slaves from the 700s.

Do you know what happened to those Christian peoples who refused to submit when the Muslims conquered Syria, Egypt, North Africa and Spain? Dhimmies or slaves.


6 posted on 06/08/2021 6:27:56 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: SJackson

As posted in other comments about slavery and North America/USA from gannett and natgeo which are hardly conservative:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/02/08/USAT/53ab4194-48a7-4e3f-b0dc-234b1bd90c16-020819-slave-map_Online1_copy.png

http://blog.nationalgeographic.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/gitn_1027_Slave-Trade-2.png

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7 posted on 06/08/2021 6:29:34 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: SJackson

the race card and victim card are an excuse by losers to gain the unearned, the undeserved, and something for nothing


8 posted on 06/08/2021 6:30:33 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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None of this really occurred until Columbus landed in the Caribbean and the ‘gold rush’ started with Spaniards wanting to come into the region. Empty ships for a period of time made the trip back to Spain. This set up the sales of sugar cane/rum...which filled the vessel returning. But sugar cane requires massive numbers of farm labor. That only worked a year or two with local natives...then they all disappeared. So the next idea was the invention of the triangle-trade system....selling goods in Africa to tribal units with slaves in their possession, and then transporting to the new world.

New Orleans, under the control of the French was the first group to bring trade into the Americas. Around a decade later...tobacco farmers in Virginia region brought them in. In this period of early 1500s to early 1600s...it’s just not that many who were brought in Orleans or the eastern seaboard.


9 posted on 06/08/2021 6:31:29 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Alas Babylon!

I avoid mentioning religion. There was a large migration from Spain to northern provinces of Netherlands where the land could be flooded to thwart the Spanish. A majority of European ships were Nederlands until Cromwell put a stop to it. Next stop for these clever, vigorous migrants was New Amsterdam where they owned most of the slave ships in the triangular trade. They had Spanish & Portuguese surnames. I avoid the topic of religion. They weren’t Catholic


10 posted on 06/08/2021 6:33:58 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SJackson
He had sex slaves. Slavery is enshrined in Islamic doctrine and is still practiced today. But this part of the 1619 Project history is left out.

Inconvenient truths don’t make it into communist manifestos and historical contradictions receive air cover from the Slimes and the MSM

11 posted on 06/08/2021 6:35:37 AM PDT by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: SJackson

What about black tribes that sold other blacks?


12 posted on 06/08/2021 6:35:50 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: SJackson

There was no United States in 1619, so their premise is invalid.


13 posted on 06/08/2021 6:37:03 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The reflectance of my epidermis does not give anyone the right to assume anything about me.)
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To: CharlesOConnell

In ABC, Arruba, Bonaire & Curacao,the local language spoken by 800,000, Papiamento, “chatting”, is Spanish, West African, Portuguese, and Hebrew


14 posted on 06/08/2021 6:37:25 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SJackson

Same as Kwanzaa.

They make it up.


15 posted on 06/08/2021 6:38:36 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: struggle

Actually, slavery in Europe had died out (it’s economically unfeasible, the serf system was cheaper) until the late Middle Ages, when Muslim raiders made heavy attacks on shipping in the Mediterranean. At one point, there were hundreds of thousands of Europeans in captivity. Slavery had never died out in Muslim lands, and if the captives were not ransomed, they would be sold in the Islamic slave markets, either as sex slaves, if they were young boys or women, or simply as laborers.

Entire religious orders were started to ransom back poor captives, and private individuals began acting as brokers for wealthy families who wanted to ransom back a captured family member. This happened particularly in Portugal, which had been invaded by the Muslims and still maintained contact with the North African Muslim slavers. The brokers would get 20% (a Quinta) of the price...and it obviously occurred to some of the more unscrupulous that they could get into the slave trade themselves, buying enslaved Africans from the Muslims (who had either captured them or bought them from their own tribal chiefs) and then reselling them.

This reintroduced the practice to Europe. It was widespread, although some countries (such as Spain) prohibited true chattel slavery, which was the Islamic type of slavery where the slave was a possession with no human or legal rights. They adopted codes which essentially made the slave a long-term (although unwilling) indentured servant. This meant the slave had certain rights, such as the right to marry, receive religious instruction, earn wages and buy his freedom or be freed by his owner. However, this was not always practiced and some countries, such as Portugal and England, seem to have ignored it altogether and gone all the way into chattel slavery and the buying and selling of slaves, Islamic style.

So we see the fingerprints of Islam all over slavery, even in its reintroduction to Europe and its extension to the US. The only good thing we got out of it was the establishment of the US Marines, formed to fight back against renewed Muslim piracy and slave-taking in the Mediterranean.


16 posted on 06/08/2021 6:42:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: Harpotoo

I believe the current thinking is that the black warrior tribes that enslaved and sold other blacks were “white adjacent,” and that this is just another expression of white supremacy and systemic racism.


17 posted on 06/08/2021 6:42:52 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: SJackson

Who sold the slaves to bring over?
Africa and Muslim nations still have slavery.
The native American Indians had slaves captured from other tribes.

Who stopped it all.. WHITE MEN 😁😁

That’s some privilege right there!!


18 posted on 06/08/2021 6:43:04 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: capydick

When the only narrative you want is white man bad,any kind of truth gums up the lies....


19 posted on 06/08/2021 6:44:11 AM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: ProgressingAmerica; rlmorel
ProgressingAmerica :" There’s still a missing half, this article doesn’t cover it.
The British Empire’s role in bringing slavery to the 13 colonies.

True enough, but that's not where it actually began !
Slavery began as inter-tribal warfare in Africa - that's where it began, and occurred !
Warfare is a strategy of economic or geo-location conquest, with the losers either killed or inducted involuntarily into slavery to the winner.
It wasn't until African tribes learned that the British were willing to pay for slaves as workers that there was any profit motivation.
All this talk of "reparations" is directed at the "Deep Pockets" of whomever is deemed the cause of slavery,
when in fact, slavery began during tribal warfare in Africa, but since many of these areas are 'dirt poor', reparations payment is directed for financial retribution.
In other words, reparations should be realistically directed at African tribes, when slaves became an economic commodity.
Ask 'Commie-la' where and how her grandfather got enriched ..

20 posted on 06/08/2021 6:44:40 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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