…There are a lot of misconceptions about slavery in today’s world and some of them are:
History taught us many important lessons, but not many things about slavery are actually learned in school. In this article, we will delve deeper into this controversial topic that often sparks arguments and disagreements among people.
With a lot of care for details and accuracy, the team from Historical Files got in touch with a few historians who helped us debunk some of the worst misconceptions about slavery.
How did it begin?
The first ship carrying “20 and odd” African slaves sailed to Virginia’s shores in August of 1619. This day was around 400 years ago, marking the beginning of a lasting connection between the establishment of the United States and the illegal exploitation of enslaved people.
However, even centuries later, misconceptions and the long-term effects of slavery are still being neglected. For example, many of the slave uprisings and revolts that occurred across the country were wiped away, which helped to spread the myth that those who were slaves were docile or content with their circumstances.
Another enduring myth is that black labor exploitation has ended, even though millions of African Americans are still incarcerated and frequently earn “wages” of less than $1 per hour as a result of mass incarceration.
Based on historians’ word-for-word stories, here are five misconceptions about slavery that are present in today’s world:
1. Slaves never fought back
This is probably one of the most common misconceptions about slavery. Why? Let’s see. The US slave trade has resulted in a complex mythology full of incomplete and misleading information due to misinformation. A significant gap in history is related to slave protests. Few accounts of the transatlantic slave trade in popular media or history texts address the numerous slave uprisings that took place in early American history.
In the book History of the Pan-African Revolt, the author James C.L.R. relates several minor revolts, including the most significant one that took place in September 1739 in the South Carolina colony, where two guards were slain by a small group of African slaves. They spread to neighboring plantations, where they killed around twenty enslavers, particularly the brutal overseers, by setting them on fire.
2. They ran away from enslavement to commit infractions
Many individuals undoubtedly considered this after reading about slaves. Those who were able to escape that kind of existence desired to become like everyone else by learning to read and write.
Many others simply fled and fled quickly. Others produced books, joined abolitionist groups, and lectured to the public about life as a slave. Others show the courage to lead or engage in direct fights with their former owners.
To cite a history professor from California State University It is easier to cover up the horrific and violent treatment that African Americans held as slaves suffered at the hands of their masters if these stories of protests are ignored or minimized.
It’s simpler to assume that all the people who were enslaved were submissive and satisfied and that their living circumstances weren’t all that harsh from the outside. We can easily jump to conclusions if we believe all the misconceptions about slavery that are circulating in the media and even in some books.
3. Compared to field slaves, home slaves had better lives
…Hmmm not so much. See, this is another misconception about slavery that’s been going around for a while now, yet it’s totally false. Be aware that this paragraph isn’t exactly for the faint of heart.
Even though the physical labor of cultivating land, sowing, and harvesting often destroyed the slaves’s bodies, the emotional abuse women and children had to endure in the house of their masters was way worse. And unfortunately, it wasn’t going to stop anytime soon.
In reality, 2016 research found that 16.7% of African Americans may trace their ancestry back to Europe due to the widespread practice of rape of black women by white owners. According to one of the study’s authors, African Americans who were genetically connected to the males who had raped their mothers, grandparents, and/or great-grandmothers were the first to flee the South.
These were the African Americans who worked in the homes of slave masters and were the enslaved people who were closest to and spent the longest periods with white males. We can’t possibly imagine how traumatic the experience was. The fear of being held captive and the shame associated with anxiety over and over again for years lead to PTSD.
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4. Racism ended with abolition
There is a widespread misconception regarding American slavery that, upon its abolition, racism, and white supremacy in the country likewise vanished. A common version of this fallacy was recently put out by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who stated that he was against reparations “for something that happened 150 years ago.” The Kentucky Republican descended from slave owners, believed that racial inequality had been balanced by the battlefield. Slavery was either simply accepted as the norm or it wasn’t.
However, the reality is that white Americans held onto the same white supremacist ideologies even after the Civil War, which continued to influence their attitudes and behavior both during and after liberation.
White people still had the mindset of slave owners, particularly in the South. They used convict leasing and sharecropping in the late 19th century to manage Black work, passed Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century to control African American conduct, and continue to police the color line with racial terror today.
