Muslim Arabs from what is now Algeria routinely raided southern France for female slaves. Muslim Turks and Tatars did the same in southern Russia. The practice continued well into the 17th and early 18th centuries.
Are the modern French and Russians owed reparations?
I didn’t find out until three years ago our Native Americans were often targeted by Europeans for the slave trade. All I had ever been taught was that evil Southern men took blacks out of Africa to work in the fields of the plantations. I was in a third grade classroom and the teacher- an AA woman- was reading the story of Squanto, an Indian who had survived being captured and sold into slavery. To this teachers’ credit- one of her AA students told her they thought that only blacks were made slaves in the South. She told them no, Africans weren’t the only ones sold as slaves, and in some ways slavery exits to this day.
The Africans taken out of Africa are all long dead.
Those who removed them are all long dead.
The heirs of slaves that were not slaves have no standing to demand anything from those who never owned slaves themselves.
These reparations clowns need to be told to shove off in no uncertain terms.
This was taught back when I went to high school.
The problem is, of course, that European societies and certain spin-off nations have been too successful— too innovative, wealthy, powerful, with a higher standard of living— relative to any other societies or cultures in the history of mankind. They control the world’s economy, and when they go to war, it involves the world. It’s human nature for the have-nots to envy and try to take from the haves— their wealth, their power, their glory.... Just people being people, and using race as a justification in this case.
Then we should start spreading the word. Forwarding the article where and to whom we should.
When all the blacks whose ancestors owned slaves pony up for reparations, I’ll think about it.
EXCELLENT article. Thanks for posting.
We took the least slaves, and are the only nation to be pestered about it day after day.
No other nation deals with this to my knowledge.
Then there’s the fact that there is still slavery in Africa today, but you never hear a single soul talk about putting and end to it.
The Left in the U. S. has brought this on us.
The Left has been increasing race animosity and they began to maximize doing so just when most of the country was moving away from it - in the 50s. Through the Left the taint of segregation was laid on the head of the nation, though most of the nation was not conducting segregation nor had segregationist laws. Why did the Left do that? They did that just as they do everything today. There way of building must always divide up and tear down everything before and until the Left has total control, so the people are socially in ashes and they can build on the ashes.
“A man I have known since grade school changed his name, years ago, to an Arabic one. He told me he rejected Christianity as “the white man’s religion that justified slavery.”
LOL! What a fool! The Arabic world is still engaged in slavery.
It was the Republicans that were giving them 40 acres and a mule. The dems shut that down. So I think the dems are the ones that owe them.
Ping
Muslims today continue raiding Africa for slaves.
Yes it’s really odd that a lot of “conscious” blacks seem to revere Arabs and hate whitey, when the Arabs enslaved far more and freed none.
Wow - this was interesting.
Excellent article by Mr. Elder, and those stats re Brazil and Arab peoples were new to me even after years of research.
What they didn’t reach was that legalized slavery was started by a black man.
In 1655, Anthony Johnson, a black man, sued in Virginia to enslave for life John Casor, a black man. It wasn’t legal before that suit.