Five Things They Don’t Tell You about Slavery

National Review ^ | September 4, 2019 | Rich Lowry

[Verginius Rufus]

Narvaez led a large expedition to Florida. Eventually Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban, and two Spaniards were the only survivors (and they spent several years as slaves to Indians in Texas). I suspect Esteban was not the only slave among those who went to Florida initially with Narvaez.

I saw Henry Louis Gates on TV once talking about Esteban in glowing terms as if he had been the leader of the expedition.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Interesting side note. Mexico declared slavery illegal in 1829, yet 45 years later, slavers were still going North to raid Indian villages in the US for captives to sell in Mexico.

[elbook]

that

blacks owned other blacks in america

indians owned blacks

Black in africa captured black to trade to white men

arabs enslaved far move blacks than ‘whitemen’ ever did

slavery still exists today in certain parts of the world

democrats were the ones who supported slavery and still think of blacks as being owned by them

[Bonemaker]

[Eagles6]

Some of the largest slaveholders in the South were free blacks.

[Bonemaker]

[lizma2]

bkmk

[Uncle Sham]

Slavery in America, if one objectively looks at it from a historical perspective, is the BEST thing that has ever happened to the black race. It placed them at the table of the modern world and has given their descendants the opportunity to achieve equal status with the other races. How, when, and why this happened as it did no longer matters. We all have to live in TODAY’S world and focusing on that is how one stays afloat. That some choose to dwell on the past is their problem and is totally non productive to society as a whole.

[daniel1212]

Thank you.