The situation wasn’t any different in the north as well. Following liberation, they refused to give freedmen access to confiscated and abandoned property because they thought African Americans would not labor without white supervision. Moreover, white Northerners imposed their version of Jim Crow, dividing communities and refusing to recruit African American laborers on a nondiscriminatory basis, when African Americans started to leave Dixie during the Great Migration.
Slavery was indeed abolished 150 years ago, but unfortunately, even now, African Americans continue to be affected by the institution’s legacy of racism in the United States.
5. Slavery isn’t active anymore
We’ve left one of the most common misconceptions about slavery for the end. In actuality, it developed into mass imprisonment in its current form. Globally, the United States has the world’s biggest prison population. Over 2.2 million Americans are behind bars, while 4.5 million are on parole or probation. The percentage of African Americans in the overall population is around 13%.
However, the proportion of African men, women, and adolescents in the criminal justice system is disproportionately high—34 percent of the 6.8 million individuals under its jurisdiction are African Americans. Their labor is put to use creating goods and services for companies that make money off of prisoners.
How do you feel about this topic? Let us know in the comments section.
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Talk about all slavery from the beginning of time.You talked-about a blip in the slavery timeline i.e. isolated incident in the carnages of the northen americas. From the 1019 years of Anglo Saxton slavery in 1776. Who bowed when the monarchy stepped in a room.
Very interesting, although a little mild but definitely effective for the whole country to see how bigotry works in our everyday economic system. Power, Servitude (submission), Money= “PSM” and only the Liars, Thieves and Destroyers “LTD” appear to benefit from this system. God is not mocked — that is why those who were, are and still fighting the system with humility inflames their narrative. The LTD is fighting against flesh and blood—never truly desired to fight against principalities in high places—that’s why there’s very little stress about deceit because it will be revealed to them that do those things.
Indeed in our economic system. In the book “The Jewish involvement of the Slave Trade” the Jews had the greatest number of ships kidnapping Africans to sell in America. The kidnapped Africans dared to say they were sick or ill. If they were sick they were thrown overboard by the Jewish captives. The Jews fought against the abolitionist, and fought Abraham Lincoln for the emancipation and abolition of slavery. Slavery had a large economic impact on the United States economy.
Just because slavery officially ended in the US with the Civil War does not mean that racism ended. It is still ongoing both as “white privilege” and as “Black Lives Matter” movements. Whites unconsciously discriminate against blacks on a daily basis, while many blacks demand better treatment than whites in all things no matter what the situation. One sign of this was and is the ongoing insistence that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt had to be a black woman. Her own contemporaries described her as a ‘Macedonian blonde’ and she was descended from Alexander the Great’s half-brother Ptolemy. This means her ancestry is eastern Mediterranean leaning towards Eastern European NOT African. Macedonia was north and slightly east of Greece; Egypt was in the Easternmost part of North Africa, making it just east and south of the Central Mediterranean. Even back in those days, Arabic ancestry dominated the Southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, including all of North Africa. Black Africans came from farther south. There may have been Black African bloodlines in Egypt, reference the “Nubian Pharaohs”, but Cleopatra was not Egyptian by ancestry, only by culture.
Yes. Cleo was multi ethnic and closer to European because of mixing. And this dilution of the original African bloodline of Egypt goes centuries back and evolved thru the numerous foreign invasions of other non-African peoples. But rest assured that all the ancient Pharoah dynasties particularly earlier 1st and mid era Pharoah dynasties are Black Africans and they wisely for posterity seek thank God left their distinctly African features in their paintings, statues and monuments like, the Spinx and the Great Pyramids. And of course enemies of the African peoples have destroyed, co-opted, misinformed and all other manner of deceit to hide, distort, denigrate and erase these great contributions of Africa to humanity. Tell the Truths!!!
There was a time when there was No Arabs at all in North Africa!!! Fact! What of Kemet?
You say black people came from the South. Are you saying that there were no So called Black people in North Africa and that they migrated in? If this is what you are saying then this is simply not true! Did you know that there is research from the University of Milan that indicates the some of the iconography that is in so called Egyptian culture may have been in place pre Nile population in Mali. You people are always trying to position yourself as superior and you are superior to no one! It is a fact that so called white people are descended from Neanderthals and Denisovans and if African men had not interbred you would not even be on the earth today. The fact is you walked into North Africa after wondering in the wilderness for thousands of years as newly arrived humans. When you arrived in Kemet you were completely absorbed into a “ complex society “ that had everything in place! You did not bring anything with you other than rags and crude utilitarian items! Facts! You should be ashamed of yourself and the way you are trying to position Africans as claiming culture that wasn’t theirs when all the evidence says different!
oh! you forgot one thing they did bring to the table!!! DISEASE!!! All came from Europe!!!!
