Actually, if a present day teacher taught the FACT that British North America & the United States of America was the destination of a mere 4% of the Atlantic Slave Trade, they would be corrected and probably punished if not fired!
Posted on 02/26/2021 4:57:57 PM PST by grundle
Everyone thought that about the Aztecs. There was a reason so many of their subjected people joined Cortez.
If Cortez had confined himself to beating the Aztecs and kept his word to his allies the history of Mexico would have been very different.
It was mostly white Christians who bought the slaves from the slave traders in the United States.
Did you know that a direct descendant of Monteczuma is a member of the Spanish nobility?
Designated by Juan Carlos I of Spain
Duke of Moctezuma de Tultengo - Juan José Marcilla de Teruel-Moctezuma y Valcárcel
Inherted the title in 2014 when his father died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Moctezuma_de_Tultengo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moctezuma_II
I find it amazing !
The first slave market in Europe is on the coast of southern Portugal.
More like a success - ignorance and miseducation by design.
Absolutely.
Except the 22 year old college graduate would probably just scream “lies! lies!” and think they were the ones that were brilliant.
Spain were capable of being both very barbaric and very civilized toward their conquered. Oddly sometimes at about the same time.
Lots of slave markets in Europe prior to that !
For example: Rome had three slave revolts. (We only know about the last one becase of the movie Spartacus.) They bought those slaves at a market I am sure they didn’t come in the mail.
The Greeks had slaves & slave markets too !
Yes !
Its very intriguing history.
But it took a black man going to court to make it legal!
BTW: He and his son both owned White slaves!
The Romans did not let their slaves wear distinctive clothing or marks because they feared a revolt if the slaves realized they outnumbered the masters.
That’s interesting, I always thought the opposite.
Because there were later laws in Middle Ages regarding the types of clothing the classes could wear.
Freed slaves would wear a soft cap to show they were free but the still enslaved had to dress like everybody else. Just no Togas. You had to be a free born citizen to wear that. But since there were a whole bunch of people in Rome who were not citizens and lots of citizens did not wear togas unless it was a very formal occasion that was not a notable sign.
Seems he wrote some famous fables ...
Public school system void of history
Actually, if a present day teacher taught the FACT that British North America & the United States of America was the destination of a mere 4% of the Atlantic Slave Trade, they would be corrected and probably punished if not fired!
It was mostly blacks who enslaved them in the first place.
In this country it was whites that bought most of them
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