My yet-to-be-learned lesson – and perhaps that of Rep. Hubbard – is that there are certain topics or arguments that one should not bring up in the presence of children or those with little understanding.
bfl
Another great fact about slavery: 1 million white folk were put into slavery by the Barbary pirates (Africans).
What is also not taught is the fact that arab-muslim slavers and other black tribes captured fellow blacks and sold them at the coast to the Europeans. They were sold off into slavery by their own kind and that this slave trade long predated the European slave market. There are documented narratives of freed slaves making their way back to africa and becoming wealthy and powerful slave traders themselves. Want reparations? Go first and sieze the assets of the democrat party and then to the african tribes who are still there and either still in the slave trade or honor their slave trading past. Some of the real history of the slave trade was first published in the early 1800s.
We went into slavery a piece of property; we came out American citizens. We went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery without a language; we came out speaking the proud Anglo-Saxon tongue. We went into slavery with slave chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
~~ Booker T. Washington
Could God still bless America with a President of the stature and intellect of Walter Williams?
That would be the American Dream!
Well, two of the OTHER untold “facts” of slavery are:
1) Slavery - of infidels - is STILL approved of in Islam and actively ENCOURAGED by Mohammad and the biggest slavers in history were Muslims.
2) North American black slaves had it MUCH better than their less fortunate brothers and sisters who were sent to the ‘Sugar Islands” and Central and South America. The mortality there was SO high that a continued supply of replacement slaves was necessary to maintain the workforce, while in North America, slaves were able to maintain their numbers under less deadful circumstances.
America fought a LONG and BLOODY war which imposed horrible sufferings on the slave-holding population of the South and Southerners in general, as well as familes in the North.
We MORE THAN PAID any debt we owed over this many times over.
This article is BS, you can tell by the number of blacks waiting for visas to move to Africa.
Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama is trying to get them back............
bkmk
The biggest secret the liberals won’t tell school kids: A black man, Anthony Johnson, won a court battle to enslave John Casor for life, making Anthony Johnson, a black man, the first black slave holder in the new world.
John Milton wrote that it was better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. So how anyone can look at slavery and say that it was in any way beneficial to the slave passes all understanding. We are not meant to be someone’s property, no matter how much benefit to future generations are attributed to it. As humans, regardless of race, our natural state is to be free. To make our own decisions and be masters of our own fate, regardless of surroundings. And for someone claiming to be a conservative, a political theory whose guiding principles are freedom and liberty, to speak well of slavery is an absolute disgrace. He is no conservative, not in my book.
Not that the wonderful Walter Williams isn't worth repeating :-)
Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940).
Hine disguised himself as a salesman or other and gained entrance to cotton mills, often in the South. He then took photographs outside of the mill of the children employed there. A horror story. Kids were even only eight an nine years old, both male and female. Conditions were awful and bad health abounded. Hours were often sixty and seventy hours a week.
It took until 1916 to pass the Keating-Owen act to protect children more stringently.
Didn’t Muhammad Ali (or maybe he was still Cassius Marcellus Clay at the time) say something about being glad his forebearers got on that boat?