The fact is: You can’t even spell “wandering” correctly.
This is relatively an accurate statement. You forgot the Phonecians who were from the Northern West geographic area of Africa, who migrated North toward what is now Lebanon.
As a born American Black Woman I indeed have experienced the instilled racism lingering from enslavement within this country. Being the mother of adult sons, their reality is harsher. One of the hardest aspects is the denial of White people that it does not exist and there is equality across the board. As a resident of Buffalo NY, the segregation is extremely apparent in this city, regardless of the fact that there’s a Black mayor. I truly believe that countless Black Americans live with some level of anger towards the hypocrisy of the United States of America.
Then leave ,go to Europe ,Africa,or some place you’ll feel comfortable,no one is holding you here !
As a Caucasian woman, living in Virginia, I can tell you that there is still a sense of superiority that we generally have, like it or not (and I do not like it, but sometimes I feel insensitive as well) and the answer is not to find another place to live (or to learn to type) but to try to understand all people we share space with in this country. Most of us do little to take ourselves out of our comfort areas and literally try to imagine what others experience just because of the color of their skin. Why don’t you try living somewhere that your skin color is in the minority and come back and respond respectively.
You are 100% correct but also some cultures refuse to change, and why not? There is nothing wrong with “in Rome live like the Romans do”! As of today, their environment has a major influence (where they live), inner city etc. Of course black lives matter, all lives matter. Today there is a lot of blame to go around. I wish all cultures will take credit for good and bad. Personally I believe the most serious problem is economics and greed. And then the culture war only makes it worse. The rich will never feel rich if everybody was rich. FACT, end of story!
Paul,
From 1619 til 2019. 400 years. This is Biblical.To all good people of good character regardless of race or color. Our American politicians always exclaiming at the end of their speeches. “God bless America”!(In the spirit sense) But this is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
It may seem so materially ,financially. These things simply don’t matter to our spiritual God. MORALITY DOES !America can never be blessed for it has never ATTONED for its many terrible sins committed against the innocent and God’s chosen, there is much to much innocence of blood crying out from the ground to the heavens. In theses days and times God is hearing and is in action. And rest assured , by his word, God will have his wrath!
Amen! No one has said it better than that. Yours was an on-point and gentle but firm response to a remark that pushed all my buttons and made me want to slap him.
Amen! No one has said it better than that. Yours was an on-point and gentle but firm response to a remark that pushed all my buttons and made me want to slap him
Bill. We are not leaving Our ancestors built the wealth of this country. We intend to claim some of the financial benefits that our ancestors died for.
So you want something that you had no hand in warning? Good luck with that.
Why is it that when issues like this are raised, people like you think the solution is to “leave” instead of “fix.” Most of the slaves were brought to America against their will. They were forced to live among people that were different and considered superior. Generations came after and made America their home because it was all they knew. And guess what? It was discovered that the white race was not superior. The black race was not underlings, they were just treated as such. Now it is as much their land as it is yours. Why would you suggest that if they don’t like it, they can move. Where are they supposed to move to? This is their home. The issues they face should be addressed and solutions implemented to solve the issues. The answer is not to leave, it is to become one nation where all have the same rights and resources. One nation, one people, one respect for all.
Spoken like a true racist! Instead of some smart A** reply why don’t you try to do your part in believing that all people are created equal and should be treated as such. You have no idea what it is like unless you are black and have experienced it firsthand.
Ignorant statement! America and Americans need to grow up and own up to the past in order to make a better and brighter future for all. America can never be great with blood of Native Americans and African people on their hands.
Should the Indian race leave too? Your ancestors almost destroyed the whole population of these peoples who were already here. You didn’t discover anything (Columbus was evil and a slaver too). Do you have no shame for this. Slavery was a sin against God, but you claim it was right because you stole Black folks from Africa because you could and had superior arms to do so. If there is anyone who should leave it is you Bill, this was never your country or right to it, you stole it!!
