Slavery (Walter Williams)

townhall.com ^ | 7/19/2017 | Walter Williams

[rktman]

While slavery constitutes one of the grossest encroachments on human liberty, it is by no means unique or restricted to the Western world or United States, as many liberal academics would have us believe. Much of their indoctrination of our young people, at all levels of education, paints our nation's founders as racist adherents to slavery, but the story is not so simple.

[rktman]

Well, the search engine produced a bunch of articles about the subject but I didn't see this one specifically so. Mr. Williams, for what it's worth, gives us a brief historical look at slavery around the world. And here the libs would have us believe that it was invented below the Mason-Dixon line and that every white American, regardless of being from the north or south, bears guilt for it happening. Uh, NOT!

[rktman]

NON print version:

https://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2017/07/19/slavery-n2355971

[Socon-Econ]

Medieval serfdom was only a small step above slavery.

[SMARTY]

Long before the world even heard of the United States, slavery was ongoing and VERY lucrative to slave trading individuals and governments.

None of it could have taken place at all without the eager and voluntary participation of African natives themselves.

Without good maps (any maps), considering the diseases, terrain, weather, brutal inter-tribal warfare, language barriers and everything else, no one would have even considered ‘slaving’ as an enterprise. All these obstacles were mitigated by African native tribal chiefs and others who knew the continent and could perpetually deliver masses of their own brethren to coastal ports for export.

Yes...it was very lucrative for THEM and for Europeans and others who engaged in slave trading.

[rktman]

One of the important steps that seem to be left out of any discussion with libs on the subject. They prefer the story about how all white armies invaded the dark continent and captured all those slaves.

[rawcatslyentist]

Slavery is still legal.

Read the loophole in the 13th.

[henkster]

For many centuries, the North Africans made their summer raids to the south coast of France to round up a crop of slaves. The same thing happened in what is now Ukraine, with the Turks making their summer raids to round up a crop of slaves. It goes without saying that the slave traders were moslems, and the slaves were white. Mostly young white females. This is one reason why the Russians still hate the Turks. They have long memories.

[abb]

Medieval serfdom was only a small step above slavery.

Kinda like income taxes, ain't it? You get to keep only part of what you produce.

[jjotto]

It was really the rise of the military power of the United States that put a damper on Muslims kidnapping white Europeans as slaves. Easily more than a million European Christians were made the slaves of Muslims in a couple hundred years, and perhaps several times that many.

[JimRed]

Read the loophole in the 13th.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction..

That is an appropriate loophole.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

Here is an interesting comment Sir Winston Churchill made back in 1899 about slavery:

"The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife,
or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

[Albion Wilde]

IRISH: THE FORGOTTEN WHITE SLAVES
http://settingrecordstraight.blogspot.com/2015/03/irish-forgotten-white-slaves.html

Irish Sugar Slaves of Barbados
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du9Py0stL14

The Black Irish of Montserrat in the Caribbean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZNEloGC1oI

[JimRed]

This is one reason why the Russians still hate the Turks. They have long memories.

But now they hate the Ukrainians as well!

[Albion Wilde]

Corrected link:

Irish Sugar Slaves of Barbados
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY4rDnb11bY&spfreload=10

[henkster]

They kind of hate everybody. Russians are a$$holes, they know they are a$$holes, and they enjoy being a$$holes.

But they do make damn good hockey players.

[Albion Wilde]

The Enslavement of Whites in Early America ~ Michael Hoffman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTfjv_wFBWs&spfreload=10

Forgotten White Slaves - Irish, Scots, poor Englishmen ended up as slaves in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i66NApOZh3A&spfreload=10

[rktman]

Kinda like chain gangs working the side of the road? Well except now we have ‘felons rights’ groups I suppose.

[ml/nj]

Slavery is hardly the worst of all human conditions. It had to be made into that when it became the excuse for the invasion of the Southern States.

ML/NJ ("Honest Yankee")

[MosesKnows]

Read the loophole in the 13th

Does the 13th Amendment provide a means or opportunity of evading a law?

I fear the "loophole” you refer to is due process and due process in law is not a loophole. Due Process is the Supreme Law of the Land.

[DoodleDawg]

Slavery is hardly the worst of all human conditions.

"Whenever I hear any one arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." - Abraham Lincoln, 1865