Posted on 07/02/2015 4:03:37 PM PDT by Starman417
This really oversimplifies — not to say whitewashes — Jefferson. While he had major criticisms of slavery in his youth, he learned how to live with it as he got older.
I love a good historical map
I guess that all things related to Jefferson must go.
Tear up the Declaration of Indepndence. Erase that it ever happened. Tear down Monticello. Get him off the nickel. Get rid of the swivel office chair he invented. Ban red hair.
The possibilities are endless.
I imagine that slavery predates the Sumerians. Perhaps they get the rap because they started to write things down.
Romans were enslaving Europeans, The Greeks were using slaves, The Egyptians before them had slavery. Why blacks think this is just a black thing is beyond me.
In the early ‘90’s when I began to spend a lot of time in Brazil, I learned then that Brazil imported 5 times as many slaves from Africa than the US - a majority of which were so badly treated that a majority died.
Huge difference from the US.
A very conservative black friend tells all he is very thankful for his ancestors being brought here as slaves, for now his whole family is prosperous - and if they had grown up in Africa would be most likely desperately poor today.
Try to sell this truth to most blacks and see what the reaction is.....
According to libs, the USA version was worse than any other form of slavery in history.
Good post!
Don’t forget that the English King sold 2/3s of Ireland into slavery in the Caribbean and the Americas.
I’m reading from the 1988 edition of “The Historical Atlas of the United States” published by the National Geographic Society. Page 40, under the Chapter titled.....”African Immigration in Chains” we find this information.
The total number of Africans brought to Colonial America (United States to be) was 399,000 and the population peaked in 1840 at about 2,000,000.
But.....slaves were imported to other areas...... as well.
The total amount of Africans imported to other New World territories was as follows.
Spanish America (Cuba, Mexico, Central and South America) was 1,552,100.
To British Caribbean (Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Jamaica, Honduras) was 1,665,000.
To French Caribbean (Surinam, Guyana) 1,600,000.
To Danish Caribbean (Leeward Islands) 28,000.
To Dutch Caribbean (Aruba and Leeward Islands) 500,000.
To Brazil (Portuguese America) 3,646,800.
About 6% of the total slaves brought from Africa to the Western Hemisphere ended up in what would become the United States, and of course....slavery, as an institution was still carried on in the Eastern Hemisphere by Africans themselves. Yet....when one is reminded of the evils of this practice and scourge on human history.....it seems that the United States is always considered to be the chief villain....... and is constantly reminded that reparations should be paid.
These facts also dispel the notion that slavery was somehow responsible for the economic success of this country. If that would be the case..... why isn’t Brazil such an economic dynamo.....or Aruba?
Hey.......my ancestors were slaves also....... held in Africa by Africans...... and would still be there if it had not been for Moses. I would like my reparations from Africa.....with interest!
And.....unfortunately....slavery still exists in Muslim Africa.
Be nice to see the GOP grow some balls and start mentioning that it wad the Dem party who was the party of slavery, segregation, and the KKK.
Go to black churches etc and tell them as well getting on the media . I am stunned to find how many blacks have no idea it was the Democrats.
“Did You Know the First Legal Slave Owner in America Was a Black Man?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3303713/posts
Here’s something you won’t read about in the US history books. The first legal slave owner in America was black and he owned white slaves.
Anthony Johnson (BC 1600 – 1670) was an Angolan who achieved freedom in the early 17th century Colony of Virginia.
Johnson was captured in his native Angola by an enemy tribe and sold to Arab (Muslim) slave traders. He was eventually sold as an indentured servant to a merchant working for the Virginia Company.
Sometime after 1635, Antonio and Mary gained their freedom from indenture. Antonio changed his name to Anthony Johnson.
In 1651 Anthony Johnson owned 250 acres, and the services of four white and one black indentured servants. The black indentured servant John Casor (Casar, Cazarao and Corsala) demanded that Johnson release him after his seven years of indenture.
In March of 1654, according to Delmarva Settlers, Anthony’s servant, a man named John Casar requested that Johnson release him from his indenture because it had long expired past the usual seven years. Johnson replied that he knew of no indenture and that Casar was to be his servant for life. Anthony Johnson’s neighbors, George and Robert Parker, stated that they knew of another indenture for the said Casar to a planter on the other side of the bay.
(If Lincoln had desired peace)
(When in the Course of Human Events) by Charles Adams
A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in american history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's? In The Real Lincoln, author Thomas J. DiLorenzo uncovers a side of Lincoln not told in many history books and overshadowed by the immense Lincoln legend. (The Real Lincoln)
Is there anyone else from over 200 years ago we wish to put on trial applying current standards and law?
I bet Jefferson built Monticello without permits, without an environmental impact study, without a neighborhood comment period, and without union labor. The whole thing probably isn’t code. The bastard!!
Nope.
Go back to DU.
I don’t forget my family took enlistment in the Union Army so northern rich did not have to serve in the CW. Than with the money they sent for wife’s and children from Wales to come to America. One of the three brothers still is at Gettysburg where he fell with a New York infantry unit. Lots of forms of slavery in history.
The word ‘’salve’’ derives from the word ‘’slavic’’ since more Europeans were enslaved in the Dark and Middle Ages.
"If it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen", is a favorite dictum in many professions!
I bet he couldn't build it today in less than two years and at enormous costs....what a hoot...he probably couldn't even have most of the animals and gardens at Monticello...neighborhood restrictions etc. Glad he built it at all, a beautiful history of that part of our history that was gracious and intelligent.
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