This is one of those reaffirming statements…let’s not fix the problem or even discuss it….Just leave! Well, this is home for us now. I have no desire to leave. When we go to work every day, we are bound to notice and even discuss things we are disgruntled with. What we do is form groups, unions, coalitions, and even appoint advocacy representatives for the entire population of workers. We move for change! What we do not do is take the advice of our employers: “go home if you don’t like it here!” We, rather, negotiate and rally for change. That is simply what the African American people are doing.
well truly you dont belong here either, you are not descendents of America, you are descendents of Europe, so you go home and give this land back to the Indians who are the true people of this country. You are what racism is all about don’t know nothing, just some lips on a face, shame of you and who brought you to this land.
I don’t believe that Deborah Daniels said she wanted to go anywhere. She was just bringing to light that racism is still alive and persistent here in America.
Why don’t YOU leave? And take your racist, ignorant attitude with you
It’s shit like this statement that makes us privileged white folk dislike you people.
Over 600 million in the continent of Africa do not have electricity….
Can we get a figure for other parts of the world re electricity, just for reference sake. Are there other Dark Continents out there.
I agree you can’t be EQUAL but separate. Grambling University- all black school. B,E,T television. Today if tried to have all white University or a W,E,T you would be crucified. Like Rodney King said can’t we all just get along. It doesn’t have to be cumbia just get along
It’s extremely important that as African Americans we continue to examine our place in the USA and understand our value as a people . Even during our “enslavement” we were inventors, scholars and most importantly, survivors. African Americans who are descendants of the slave trade in the USA has triumphed by nourishing our spiritual souls and minds. Let’s keep looking for and celebrating our victories while extending helping hands to those who have become victims of the racism and bigotry in this land . And Keep on pushing…we are in the caboose driving the train of progress and purpose. Go to school. Learn a trade. Study law, medicine history and science. We have triumphed before and we will continue.
I am a white woman and I have seen a lot of racism in the United States. Blacks still do not have equal rights in many areas. I lived in Virginia at the beginning of the civil rights movement. My landlord told be bluntly that I could hang my clothes outside but be sure to have them off by 4 o’clock or the blacks would steal them and the list goes on. Black lives matter is very real. Their lives do matter but many people do not like to accept that reality. Schools may be integrated but there is often a difference in how blacks are accepted by teachers and staff. Take the Central Park five who were accused of raping a young woman and there was an individual who stated strongly that they should be executed. Instead they were sent to prison. Years later they were found innocent of this crime. Often when a crime is committed the first person looked at is either black of Hispanic.
Slavery still exists in the U.S. & is planned to expand if the Communists take over fully. And the prisons are loaded with Negros, who though educated, are discarded for employment because they’re black or given low paying jobs. So racism is still practiced here. Anyone who doesn’t acknowledge this is racist & not being honest. America was born in war & violence & hasn’t quit yet.
Weren’t the negroes brought to Jamestown in 1619 by the Dutch sold as indentured servants, the same as many whites and some of my ancestors? Wasn’t slavery made legal in the northern states as early as 1620 and not in Virginia until about 1660? Weren’t Irish rebels sold as slaves in the West Indies? Weren’t the vast majority of Africans captured POW’s and sold by their own people? Wasn’t slavery early man’s alternative to killing the survivors of war? Did not the Soviet Union keep German POW’s for as long as 15 years after WWII? (These were young men and boys who were drafted into the military and not guilty of the crimes committed by their government.) Weren’t some of the largest slave holders in the South Negroes? My paternal grandparents were poor sharecroppers, were they slaves also? My maternal great-grandparents had a few slaves who left home in 1865; but, came back and wanted to know if they could come back home? After my Grandmother died when Mom was seven years old, she was raised by an old ex-slave woman. The only mother she knew after age seven, she and her sisters loved that old woman as much as any real mother. Yes, slavery is wrong now and back then. the 1860 census shows there were many more slaveholders in the North than the South. Didn’t more negroes die after the war because the North wouldn’t provide sufficiently for them? I could go on; but, I’ll shut up for now. Just remember it all goes both ways.
Thankfully, you brought some insightful comments and questions on this article which leans toward the liberal lens of hostory
Are you justifying slavery?
Thank you for that. All true but most don’t want to accept or acknowledge those facts!
No it doesn’t go both ways. If you’re white, you have privilege period.
