In case you haven’t been around Twitter or Facebook because, well, you work for a living, today is the 150th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Not up on your Amendments past five? That’s cool, we’ve got you covered. The 13th Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude (unless you were tossed in prison for being a scurvy turncoat). Let it not go unsaid that it was Western civilization which abolished slavery. Neither America nor western civilization invented slavery, despite what leftists may tell you. Slavery was a horrible thing, but invented thousands of years before smallpox blankets were not given to the Indigenous peoples (we went there for our Thanksgiving video).
Keeping all that in mind, watch this:
So this Berkeley professor makes it sound like Westerners slipped on their long john silvers, jumped off their galleons, and shiver me timbers, AFRICANS! Why, I think I shall take me one of them there black folk and make him my slave.
Sorry, late trigger warning: slave jokes.
Except as pointed out, many of the slaves had already been enslaved by…wait for it…other Africans.
So many busted narratives.
Review: Slavery was horrible. People of any skin color who went out hunting for people to enslave were despicable people. A lot like our modern day abortion doctors, who subject tiny humans to brutality before killing them.
Some years later, this swinging place called America happened and it eventually abolished slavery. Not without a lot of fuss from people who probably had chants like “if you’re against slavery, don’t own a slave,” or “keep slavery safe and legal” or “people are going to have slaves anyway, might as well make it legal.”
Am I using this gif because he’s black…? No, that’s racist.
Darn it, did it again. Late trigger warning: abortion references to slavery. But hey, Ben Carson linked abortion and slavery too. He’s blacker than me, he can play that card…
Dismissive history is the best history.
They dismiss the fact that Africans enslaved Africans, and captured Africans for the western slave traders. And you dismiss the nearly 250 years of horrific slavery practiced by wealthy land-owners when you say: “Some years later, this swinging place called America happened and it eventually abolished slavery. ”
Bons mots, monsieur
Except the title of the article is “Berkeley falsely teaches students that Americans invented slavery”. Which he definitely did. After objectively proving his point, what need was there to spend a great deal of time reminding other Americans of the atrocity of slave ownership? Guess what, we KNOW, each February every Caucasian schoolkid in America gets to feel bad for being white of skin.
You can’t be dismissive of something you weren’t trying to illuminate and expound upon in the first place, silly.
The 250 years of Western slavery was only practiced in the New Wrold by United States for 90 years. This is stil bad but it is unfair to claim 250 years of slavery agsint the Untied States. also it was only about 2% of the US population that owned slaves. This is hardly a majorty practice. The slavery of African’s in the Western World or in the Americas as hsould probably be stated, was also preceded by 500 years of Muslim slavery of Africans which is still being practiced today.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist.4.html
This is another interesting point of history along the same lines, that slavery was not limited to Caucasians, but was practiced by African/African-Americans in the 13 colonies, as well.
What is also dismissed is slavery still exists, even here, but ot is still rampant especially in Africa, the Middle East and many so-called third world countries.
Hey everybody: let’s go to MAURITANIA!!!!! where ARAB MUSLIMS ENSLAVE OVER 1,000,000 BLACK AFRICANS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh right, shhhhhhhhh!!!! The UN has not called this out yet. we’ll wait……….. and wait……and wait some more…… BASH ISRAEL!!!!
It’s amazing that anyone would claim that Americans invented slavery let alone someone that supposedly knows better.
Yes, Caucasions, Africans, Muslims and another group . . . Jews! Yes, Jews were also slave traders for past 2,000 years. They were responsible for bringing Africans to America and they also owned many plantations and many slaves.
Jean .. Are you saying Jews were bringing slaves to America for 2000 years ? or that they owned Plantations and slaves in America ? or both ? if so where did you get that because there is no record of any Jew owning even one Plantation in America and only 15 out of 1000s of slave ships were owned by Jews and of the 15 they were chartered and ran by others owning a ship s not the same as running it . a lot of the slave trade was mostly done by muslims and Portuguese
Uriah Phillips Levy bought and sold slaves. He owned Jefferson’s Monticello. Indeed there were Jews in the south who owned slaves. That is but one.
The African Slavers weren’t just African.. they were Muslim. No one talks about that
No one talks about the Irish slaves, which numbered far more than black ones in America.
Because to do so would be a lie.
Well *there’s* your problem: she said West Africans were so lazy that they couldn’t avoid capture and enslavement! Like allowing a fool to keep his money, I suppose it’d be just as sinful not to enslave bums too lazy to run away.
The whole plan laid out many decades ago by the left was first and fore most gain total control of the education system (which they did). From that point the very foundation the lefts overall strategy relied upon could begin. First teach a revised view of U.S. history that made America the villin and oppressor of non whites and weaker, poorer nations. That the nation was illegitimately founded and who’s wealth is stolen. Secondly teach civics and the constitution less and less till not at all. The result being as we see more and more today is several generations that despise their nation, do not understand or know how their government is set up and how it works nor what is actually in the constitution how it effects the government at all 3 levels and what it protects them from in regards to what government can and can not do to them because of rights they have under the constitution. This last part is important because the lefts plan to replace the representative republic with central ruling federal govt. is a population that is ignorant of exactly what rights they have, and what the government is prohibited from doing so that when those rights are eliminated the people won’t push back against the government because they won’t notice the loss of rights that they didn’t know they had to start with. The left is patient, they know eventually the generations that know whats what will eventually be gone or old and few.
all lies. the percentage of blacks who owned slaves in the US was way higher than the percent of whites who owned slaves. Yankee historians and revisionists conveniently leave out this truth! also that “slaves” were paid wages with which the entrepreneurial one used to buy their freedom and purchase other slaves. however things were tricky as there was a lot of responsibility to be manumitted. it was truly easier and a “choice’ of the majority to remain a slave with an owner and a place to belong. in fact this was so much preferred by slaves that even “freemen” would approach slave owners and ask to be bought so they could have a place to belong. people today have no idea this is how things were in truth. you will never get the truth from northern historians. only read histories by southern writers, please…