Posted on 07/12/2021 6:27:56 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
This documentary may interest you.
Tim Barton: Documents on Forgotten History Dispel the Lies About the American Story
Is that WRITTEN anywhere...I hate videos...I can read faster
The posted article references the colonies in 1761, 1767, 1769, 1771.
You reference Britain in 1787.
Which dates come first? Which party started what?
The Brits did precede the Americans in ending chattel slavery, but at the same time used the peoples of their colonies in India and Africa much as slaves.
these jackwads who keep whining about what happened to their ancestors.
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Which had the ancestors not been taken into slavery, these jackwads would either not exist or live in a real shithole where life expectancy is short, painful and brutal. They should be thankful, not ungrateful - but in reality the jackwads just want more free stuff and special privileges because of something that happened to their ancestors hundreds of years ago.
And we know damned well that if they got what they are asking for, it would be just a short while before they would whine about ‘not enough’ and ‘need more’.
It is written, but I don’t know if it is in a book. The video includes original documents that show most of our founding fathers objected to slavery in 1774. They do mention a few books on the subject.
The video also shows why most of the history books in our schools are based on lies. Skip to 22:15 and you’ll see Woodrow Wilson was the culprit.
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Note well that all of the abolitionist talk mentioned was among northern states, not southern states. It was the southerners who wanted to keep slavery going to pick their crops.
I guess you missed this
And Then in Virginia
The last case I want to mention in this short summary came in Virginia itself.
In 1767 Virginian Arthur Lee printed an address in the Virginia Gazette to the House of Burgesses calling for the abolition of slavery. The first step toward that end, he recommended, should be to put a heavy duty on the importation of slaves. While this idea was not taken up immediately, it was reintroduced in 1769 by Richard Henry Lee, and passed.
The action was then suspended by the British Crown as being hurtful to a major source of British revenue.
As I said, the problem is that we care it all.
As I said, the problem is that we care it all.
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Your problem - I was just attempting to set the record straight without pissing them off.
We still have slavery now. I bet the clothes you are wearing are made by slaves in China. We need to fight the Chinese slave traders...
No, the early cotton harvesters weren’t that good. It took well into the 20th century (1940s) that mechanization took over. Even in some ideal alternate universe, it would have taken 60 years for truly efficient machines to be developed and put into widespread use, and even then, if slavery hadn’t been abolished new uses might have been found for slave labor.
We look at all this through the prism of slavery. I suspect that slavery was much less of a factor than people today assume it was.
The US also had ships off Africa to stop slave trading, until 1861, when they were needed for some other purpose.
Too much money to be made by looking at things through the prism of slavery, it's turned into a full-blown industry.
Anthony Johnson, a black man. He enslaved John Casor,a black man, by suing in Virginia court.
“the non slave owning super majority had absolutely nothing to gain from slavery and much to lose.”
Exactly. My southern family saw slavery like we see illegal aliens today: Cheap labor that undermines the rest of us.
We (this generation) isn’t owed a debt of gratitude for the sacrifices of our ancestors any more than we deserve to be shamed for them. All we are owed is an honest reporting of the historical facts, both good and bad.
That said, American slavery was ended by whites. That is historical fact. Today, those many (good and honorable) sacrifices of whites on behalf of blacks are gone down the memory hole, as only historical facts that support black grievances and grow tribalism are recounted.
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