Ask any black mother or father what conversations they’ve had with their teenage son or daughter before they go out at night?
Not the same!! Just one example
It is very sad but slavery and discrimination have indeed existed since time began. Go back to biblical times, and look at what Moses had to go through to convince the Pharoh to let his people go! They were slaves were they not? I don’t believe that everyone was white I think that there was brown and black also. Whatever you want to call it racism or discrimination it ends up being the same it’s because of your skin color. So it’s a never-ending story so unless aliens attach the world then I will see humanity uniting LOL! God Help Us!
We are God’s people all of us, no one should own another human being.
Slavery is and was wrong but implying that black men in prisons are slaves is a joke…I worked in a prison for over 20 years…it blew my mind how many young black men never got past the 9th grade in school yet had 4-7 kids by 3-4 different women….the majority of these women were white…and expected these women to put money on their books. They are there because they committed crimes, mostly multiple times, before they ever got sentenced to prison….lots of slaps on the hand before that ….you have to learn to take responsibility for your own actions….the white man didn’t put you there, you put yourself….Put God first then family, and try to better yourself and quit blaming something that has been outlawed since 1865. If you have kids take care of them…Nuff said, 95% never listen anyways!! As the author stated only, 13% of the USA’s population is black, but one would think 50% if you watch TV and commercials etc. White women are causing the majority of issues in race relations though Obama certainly didn’t help bring the Country together!!
Nailed it!
Not one individual white man but a system fashioned by white ideology of superiority that was built and forged off of 400 years in inequality. It is time for the ancestors of these white progenitors to take responsibility for the system that was built to oppress African, native American indigenous, and Mexican peoples. Stop making excuses and see the reality of the long shadow that slavery has cast here in America. The land of the free the home of the brave. I say the land built off greed and the home where black African peoples were stolen, murdered, raped, dehumanized, traumatized, and enslaved. Then were denied reparations and blamed for their own oppression.
I like following all info on the past and the future of people of all color and the problem that exist today, while many are being incarcerated and being use and under paid as if they are enslaved still.
I’m over 80 years old and have been insulted, name calling, and threaten by official for no reason just being black. the system is messed up, come on let’s get it together we’re all in this together.
What bothers me is the fact that slavery is alive and well all over the world but the U.S. gets the flack for it. How come no one raises an eyebrow about the slave markets in Nigeria, or the slaves in China or the Middle East? I could go on but you get the gist. People in North Korea are the next best thing to slavery. Our prisons are chock full of black inmates b/c black people commit most of the crimes. Look up the stastics.
13% of the population can’t commit “most” of the crimes.
One very important detail that has been left out of all of the discusions is ” who owned the ships” that transported the enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
America ended slavery the evil British monarchy brought it to our beautiful country. Abraham Lincoln is regarded as a great president. I like the presidents that didn’t get us into wars better.
Most of the world (including the Northern States and Canada) were able to rid itself of the evil of slavery without wars sadly it took us a horrible war to resolve it and as the stories above show it did not resolve it enough. Our politically correct narratives are often not the best.
This article is a load of crap! Blacks were NOT the only slaves yet that’s all we hear about because it benefits them tremendously! Slavery ended a long long time ago yet the victim mentality lingers because the blacks use it to benefit them even though they were never slaves at all. The most racism in today’s world is in fact down by blacks. Why you ask? Once again they benefit from it ie welfare, housing , education ( free food) and the lust goes on and on. There’s not one self sufficient, productive Black Country in the world. I guess you’ll blame that on being slaves too? Or the fact that they were sold into slavery by their own people. Last but not least you brought being incarcerated. People are not put into jail because they’ve done nothing wrong it’s because they break the laws!!! It’s actually pathetic that such a small percentage of people commit the vast majority of all crime in America. Slavery was a bad thing should have never happened but once again blacks were not the only slaves yet that’s the ONLY race that keeps it front and center! Why? Because it benefits them!
You are 100% correct but also some cultures refuse to change, and why not? There is nothing wrong with “in Rome live like the Romans do”! As of today, their environment has a major influence (where they live), inner city etc. Of course black lives matter, all lives matter. Today there is a lot of blame to go around. I wish all cultures will take responsibility for the good and bad. Personally I believe the most serious problem is economics and greed. And then the culture war only makes it worse. The rich will never feel rich if everybody was rich. FACT, end of story!
