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Survey Finds Many Americans Believe White People Invented Slavery
Skeptic Research Center/X ^ | Mar 3, 2026 | Skeptic Research Center

Posted on 09/19/2026 10:11:09 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

The Skeptic Research Center's 2024 study of over 3,000 U.S. adults showed majorities of Hispanic (59%), Black (69%), and Asian (55%) women, plus many men in those groups, selected 'true' for the statement, compared to lower rates among white respondents. Liberal millennials led at 55%, while even 31% of graduate degree holders agreed; the same group held misconceptions about incomes and college admissions. Slavery existed for millennia worldwide, from ancient Mesopotamia to Africa and the Americas, long before the race-based transatlantic trade driven by Europeans. The findings spotlight gaps in understanding slavery's global history amid America's pivotal role in its abolition.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: indoctrination; slavery

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Indoctrination in the government schools is highly successful.

Graphs included, additional graphs here:

https://x.com/SkepResCenter/status/1851135336526553388

1 posted on 09/19/2026 10:11:09 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Survey Finds Many Americans Stoopid and uninformed.


2 posted on 09/19/2026 10:13:25 AM PDT by rktman (Patriotism not 'hateriotism' !. Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🇺🇸)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Watched the Russian film Alexander Nevsky not long back. First scene is of Russian and Slavs being take as slaves to Mongolia by Mongolian guards.


3 posted on 09/19/2026 10:15:42 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL HOSPITALS! Closed in the 1970s, murders by crazies sky rocketed!)
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Slavery predates humans.

Certain species of ants raid other ants hills and carry them away as slaves.

Any time you have a species that works they are going to start eyeing others as cheap labor.

4 posted on 09/19/2026 10:16:21 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I just want FReepers to READ THE ARTICLE. And then think 30 secs before pounding keyboard.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

And anything of a positive nature that was invented by whites was in reality stolen from the black man. /sarc


5 posted on 09/19/2026 10:16:29 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Watched the Russian film Alexander Nevsky not long back.


Interesting, that it was made when Stalin was emphasizing Russian Nationalism, despite his Georgian background.

Lenin would have been appalled.


6 posted on 09/19/2026 10:17:53 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: rktman

Yes you can tell who they are they have a Yugo up on block in the back yard.


7 posted on 09/19/2026 10:21:09 AM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
No surprise at all, apart from the level of historical ignorance that's necessary to believe such nonsense. Even watching cheesy epic films set in ancient Egypt should be sufficient to remind people of the fact that slavery was not only ubiquitous but the norm pretty much in all early civilizations, never mind the fact that we still hear about one African tribe capturing and enslaving members of other tribes to this day.

Basically, our schools and universities teach that every social ill was created by white people while every scientific, technological and social advance is either ignored, glossed over, or attributed to non-whites.

8 posted on 09/19/2026 10:25:32 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Because we needed cheap labor after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.


9 posted on 09/19/2026 10:33:50 AM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: T.B. Yoits

Tax and debt slavery...


10 posted on 09/19/2026 10:33:54 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
"Alexander Nevsky" — That's a great movie, with a great film score.
11 posted on 09/19/2026 10:37:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Unionized woke public education is doing its job!


12 posted on 09/19/2026 10:39:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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"Alexander Nevsky" — That's a great movie, with a great film score

Probably one of the best film scores ever written - one of the few that really works well (in my opinion) as a stand-alone concert piece rather than just as an accompaniment to movie scenes.

13 posted on 09/19/2026 10:40:04 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Vaduz

Yes you can tell who they are they have a Yugo up on block in the back yard.


....and they drive with pride!


14 posted on 09/19/2026 10:40:08 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ProgressingAmerica

My grandmother, an Irish orphan, was an indentured servant until she was 16 when my grandfather paid $100 for her and married her. That was 1891, long after black slavery ended. She raised the children of a wealthy Cherokee Indian family.


15 posted on 09/19/2026 10:41:09 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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“Certain species of ants raid other ants hills and carry them away as slaves.”

I was going to say there is archeological evidence of slavery going back 10s of thousands of years but you got me beat on that.


16 posted on 09/19/2026 10:42:36 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
It was pretty much standard practice in the ancient world that following a battle, the victor would take the captured enemy soldiers back home as slaves.

When (Semitic) Egyptians fought (Black) Nubians, the Nubians took Egyptian prisoners as slaves and vice-versa. The same was true when the Egyptians fought (Indo-European) Hittites. I'm sure liberals will claim that it was the Indo-European ("white") Hittites who invented the concept.

17 posted on 09/19/2026 10:42:37 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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I've heard the stand alone "Alexander Nevsky" film score many times and agree with you 100%. Great music. And a great true story.

18 posted on 09/19/2026 10:43:47 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: rktman

Unfortunately.


19 posted on 09/19/2026 10:44:35 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: PGR88

And not in a good way.


20 posted on 09/19/2026 10:44:55 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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