Posted on 03/21/2022 8:58:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The current backlash against Critical Race Theory in K–12 schools has been mischaracterized as an attempt to ban teaching about slavery. Actually, the proper teaching of the history of slavery undermines CRT. Few other topics, when deeply understood, reveal the moral and economic evolution of Western civilization more than does the topic of slavery and the West's crushing of it.
Students need to know that slavery has been nearly universal. Slavery can be found throughout the world and in every era, including in Africa, well before the Europeans ever attached themselves to this already well established system practiced on members of rival tribes. Slavery also flourished in the Americas long before Columbus arrived.
Many American students are taught about the trans-Atlantic African slave trade. However, most have never learned that there was an extensive slave trade that went east to the Arabian Peninsula and north to the Ottoman Empire. The barbarism of slavery practiced in Arabia and the Ottoman frequently accompanied the brutality of castration of male slaves from Africa and Europe. Even learned people are unaware of the slave route from Europe to Africa. As many as million Europeans were kidnapped and sold into slavery to work in the mines and brothels of North Africa as well as in the galley ships of the Ottoman Empire. If high school students don't know this, it's because it isn't taught.
It is imperative to teach that not only was slavery a moral atrocity, but it was an economic disaster compared to free labor in free markets.
Brazil and the Caribbean islands received over 90% of slaves in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The U.S. received only 3%, and almost none went to Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Based on this, it is clear that the history of slavery is the basis for relative national poverty as opposed to wealth. In the New World, the nations receiving fewer slaves have been far richer than nations receiving the most slaves: Brazil and Cuba. Among Latin American nations, those less reliant on slavery — Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile — evolved into more affluent societies than those more dependent on it. Even within nations, the regions with fewer or no slaves were historically richer than those regions with slavery. The lingering wealth gap between the American North and the South shows that slavery was not only brutal, but also impoverishing for regional economies.
The moral clarity of the British and then American abolition movements led to the end of slavery not only in the U.S. and the British Empire, but throughout much of the world. Starting in 1807, the British Royal Navy was effectively deployed to effectually end the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
“It is imperative to teach that not only was slavery a moral atrocity, but it was an economic disaster compared to free labor in free markets.”
It is also imperative to teach that slavery not just “was”, but also is. It is practiced now, but it is politically correct to ignore it.
“Starting in 1807, the British Royal Navy was effectively deployed to effectually end the trans-Atlantic slave trade.”
While impressing white Americans to help sail their ships.
methinks that is also known as slavery.
Slavery should not be taught. It is not a subject. An accurate teaching of History is what should be taught. Causes, effects, impacts of historical events are key to an education in History which augments understanding historical event dates, locations, etc. Example, to teach pre-Civil War history includes learning about the great awakening, regional issues like economics, political trends and a key issue in all of those was how and why slavery was involved.
History revisionism is being used by Democrats to foster hatred and class warfare, which in turn is used to destroy the normal flow of society. The end game is always the same: communists in one form or another using it as a pretense to seize total power.
How slavery should be taught... by informing the children thst black people were slavery and slave owners, and that white people were slaves and actually worth less than black slaves because they were easier to get, so slave owners wrrent as careful withmtheir white slaves as they were their black slaves.
Black people were slaver runners I meant, autocorrect strikes again.
Not that ANY US students at this point learn ANY history at all.
I think it is a great disservice to students to not have a decent understanding of history.
IME, most under 50(?) would tend to say that slavery occurred, ONLY In North America/ Colonies/ United States from Columbus and ended with the Civil War (eradicated entirely from the planet) .
ONLY Blacks, and indigenous were held as slaves by Whites.
This is really a basic an fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the world. ( just a couple)
The Jews.
All areas captured under Rome,
The Turks (especially the Jannisarries),
The Irish under Brittan (Black Irish? Anyone?)
The Africans and indigenous throughout the Americas.
Other than White guys in white suits with funny beards and neck ties owning slaves.
The Chinese and Irish as “indentured servants” (slaves) in the US AFTER the CW..
“While impressing white Americans to help sail their ships.”
The Brits stopped American ships to look for deserters from the Royal Navy.
The Americans paid better, used larger blocks, and were less reliant on the whip to maintain discipline. American Naval and commercial ships were much more desirable to sail on than warships of the Royal Navy.
It should be taught that slavery was once legal in the US until a Republican, namely Abe Lincoln, was elected president and abolished it.
First off mentioning that over 750,000 white troopers were killed both for freeing the slaves and wanting to keep them.
Any teaching of the history of slavery that doesn’t mention that there are more black Africans enslaved in Africa TODAY, than ever existed elsewhere is incomplete.
Similarly, the failure to detail the forgotten Irish (and other slaves) imported by the British is woefully incomplete. Irish slaves far outnumbered African slaves.
Five slave states remained loyal to the Union in the Civil War. Most gave up slavery, but Slavery was not abolished in the North till the 13th Amendment was ratified in Dec 1865 eight months after the war’s end and Lincoln was dead.
Delaware was the last holdout.
Indeed Mao media mum
Africans believed that humans could be property but land could not be property.
Slavery, along with poverty and tyranny, is a default condition of mankind.
Just because, for tiny slice of history, we have constrained these things just a little bit doesn’t mean the situation is permanent.
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