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.
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.
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.
ML/NJ
The Slavery system was anti-Free Market.
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