Posted on 08/21/2019 7:04:22 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
America actually did quite well after slavery was abolished, and the N. states’ slave-free industrial economy won the Civil War.
The American Nation is an amalgamation of 11 different sub-nations that were settled by different peoples with different goals and different religious ideas. (See American Nations by Colin Woodard)
Only the Deep South Lowlands - settled by planters from Barbados - adopted a social/economic model based on Black African Slavery. A few of the other 10 sub-nations went along and most rebelled against the savage slavery model from the start.
What many revisionists and liberals fail to understand is that slavery existed on this continent long before white men set foot on it.
Exactly.
‘Ultimately, more than 750,000 men died in the conflict that would finally end the wicked institution of slavery in America once and for all.’
Therefore, the Civil War was fought over Slavery?
i am offended by the use of the N. word
“America actually did quite well after slavery was abolished, and the N. states’ slave-free industrial economy won the Civil War.”
So sorry I recently tossed my college texts (70's).
Western white Christian men are the only people to have ended the accepted practice of slavery. I am proud of that. Pound sand, NYT.
Ping.
This is the anti-American version of history that your children and grandchildren are being indoctrinated with at government schools and many private schools. That is why the next generation of voters is convinced that Socialism is the answer to our problems in this country. Their goal is equality, not liberty.
Shame on lazy adults who have not objected to this attack on freedom, which we have financed with our money.
If modern America is built on anything, it is the Civil War in which the South’s slave based agrarian society was destroyed, and resulted in the North’s industrial age. The Southern states were practically erased during the decades long military occupation that followed.
Prior to the civil war, the only thing “built on slavery” was the Southern agrarian economy, which actually caused the South to lag behind.
America wasn’t built on slavery and the vestiges of slavery were leveled to the ground. America today is built on the North’s war to eradicate slavery, the resulting industrial revolution, mass European immigration, and World Wars I and II.
Slavery still exists today. Most modern-day slavery involves muslims, as it has for centuries.
In this particular case, they are either (a) blind to the differences in society between 1619, 1860 and 2019, or (b) they are simply trying to divide and conquer the country. My personal vote is for the latter conclusion because whatever we think of their motives and actions, they are NOT stupid - deluded by their own voices and determination to avoid God, but not stupid.
Slavery built very little. It is/was a failed economic system, which was already in relative decline against the free-labor practices of the industrial north.
It was a typical forced, crony-capitalist system, which benefited a few wealthy people and governments, but besides the slaves, also suppressed wages for poor whites.
That slavery “built America” another ignorant, emotive leftist, race-mongering slogan which is exactly WRONG.
The ultimate demise of slavery was built into the Declaration. It made it problematic from the start and set it on the road to abolishment.
As i understand it, slavery is alive and well in the Sudan. Black on black BTW.
Which is why they get upset if you say, "We should have picked our own damned cotton."
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