Posted on 03/01/2020 6:22:40 AM PST by Kaslin
Note: this topic is from . 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:
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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 :(
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.
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
thx
yw
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