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Only seven states have abolished prisoner slavery in 160 years, that means 43 states and the federal government condone the practice.
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A woman tells the history of slavery in her family
Slavery Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents Influential Novels (Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs etc.)
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Slavery Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten – The Most Powerful Slave Narratives, Historical Documents Influential Novels (Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs etc.)
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Joe Biden: The original sin of slavery.
Julian Castro: The original sin of slavery.
John Stossel: Today Americans are taught, when it comes to slavery, America was the worst.
"The Atlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas was different from any other type of slavery."
"The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody, we created it."
Stossel: American slavery was worse because:
"The slaves were reduced to property. They were chattel property. No other system of slavery did that except American slavery."
Wilfred Reilly: That's complete nonsense.
Stossel: Wilfred Reilly is a political science professor, and author of “Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.”
Reilly: Generational slavery, like if you're the son of a slave, you're a slave, that was extraordinarily common. Slavery around the world was slavery.
Stossel: Books like this, "Unfinished Nation."
Reilly: Yeah.
Stossel: "Slaves in Africa were kept unfree only for a fixed term."
Reilly: No, is the short answer. Most of the slaves taken by these sort of players would be either kept a slave for their entire life, or, more likely, sold to the whites and the Arabs in two years.
Stossel: Today, partly thanks to the New York Times “1619 Project" students are taught that “America’s slavery was unlike anything that had existed before.”
Reilly: We're the worst society ever. We've done things that no one else has ever done. And sometimes, there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging your historical mistakes. I mean, I'm black, Irish, a bit Native American at least per the family lore. I mean those are three peoples who have experienced a great deal historically. Nothing wrong with acknowledging that. But it's extremely odd to focus only on the negatives of your society and to exaggerate those.
Stossel: Americans are taught that slavers caught people in Africa and shipped them here, but few are taught that most slaves were not shipped to the United States.
Reilly: Between 10.7 million and 12 million slaves from Africa went to the New World. We got a little under 400,000.
Stossel: Under 400,000 out of 10 million.
Reilly: The extreme focus on slavery in the United States, why did that happen? One reason is that a lot of black people survived here. Slavery was harsh, but it was a lot less harsh than clearing the Brazilian jungle.
Stossel: All right, but American blacks are at a disadvantage. They have less capital, financial and educational capital. What's the harm in pointing out how abusive white people were?
Reilly: The harm is that pointing out how abusive white people were is not going to get black Americans any more capital. Most of the problems in the modern black community don't have anything to do with historical ethnic conflict 160 years ago.
Lyndon Johnson: The Great Society asks not how much, but how good.
Stossel: Reilly says most of the problems began when welfare began.
Reilly: Crime in the black community every time I’ve tried to break this down increased about 800% between, say, 1963 and 1993. Racism didn't increase between 1960 and the modern era. You're looking at the impacts of the Great Society, the welfare programs.
Stossel: Reilly argues it’s better to teach the truth, that almost every society had slavery. The Aztecs, the Persians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Vikings, and most of all, the Arab world.
Reilly: The Arabs were probably history's premier slave traders.
Stossel: Sometimes they captured poor whites from Slavic countries.
Reilly: The Muslims many of whom were dark-skinned or even black, took so many blonde slaves out of this region that they gave the world “Slav,” slave, to the global slave population.
Stossel: Many slaves were forced into harems.
Reilly: Sexual slavery was a very much a part of slavery. Like if your group was defeated in war, the men would probably just be killed or they'd be sold as farmhands. The women would often be sold as harem girls or prostitutes.
Stossel: More than a million Europeans were enslaved. But Muslim slave traders took more people from Africa.
Reilly: The Arabs targeting Africa took out about 17 million people.
Stossel: The British and then the Americans were the rare people who moved to abolish slavery.
Reilly: So, yeah, the British Navy, in a story almost no one now knows, sank 1600 slave ships. It freed 150,000 people that were enslaved at the time.
