Misplaced Blame: Using 1619 For Propaganda in 2020

Townhall.com ^ | March 1, 2020 | Marvin Olasky

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 03/01/2020. Thanks Kaslin.

Here are the other GGG topics introduced since the previous Digest ping, nice long list for the first time in a long while:

• 1199: Pierre Basile, marksman
• 1554: Thomas Wyatt the Younger, with the Queen's life in his hands
• 2 men claim 'Bigfoot' sighting in Ohio, video goes viral
• The 500-million-year-old reason behind the unique scent of rain
• 5,000-year-old egg hunt: Research reveals surprising complexity of ancient ostrich egg trade
• Ancient teeth from Peru hint now-extinct monkeys crossed Atlantic from Africa
• Archaeology project unearths rare Roman artefacts in Long Melford
• Church Records Could Identify an Ancient Roman Plague
• Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implications
• The Dome of the Rock and History
• Farmer Finds Roman Treasure Trove Scattered Across Field [Poland]
• Fossil Skull Casts Doubt Over Modern Human Ancestry [Homo heidelbergensis]
• Islamic Places in Petra
• Raphael's bittersweet 500th anniversary in Rome
• Masada Shall Never Fail (to Surprise) Again
• Modern science reveals ancient secret in Japanese literature
• Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree
• Thomas Becket: Alpine ice sheds light on medieval murder
• What The Great Historian Thucydides Saw In Athens' Plague -- And Our Own
• SEX spell that would force a man into bed with his female admirer is discovered on ancient Egyptian papyrus
• The "Stoned Ape" Hypothesis Might Explain Extraordinary Leap in Evolution
• Treasure Hunter Finds the First Celtic Chariot Burial in Wales, Rewrites Ancient History

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[21twelve]

Thanks for that link with Morgan Freeman’s comments. (Hmm - Freeman. I wonder if that is his real last name? Would be cool if it is.)

One of the charts though is wrong. The one talking about how many slaves were brought to the Americas from 1619 to 1875. Or at least it could be clearer. The USA stopped bringing in new slaves in 1808. So that meant our slaves were taken care of even better after that so that they would stay healthy and have families-so their kids could be slaves :(

[Brown Deer]

Morgan Freeman was born on June 1, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He is the son of Mayme Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961.

[21twelve]

Thanks! I wonder how many slaves changed their names to that once they were freed? I’m guessing that is how the last name came about.

[Brown Deer]

[gleeaikin]

The Africans brought here in 1619 were not classified as slaves, but treated as indentured servents. Some/all? apparently were released after a certain number of years work, and were given land and tools. Slavery apparently was instituted because as the land became more crowded, white settlers did not want them to get land, and the designation of slavery was established in law. Below a detailed description of how slavery evolved in US.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr3.html

[Chode]

thx

[gleeaikin]

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