Posted on 06/20/2022 2:54:51 PM PDT by DFG
Vice President Kamala Harris bungled a history lesson about the Juneteenth holiday Monday, telling kids that black people were enslaved in America for 400 years — overstating the actual time period by more than 150 years.
“I think that we all know today is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom,” Harris told a group of about two dozen elementary school-aged children at the National Museum of African American History & Culture in Washington. “And think about it in terms of the context of history, knowing that black people in America were not free for 400 years of slavery.”
“Let this be a day that is a day to celebrate the principle of freedom, but to speak about it honestly and accurately, both in the context of history and current application,” Harris went on during her apparently extemporaneous remarks.
The first African slaves in what became the American colonies arrived in 1619 in Virginia. Slavery was abolished through the 13th Amendment, which was ratified in 1865 — ending 246 years of the practice, not 400.
A White House official acknowledged Harris’ error, telling The Post that “the vice president was referring to 400 years since slavery began.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Apparently it was outlawed in 2019.
Well, if you only consider European slavery Harris has no idea what she is talking about. Spanish and Portuguese brought slave to the new world long before it occurred to the English. The Spanish had black slaves in Florida long before 1619. 1619 is meaningless Bull manure. https://www.history.com/news/american-slavery-before-jamestown-1619
Dumbass KH was Willie Brown’s slave, as in sex slave. She didn’t mind that toad getting on top of her.
I know what you are talking about, something or other Wilson, a freeman, who went to court to make his indentured african servant a perpetual slave. However, the "First people" and MesoAmericans practiced slavery long before the arrival of Columbus. Powhatten, father of Pocahantus, had slaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States
"Several tribes held captives as hostages for payment.[2][3] Various tribes also practiced debt slavery or imposed slavery on tribal members who had committed crimes; full tribal status would be restored as the enslaved worked off their obligations to the tribal society.[2][3] Obtaining prisoners was also a strong interest for Native American warriors as for the qualification of being considered brave this was especially an interest of male warriors in various tribes.[2] Other slave-owning tribes of North America included the Comanche of Texas; the Creek of Georgia; the fishing societies, such as the Yurok, who lived in Northern California; the Pawnee; and the Klamath.[8] When St. Augustine, Florida, was founded in 1565, the site already had enslaved Native Americans, whose ancestors had migrated from Cuba.[2]
The Haida and Tlingit, who lived along Alaska's southeast coast, were traditionally known as fierce warriors and slave-traders, raiding as far as California.[9][10] In their society, slavery was hereditary after slaves were taken as prisoners of war[9][10]—children of slaves were fated to be slaves themselves.[11] Among a few Pacific Northwest tribes, as many as one-fourth of the population were slaves.[9][10] They were typically captured by raids on enemy tribes, or purchased on inter-tribal slave markets. Slaves would sometimes be killed in potlatches, to signify the owners' contempt for property. "
Sounds reasoned...
Smile...
Yes, that’s certainly a possibility.
Yeah, could be. I doubt it, because they lie all the time.
To them actual claims don’t have to be factual.
[NY Post] The first African slaves in what became the American colonies arrived in 1619 in Virginia.
The first slaves in what became the American colonies arrived in 1526 in Florida, in a location near present day Sapelo Island, Georgia. This is inconvenient for the misnamed 1619 project. It appears it should have been named the 1526 Project.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_V%C3%A1zquez_de_Ayll%C3%B3n
Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón[a] (c. 1480[1] – 18 October 1526) was a Spanish magistrate and explorer who in 1526 established the short-lived San Miguel de Gualdape colony, one of the first European attempts at a settlement in what is now the United States. Ayllón's account of the region inspired a number of later attempts by the Spanish and French governments to colonize the southeastern United States. ...
Of course, it is worth noting that every 16th century Spanish expedition to Florida included Africans, both free and enslaved. The first recorded slaves to reach La Florida arrived in late September 1526 as part of the Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón expedition. Ayllón brought as many as 100 slaves to support a new Spanish settlement, which he named San Miguel de Gualdape (near present-day Sapelo Island, Ga.). The short-lived colony endured for less than two months; many of the slaves rebelled and by November 1526 the settlement was abandoned.
1526 was also the year of the first slave rebellion.
...has been debunked...
Thanks.
1619 + 400 = 2019. So it looks like President Donald Trump ended slavery in the USA during his term. And got that taken care of just before Covid. Thanks, President Trump!
The media controls the narrative!
Yup. And did the NYT give him any credit for it at the time? Nooooo...
HAHAHAHAHA!
And it is my understanding that her ancestors owned Irish slaves — who were treated a lot worse than the blacks.
No one wants to talk about that.
Wonder why?
Actually there was a 1400 year period that white Europeans were enslaved by Muslims from about the 600 AD period on into the early 20th century. Let’s discuss that, shall we?
HISTORY: Not all slaves were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, nor via Juneteenth. Only the slaves of the REBEL states were freed then. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was a wartime effort to split and weaken the South; he did NOT free any slaves in the Northern states. Slaves in the non-rebelling border states had to wait for the 13th Amendment, effective December 18, 1865.
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