Joe Perry
Boy, o,boy how unlearned you read, sound. Yes. Slavery is ancient and everyone type of human on earth had their experiences. However, the distinct later exclusive target of black people as the only designated people to be enslaved is the issue. Also, America practiceed a particularlly brutally cruel form of slavery. After the civil war the enslaved we’re given nothing, no monies. No land, no education, etc. then another 100 years up to today of Jim Crow. Ku klux , klan, white terror mobs, discrimination on every level. The Black crime rate is artificially high because of perpetual white racism never being held to account. It always amazes me how Black America continues to survive and even thrive under such constant hostility to their dreams, hopes and aspirations. Brother , you surely don’t have a clue and you need to check your hard heart, go back to the books, talk with wise elders of good character. Amen.
Spot on Joe 👍
I worked as a secretary to the man that ran Death Row, Administrative Segregation, and Detention Unit at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, and I can tell you this …. the prisoners in that unit were of all colors, shapes and sizes.
The truth is that black people do not commit most of the crimes in the United States. They are more often likely to be arrested and sent to prison and jails instead of white people. White people are less likely to be arrested for the same crimes, and when arrested are more likely to be given probation or let go. That is the reason you have so many black people in prison today. And none of you have spoken completely clear about past enslavements from around the world. But we are where we are now and yes 400 years still in packs black people whose forefathers were enslaved. It is called post traumatic slave disorder.
No one in this post talked about the white people who were slaves at this time. This post states the people in jails at 13%, ok what about the other 87% of this population, what is their race base? Yes, this is a big problem in this country, but you have to look at the big picture as a whole before we can start to fix the problem. I know there be a lot of people that will not agree with this and get upset over this, this is ok because this is how I see this.
Does Africa take any responsibility in the slave trade? That’s where it all started!
No, many Africans do not take responsibility for their part but I tell you neither do the ancestors of the white colonizers that actually stole them put them on ships brought them to these shores, raped, murdered, beat them, enslaved them for their whole life and all their children after that for hundreds of years, lynched them, incarcerated them, hated them, denied them their humanity and equal distribution of land and resources.
Just 2 points to be made: 1) 400 years ago exploiting slaves was legal, not illegal. 2) Incarcerated African Americans earn the same as incarcerated European Americans. Both groups are being exploited, so why only focus on one group?
The other fact left out is that slavery is being practiced today in the US. It is now under a different moniker, human trafficking. The Biden administration let in 20 million illegals. Hundreds of thousands of these are slaves, including 500,000 unaccompanied children, who are enslaved. The Democratic Party has gone back to its roots as slave traders. How many stories have been written in the corporate media about human trafficking, sex trafficking, pedophilia? The only person who has given serious attention to this and ending this evil is Donald J. Trump. And the Democrats hate him for it.
Joe Perry
Boy, o,boy how unlearned you read, sound. Yes. Slavery is ancient and everyone type of human on earth had their experiences. However, the distinct later exclusive target of black people as the only designated people to be enslaved is the issue. Also, America practiceed a particularlly brutally cruel form of slavery. After the civil war the enslaved we’re given nothing, no monies. No land, no education, etc. then another 100 years up to today of Jim Crow. Ku klux , klan, white terror mobs, discrimination on every level. The Black crime rate is artificially high because of perpetual white racism never being held to account. It always amazes me how Black America continues to survive and even thrive under such constant hostility to their dreams, hopes and aspirations. Brother , you surely don’t have a clue and you need to check your hard heart, go back to the books, talk with wise elders of good character. Amen.
Incarcerated inmates of all races “Earn” these type “Wages”. What don’t you socialists get? They are INMATES in Prison, They are lucky to get any type of wages for working at all Its certainly not slavery and you should be ashamed for trying to say it has anything to do about slavery.
America is in denial. This country started by killing (slaughtering) of the Native Indians who lived here. Took their land and gave them small settlements to live. They treated black slaves horribly, beatings, rape, burning, buck breaking (look it up) and hard and harsh labor. America’s attitude towards Native Indians and Black’s have not changed. Even our laws and business practices are discriminatory. I see no chang any time soon. As long as the power dynamics remain the same (politics and money) thing will go on as usual (the norm). Look at the current administration. Blatant racism. Nuff said
I was hoping for some true facts. Instead we get a few purposed opinions. NOT HISTORY!!
