Posted on 01/02/2009 10:11:42 PM PST by neverdem
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Great post, but I have no illusions about Obama and his agenda. And those who control him.
Actually, it was Anglo-American culture that restored pure chattel slavery to the world in the 18th and 19th centuries, when it had virtually disappeared everywhere else except in the Muslim lands. I have always thought it was the contact with the Muslims that revived the practice.
The Anglo-American colonists ran a slave economy and constantly attacked Spanish American colonies such as St. Augustine, which gave blacks their freedom if they could reach the Spanish colony. Even after England had forbidden the practice of slavery, the Anglo-American former colonies continued it and in fact created severe penalties for opposing it or even for doing things like evangelizing black slaves.
Slavery had virtually died out in Europe by the end of the Middle Ages, but it was contact with the aggressive Muslim raiders, who captured hundreds thousands of Europeans and sold them as slaves and then built an economy based on raiding Africa for slaves, that restored it. The practice of slavery in Latin American countries was modified by Catholic restrictions which essentially meant that it was more like a form of indentured servitude. Slaves had to be able to buy their freedom, hold property, marry, receive the sacraments, and could not be sold separately from their wives or children, and masters had the right to free them or could leave orders in their wills to free them. Naturally, there were people who ignored all of this, particularly the Portuguese, but in general those were the legal restrictions, and slavery ended as Latin American countries produced their own constitutions.
The concept of natural law, human rights and the rights of the governed developed by 17th century Spanish philosophers - and used heavily by Jefferson, incidentally - gradually penetrated thinking and (along with a few strategically placed revolutions based on economic causes) eventually made the concept of slavery unacceptable.
The complete and fanatical dedication of Anglo-American colonists to a type of pure chattel slavery (that is, the slave is just a possession with no human rights) is actually rather a mystery and would seem to conflict with many of their other views. Some of the people most involved in the slave trade were Quakers, for example. But I have always felt that it probably stemmed from contact with the Muslims, who ran slave economies, and then became such an essential part of the economy for those states and countries that had adopted it that they simply could not let it go.
ARAB AMERICAN============OBAMA AKA BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
Obama is not an African American. Barack HUSSEIN Obama is Arab American.
B.O..has only 6% African blood in his veins, therefore he doesn’t have enough blood to be termed an African American.
Don’t continue to lie B.O.
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