August 26, 2019
More on American Slavery
Timothy Birdnow
More on the discussion on slavery in America.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/slavery-america-not-begin-1619-things-nyts-project-gets-wrong/?fbclid=IwAR1X03O8dKcOOzD6sQteL19sS8vdRmFaYcEAf08NJuU4irsTgXl7C9-MJjc#.XWArKC3Tb30.facebook
I wrote about slavery in America here with details not mentioned in the Federalist article. The Federalist gives details I hadn't mentioned, too.
For instance:
And let us not forget that the Native Americans of whom liberals are so enamoured were slaveholders long before the coming of the white man. In fact, many fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War to protect their right to own slaves.
Slavery is not some uniquely American sin; it is ubiquitous to the human species. It should be pointed out that slavery was a viable institution because there was no other way of doing the work that needed doing. Industrialism - the thing absolutely hated by so many modern Progressives - was as much responsible for ending slavery as anything; we could use machines to do the dirty, unpleasant tasks performed by slaves. That is why Environementalists are so monstrously wrong; they seek a return to the old slave days. They don't realize that is what will happen but something has to do the work and without machinery to do it, that something will be people. "Paradise" was always on the backs of the poor and the slave. The reality is we live in the true paradise now.
Put THAT in your cannibus pipe and smoke it, you hippies!
More on the discussion on slavery in America.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/23/slavery-america-not-begin-1619-things-nyts-project-gets-wrong/?fbclid=IwAR1X03O8dKcOOzD6sQteL19sS8vdRmFaYcEAf08NJuU4irsTgXl7C9-MJjc#.XWArKC3Tb30.facebook
I wrote about slavery in America here with details not mentioned in the Federalist article. The Federalist gives details I hadn't mentioned, too.
For instance:
Those early slaves in 1619 that The New York Times focuses on arrived on the San Juan Bautista. If that name doesn’t sound English, that’s because it isn’t. It was a Portuguese ship en route to Spanish Mexico. Off the coast of Mexico, it was attacked and captured by English pirates masquerading as Dutch. They sold their enslaved human cargo at Jamestown.
Slavery is no more ‘native’ to the American experience than, well, anything.
From its earliest moments in the Spanish colony of 1526, Puerto Rico in 1513, or even Jamestown in 1619, the truth is that America was a footnote to a larger world of slavery. We did not invent this evil. We enthusiastically embraced it.
But when we explain the role played by slavery, we have to recognize that slavery is no more "native†to the American experience than, well, anything. We stole the first slaves from Portugal. Slavery struggled to "take off†in much of the South because managing a plantation is extremely technical and complicated, and many Americans were not good at it. It was an influx of experienced human traffickers, slave-torturers, and large-scale agribusiness experts from Haiti and other Caribbean colonies in the 1700s that gave much of the Deep South enough "expertise†in the abuse of humanity to develop a thriving slave economy.
[...]
This story of slavery as something somehow "foreign†to many Americans will read as a bit much to many enthusiasts of the 1619 Project. If Americans were so unhappy with slavery, why didn’t they abolish it?
My answer is simple: we did. At the risk of historical absurdity, it must be noted that when Georgia was founded in 1732, slavery was banned, making it the first place in the Western hemisphere to ban slavery. But alas, the appeal of plantation wealth was too great, and by 1752 the King George II (the father of the George we rebelled against) had taken over Georgia as a royal colony, and instituted slavery.
In 1780, still amidst the guns of war, Massachusetts’ constitution rendered enslavement legally unenforceable, and the judiciary soon abolished it.
Thus, in 1775, there was no free soil anywhere in the Western hemisphere. Slavery was a universal law. While I cannot say for certain, it is possible there was no free soil in the entire world—that is, no society that categorically forbade all slavery.
But then something changed. Revolutionary agitation led to war in 1776, and by 1777, Vermont’s de facto secession from New York and New Hampshire created the first modern polity in the western hemisphere to forbid the keeping of slaves. In 1777, war with Britain was barely begun.
Slavery is no more ‘native’ to the American experience than, well, anything.
From its earliest moments in the Spanish colony of 1526, Puerto Rico in 1513, or even Jamestown in 1619, the truth is that America was a footnote to a larger world of slavery. We did not invent this evil. We enthusiastically embraced it.
But when we explain the role played by slavery, we have to recognize that slavery is no more "native†to the American experience than, well, anything. We stole the first slaves from Portugal. Slavery struggled to "take off†in much of the South because managing a plantation is extremely technical and complicated, and many Americans were not good at it. It was an influx of experienced human traffickers, slave-torturers, and large-scale agribusiness experts from Haiti and other Caribbean colonies in the 1700s that gave much of the Deep South enough "expertise†in the abuse of humanity to develop a thriving slave economy.
[...]
This story of slavery as something somehow "foreign†to many Americans will read as a bit much to many enthusiasts of the 1619 Project. If Americans were so unhappy with slavery, why didn’t they abolish it?
My answer is simple: we did. At the risk of historical absurdity, it must be noted that when Georgia was founded in 1732, slavery was banned, making it the first place in the Western hemisphere to ban slavery. But alas, the appeal of plantation wealth was too great, and by 1752 the King George II (the father of the George we rebelled against) had taken over Georgia as a royal colony, and instituted slavery.
In 1780, still amidst the guns of war, Massachusetts’ constitution rendered enslavement legally unenforceable, and the judiciary soon abolished it.
Thus, in 1775, there was no free soil anywhere in the Western hemisphere. Slavery was a universal law. While I cannot say for certain, it is possible there was no free soil in the entire world—that is, no society that categorically forbade all slavery.
But then something changed. Revolutionary agitation led to war in 1776, and by 1777, Vermont’s de facto secession from New York and New Hampshire created the first modern polity in the western hemisphere to forbid the keeping of slaves. In 1777, war with Britain was barely begun.
And let us not forget that the Native Americans of whom liberals are so enamoured were slaveholders long before the coming of the white man. In fact, many fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War to protect their right to own slaves.
Slavery is not some uniquely American sin; it is ubiquitous to the human species. It should be pointed out that slavery was a viable institution because there was no other way of doing the work that needed doing. Industrialism - the thing absolutely hated by so many modern Progressives - was as much responsible for ending slavery as anything; we could use machines to do the dirty, unpleasant tasks performed by slaves. That is why Environementalists are so monstrously wrong; they seek a return to the old slave days. They don't realize that is what will happen but something has to do the work and without machinery to do it, that something will be people. "Paradise" was always on the backs of the poor and the slave. The reality is we live in the true paradise now.
Put THAT in your cannibus pipe and smoke it, you hippies!
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Slavery goes back to prehistory; to when one group of protohumans encountered another such group.
And early history is full of it. After every war -- check out the wars of the classic Greek period, for example -- the winners took the losers as slaves.
And yet our mucked-up "education" system, not to mention our Leftist politicians, would have our students believe slavery is a uniquely American perversion, and only something practiced by whites against blacks. Sad!
And early history is full of it. After every war -- check out the wars of the classic Greek period, for example -- the winners took the losers as slaves.
And yet our mucked-up "education" system, not to mention our Leftist politicians, would have our students believe slavery is a uniquely American perversion, and only something practiced by whites against blacks. Sad!
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at August 26, 2019 09:58 PM (qzo8l)
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Posted by: krogerfeedback at August 26, 2019 10:42 PM (g9GGm)
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You're right, Dana; it's why I said in my earlier post slavery is the oldest profession - at least tied with prostitution for that "honor". It infuriates me that the Left has managed to tar the U.S. with the evil because we had it slightly longer than some European powers.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at August 27, 2019 07:21 AM (oGVs4)
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