It seems you are trying to say that black men are in prison for being black. Did these people commit crimes? The days of black men being put in prison so they could be forced to work as slaves on farms are past. The Civil War did not end slavery. Society has changed and technology has changed. It seems today, we allow illegal immigrants into our country to slave on our farms and in our businesses.
Slaves never fought back
> never heard that.
They ran away from enslavement to commit infractions
> Never heard that.
Compared to field slaves, home slaves had better lives
> Never heard that. (But the stories my slave ancestor told my mother about being a house slave weren’t as bad as the stories they told her about the field slaves). My
Racism ended with abolition
> Never heard that.
Slavery isn’t active anymore
Never heard that argument regarding that topic. The reason African Americans make up such a large percentage of the prison population is that we commit crimes at far higher rates than the white population and often don’t have the resources to afford the representation in court necessary to avoid incarceration. (That isn’t slavery, that’s incarceration/punishment for committing crimes.). There’s a difference between the two.
In my opinion this article is as much a race baiter as Al sharptom and comrade Barry The only myth of slavery is that by continuing to live in the past you will change the future and if you try and say that slavery is synonymous with racism, you’re an ignorant bigot yourself. Or,..or if you try an equate the prison system and criminals to slavery you’re worse: a Useful idiot and / or a Marxist fool.
Yes slavery happened. Yes it was one of the horrific parts of human history. Racism is part of human nature. Doubt it will completely disappear. Slavery still exists to this date for a variety of reasons. Ask an Islamic Muslim about nonbelievers that are spared death.
It’s much easier to embrace victimhood than to realize you have nothing of value but service to others.
It is interesting to hear and read about different views and ideas people have about the subject/ I try live day to day on how we are treated as human beings and I try not to let anything cloud my thoughts/ views/the way I am treated. God is my provider, protector and my shield.
I learned/heard about some mentioned subjects. I feel and hurt for our people that went through what they went through, that include my ancestors/family. As a people we have come a long way, yet we have a long way to go for equality. I pray that God continues to raise up strong warriors that continue fight for us and our future generations.
The first legal slave was decided by a civil case, Casor v Johnson 1654/1655. Prior to this there were indentured servants, which normally had a seven year indentureship. Upon completion they were given, by contract, items relating to their making a living. Johnson had been an indentured servant and upon completion of his indenture he was given land, a mule, farming, and cash according to his contract. His wife had also been an I dentured household servant. Upon her completion she was given household goods and cash according to her contract. Casor indenture contract was Inheiratided by Johnson when another farmer that originally held Casor contract died and willed it to Johnson. The court decision made Casor the first legal slave I the Colonies. Both Johnson and Casor, the Colonies first slave owner and slave were black.
Sure, sounds like the author of this article was a person of color and neglected to include that the slaves were captured in Africa by members of an opposing tribe and sold to both black and white slave traders, it was not soley a white on black issue. It is a fact that slavery was an issue back then and it was a common practice to enslave others for the benefit of the populace in charge. It is a shame that this is the way it was, but that is the way it was back then and there were slaves that were kept by both whites and people of color, including the native Americans that made slaves of the captured members of other tribes! This occurred in both North and South America!
As a white male. I see racism growing not demishing over time. Why? Because the far left propagate this division.
From the beginning, do you think white or jews stepped foot on african soll to track down the african people? NO, african kings and Queens sold their own people of different tribes to the jew owned ships!!!!
Muslime were the worst of the worst slave Trauerspiel. LEARN TRUE HISTORY, not the Story book u kearn in school!!!
Mankind has been enslaving its own people since we walked on this planet ,you people are delusional ,African people still have the worst track record of enslaving their own people and unbelievable corruption,so what ,I will not live in Africa period ,all races ,colors,religions behave badly ,making one human unique is retarded ,the last thing always mentioned about slavery was the fact they sold their own tribes for a profit period ,I love all mankind , races period ,I despise bullshit
Wow! So many people will say (and do) anything to deny, minimize, avert attention from or rewrite the horrific atrocities of the slave trade to America and its deeply ingrained racism that persists to this day. The fact that slavery, in some form, has existed all over the world is no excuse for its existence in the land of the free and the home of the brave.