Digs unearth slave plantations in North

"It's hard to believe that such a significant and pervasive part of the past could be so completely erased from our history."

It's not hard for me to believe. It was erased for the same reason as the South's reason for fighting was erased, to make the North look good.

Hmmmm...interesting.

Why did sounthern blacks escape and head north if not for freedom?

They headed North alright, to Canada.

The Underground Railroad, the most dramatic nonviolent protest against slavery in the United States, began in the colonial era and reached its peak between 1830 and 1865. An estimated 30,000 to 100,000 slaves used the "railroad" to get to Canada; many others escaped to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Ping, y'all.

I'm more than a little suspicious of the timing of this "new discovery." The involvement of many members of the Northern merchant class in the slave trade has been well known for many years.

You can BET that Jesse Jackson, Sharpton and the rest of the race pimps will now use this "new discovery" to say "See, slavery was even MORE widespread here than we thought. White America needs to pay us MORE REPARATIONS!"

Trust me on this.
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I consider Alan Keyes, Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams possessed of three of the finest minds extant today. In case you don’t know them, all are black.

So far as I can tell, Keyes, Sowell and Williams oppose this idiotic call for reparations.

Those who are NOT descended from AMERICAN slaves need to sit down and shut up. Under even the most tortured, leftist, idiotic (redundant!) logic (oxymoron!), these people have no standing. And those who ARE descendants of slaves now calling for reparations need to remember a few things:

They should not only be glad to be in America, they should be glad to be ON THE PLANET! Had their forebears NOT been sold to the slave traders, the blood of their ancestors would have run into the earth over there several centuries ago. Their ancestors would have been killed outright or worked to death by the OTHER black tribes who captured them in one of the interminable tribal wars still raging on that sad continent. These modern day would-be "plaintiffs" would not even exist.

And should the great-great-great grandchildren of the approximately 3,000 SLAVE OWNING BLACK plantation owners in this country also be subject to PAYING reparations?

If so, how do we find THEM?

Robert Hitt Neill tells of attending a Tennessee Mountain Writer’s Conference years ago with several other authors. Among them was Alex Hailey, celebrated author of “Roots.” Watching a TV news show, a group of them watched a demonstration in a Southern state against the “Rebel” flag incorporated into that state’s flag. The very next report covered a famine in Africa. Graphic images showed dead bodies, starving children with distended tummies and runny noses and dying people covered with flies, too weak to brush them away.

Mr. Hailey intoned in a low, serious voice:
“Every time an American black sees a story like that, they should find a Confederate flag and kiss it.” He then pointed to the TV screen and continued, “Because these would be me and my descendants, except for American slavery. I thank God that my family and I are here instead of there.”

What about the millions STILL living in slavery, held there by members of THEIR OWN RACE in Africa and elsewhere today?

Do you suppose THEY are NOT targets of these reparations whores because they have little or nothing of value for which they can be EXTORTED?

And how about the MILLIONS of WHITES and ASIANS who have slavery in their backgrounds?

And I have SLAVIC roots on my dad’s side. Does anyone have Johnnie Cochran’s number – PHONE number, that is. Past time for ME to sue someone for MY reparations.

Next problem!

there were LOTS of slaves in the north until 1866. that was a YEAR after Richmond fell; GEN Grant was ONE of those slaveowners.

free dixie,sw

So an archeology industry of this sort grew to suck up the available $$, and stories like this are created to justify the ongoing existence of such requirements.

thanks for the info. Makes perfect sense.