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America's Barbaric History
Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 28, 2010 | Malcolm A. Kline

Posted on 04/28/2010 11:12:50 AM PDT by bs9021

America’s Barbaric History

Malcolm A. Kline, April 28, 2010

Those politicians and pedagogues who agitate for slavery reparations in the United States should consider what would happen if the descendants of slaves around the world sought the same from the countries in which their ancestors were enslaved. “Just as Europeans enslaved Africans, North Africans enslaved Europeans—more Europeans than there were Africans enslaved in the United States and in the 13 colonies from which it was formed,” economist Thomas Sowell writes. “The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the treatment of black slaves picking cotton.”

“But there are no movies or television dramas about it comparable to ‘Roots,’ and our schools and colleges don’t pound it into the heads of students.” Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution who has taught at Rutgers, Amherst, Brandeis and UCLA.

“Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism,” Sowell argues. “Yet today there are Americans who have gone to Africa to apologize for slavery—on a continent where slavery has still not been completely ended, to this very moment.”

Ironically, left-wing scholar and scribe Christopher Hitchens said pretty much the same thing in a lecture that Sean Grindlay covered for Accuracy in Academia in 2004...

(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...


TOPICS: Education; History; Reference; Society
KEYWORDS: academicbias; antiamericanism; barbarypirates; godsgravesglyphs; history; islam; islamiclaw; modernslavery; modernslavetrade; revisionisthistory; slavery; stalinsttactics; usnavy
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1 posted on 04/28/2010 11:12:50 AM PDT by bs9021
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To: bs9021
“From the 17th to the early 19th centuries, over one million white Europeans were enslaved by pirates from the Barbary States of northern Africa,” Grindlay wrote.

Correct. However, at least five of the slaves produced this story with a happy ending.

2 posted on 04/28/2010 11:22:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: bs9021

How dare you? Don’t you realize that AmeriKa invented slavery?

I know because I learned it in college... and had it reinforced by radio, television, left-wing websites blah, blah, blah...


3 posted on 04/28/2010 11:24:45 AM PDT by joeystoy
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To: bs9021

There were blacks in the early days of the US who owned slaves.

But all blacks will get reparations.....


4 posted on 04/28/2010 11:25:51 AM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: bs9021

Ya know, the fact there has NEVER been a movie made about the defense of Malta against the invading Turks and Pirate is a true travesty, esp. an era where Hollyweird “remaking” Bewitched or I Dream of Jeanie.
The same is true for the Battle of Lepanto.

Both of these battles are tremendous opportunities for heroic action films.


5 posted on 04/28/2010 11:29:02 AM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Tzimisce

The very first individual on this continent bound under what has come to be recognized as chattel slavery was an African, John Casor.

He was purchased by a free black man, Anthony Johnson. This occurred in Virginia, in 1619.

Fact.


6 posted on 04/28/2010 11:31:43 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Tzimisce

....And African kingdoms who built their kingdoms selling slaves/enemies into slavery through via Muslim traders.


7 posted on 04/28/2010 11:45:17 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: bs9021

As apposed to the peace-loving history of ...........?


8 posted on 04/28/2010 11:47:36 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: bs9021; eleni121
The "North Africans" who enslaved European Christians and West Africans (mainly animists at the time) were all muslims!!!! As with many muslims, they used the Qur'an and other muslim writings to justify their slaving practices.

muslims in various parts of the word (e.g., Sudan, Mauritania) still enslave "infidels", and sell slaves to rich muslims in the Gulf States and elsewhere. Most of these slaves are black. muslims also hold many other "infidels" in dhimmi status, and are threatening to re-introduce dhimmitude in other muslim countries.

islam has been the biggest slave system in world history, and still is today!!!! Meanwhile the taqiyya-practicing muslim would-be dictator Barack Hussein Muhammad obama bashes the great Commonwealth of Virginia for celebrating Confederate History Month, all because of slavery. Partners in Hussein's hypocrisy are the legions of phony academics who bash America (especially the South) and exalt islam, all while hiding islam's truly barbaric past and present.

As for Alex Haley's "Roots", it was plagiarized from an earlier novel, and was NOT about Haley's family history. The phony, plagiarized "Roots" (the book and the TV series) has done untold damage to America and her culture, leading us to emphasize "identity politics" over Americanism.

9 posted on 04/28/2010 11:48:50 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Tzimisce

Are they going to get reparations for the millions that were enslaved to service Islamic needs throughout the mideast over the last 1400 years? Are they going to get Islam to answer?

Sure some went to America. Some went to Europe. But a huge number went to the Mid East and beyond.


10 posted on 04/28/2010 11:49:06 AM PDT by himno hero
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To: Little Ray; All

Oh there is a vast array of possibilities for films showing the heroic bravery of Christians in the face of Mohameddan zombie invasions. In Europe in Africa in Asia.

An excellent book on the slavery of Europeans by African muslims is this one:

White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves by Giles Milton

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374289352/ref=oss_product


11 posted on 04/28/2010 12:21:49 PM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: Honorary Serb

There is a good book on this-—an academic, scholarly book-—called “Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters.”


12 posted on 04/28/2010 12:26:00 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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"Only the fact that the West had more firepower than others put an end to slavery in many non-Western societies during the age of Western imperialism," Sowell argues. "Yet today there are Americans who have gone to Africa to apologize for slavery -- on a continent where slavery has still not been completely ended, to this very moment." Ironically, left-wing scholar and scribe Christopher Hitchens said pretty much the same thing in a lecture that Sean Grindlay covered for Accuracy in Academia in 2004...
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13 posted on 05/03/2010 5:09:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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It could be said that the wealth of the City of London and it's status as a financial center was built on the India trade - and the slave trade. The British came to dominate the trade.

The design for the proposed London memorial to the slave trade:


14 posted on 05/03/2010 5:26:43 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Thanks ct. That proposed memorial is just a propaganda piece and should be A) rejected and B) smashed to bits.


15 posted on 05/03/2010 6:09:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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To: SunkenCiv

Of course it’s propaganda. Only reason stuff like that gets built! They ought to build it to the Royal Navy. They stopped the trade once it was prohibited.


16 posted on 05/03/2010 7:04:39 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bs9021

Millions of Christians whites were enslaved some into the 20th century at the hands of Turk and other Muslims.


17 posted on 05/03/2010 7:11:38 PM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: bs9021

Another fact not taught is that only in the US did black slaves ever live well enough to be self sustaining. Everywhere else in the Americas blacks were simply worked to death and replaced in a continual cycle.


18 posted on 05/03/2010 7:23:57 PM PDT by wendy1946
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To: bs9021
Well dammit, I'm jumpion on the FREE Money train too!

I want MY reparations from the Queen of England for what 'she' did to my Irish ancestors! (Just don't give me Camilla as my payoff) And then I want MORE reparations from Italy for what the Romans did to my Germanic ancestors!

And THEN, I want EVEN MORE reparations from EVERYBODY in the USA for what my Irish immigrant ancestors had to endure here with the 'Irish Need Not Apply', bullcarp!

How's about them apples!

(gee this isfun game. I'm glad we can all play)

19 posted on 05/04/2010 4:44:03 AM PDT by Condor51 (SAT CONG!)
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To: bs9021

600,000 dead solsdiers and the economic destruction of the Southern States wasn’t enough?


20 posted on 05/04/2010 4:46:43 AM PDT by csmusaret (Remember, half the people in this country are below average)
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