Stossel: Because the Brits objected for moral reasons.
Reilly: Yeah, they'd had enough of it.
Stossel: Saudi Arabia only abolished the slave trade relatively recently.
Reilly: Well, that's another inconvenient fact, right?
Stossel: The Global Slavery Index estimates that even now, although slavery is “officially” illegal, there are more than 700,000 slaves in Saudi Arabia.
Reilly: Where there were no westerners, you’d have a lot of slavery for a long time. And you do.
Stossel: American slavery was horrible. But it wasn’t unique. Our culture would be healthier if we learned about that. And schools dwelling on America’s evils, hasn’t helped Americans get over them. Gallup polls show after schools started focusing on oppression, race relations got worse.
Reilly: The idea of generational slavery, the idea of slave trading, none of that was unique to America. And another thing, you don’t need radicalism to critique the worst excesses of an existing system. All you need is incrementalism and honesty.
Stossel: In a few weeks, I’ll post a video about another of Reilly’s myths. The claim that before Columbus, the native people, were kind stewards of the environment.
Pocahontas: "I know every rock and tree and creature has a life, has a spirit, has a name."
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This is what modern American exceptionalism looks like.
The "original sin" framing is very telling, given that Xian churches use lies and ignorance too, to keep people people guilty, ashamed, manipulatable and exploitable for things they didn't do.
I think it’s very clear that a section of the fandom thinks that using violence to avenge personal wrongs, or because you think the Iron Throne is legally yours, or to advance one’s family is legitimate, but using violence to liberate people is wrong. But Daenerys’ war against the slavers is the most justified and only necessary war in the series.
Murder, human trafficking, and torture, are acts just as horrifying when carried out at the institutional level, as at the individual level. Calling such things the “trade” does not sanitise them.
The Great Masters were not a bunch of innocent bystanders, who had no idea what was taking place in their state. They were the leaders of that society, and they bore responsibility for the crimes of that State.
A Great Master has a higher guilt level than an ordinary sadist does. The latter breaks the laws of his society. The former creates and enforces laws that enable atrocities.
I doubt if one reader in a hundred does anything other than cheer at Frey Pies, or the deaths of Gregor Clegane, Chiswick, the Tickler, or Raff the Sweetling; or would do anything other than cheer if Ramsay was subject to one of his own hunts, or the Freys were scoured off the earth. So why should the child-murdering slave owners be any different ?
It’s easy enough to say “violence is never the way”, but that’s an argument that comes from a place of great comfort, and little danger.
You know, just to name a few things that show that the legal/collective actions to ensure slavery kept going were inextricably supported and reinforced by personal altercations and vice versa.
LINK #1
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1pwt69x.7?ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&seq=2
LINK#2
redress & reparations movements
LINK#3
Abstract. Chapter Three moves to the Illinois Country (Upper Louisiana) in 1748 and explores the contentious relationship between two enslav
And finally, Howard Zinn's Book, A People's History, 1492 to present:
When I finished working the other night I tweeted the current state of the map of slavery that I had been making. Anthea Butler retweeted it
Good visualization of US Slave Culture.
Wealth Concentration of extreme Plutocracy/oligarchy.
Plantation owner controlled their counties as total dictators.
Enslaved seen legally as livestock, working animals and listed in inventories with horses, mules, oxen, usually without name only gender and age. Dehumanization necessary to maintain this slave cuture.
Enslaver with 50 or more enslaved exempt from military draft.
No law to protect enslaved.
Hundred of laws bound the enslaved.
No laws bound the enslavers.
Orange-Red counties =Epstein Island.
Sex trafficking -Sexual Slavery normalized.
Descendent and supporters of slave culture currently control all three branches of the US government.
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How many of you in the U.S. were taught in school that the Statue of Liberty was gifted to the U.S. to celebrate the abolition of slavery in the States?
yeah, i was taught that
no, i was taught something else
just curious.
