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A generation of Americans is being raised on half-truths and lies about the history of slavery in America. They are given the impression that America was uniquely bad and that American slavery was uniquely bad. They learn nothing about slavery elsewhere. Among the many lies they are told are that “black slaves built America” and that America is systemically racist.
Since the only mortal enemy of the Left is truth, here are some truths about slavery.
AMERICA’S SLAVERY COMPARED TO SLAVERY ELSEWHERE
If you are interested in morality and committed to truth, you do not ask, “Who had slaves?” You ask, “Who ended slavery?”
Who had slaves?
Every civilization throughout history had slaves: Asian societies, Africans, Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples around the world, and the Muslim/Arab world, which may have had the most slaves of all.
Who ended slavery?
There was only one thing unique about slavery in the West: It raised the issue of the morality of slavery, ferociously debated it and finally abolished it there, before it was abolished in any other civilization. If you care about moral truth rather than, for example, promoting America-hatred, you must recognize — and you must teach — that America was one of the first slave-holding societies to abolish slavery. This even includes Africa. Cornell professor Sandra Greene, a black scholar of African history, notes, “Slavery in the United States ended in 1865, but in West Africa it was not legally ended until 1875, and then it stretched on unofficially until almost World War I.”
The numbers of slaves
According to the authoritative SlaveVoyages.org, the total number of black slaves imported from Africa into America was 305,326. The number of black slaves other countries imported from Africa into the rest of the New World — i.e., into the Caribbean and South America — was 12,521,337. In other words, other countries imported 41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere than the United States did (including the years before American independence). Yet, the American Left never mentions this important moral point — because the Left-controlled education system suppresses facts it finds inconvenient, and the Left is not interested in morality or truth, but in vilifying America.
And then there is Arab/Muslim enslavement of blacks. Professor Paul Lovejoy, in his “Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa” (Cambridge University Press, 2012), reveals that from the beginning of Islam in the 7th century through the year 1600, the estimated number of Africans enslaved by Muslims was about 7 million. After 1600, it was about a million per year. Do American students ever learn about the Arab/Muslim slave trade? How many know, for example, that a great percentage of the African male slaves were castrated so that they could not have families?
“BLACK SLAVES BUILT AMERICA.”
This is another lie of the Left.
Those who make this argument point to the lucrative cotton manufacturing and trade in the 19th-century — the industry in which black slaves were primarily used in the American South.
But University of Illinois professor of Economics, Deirdre McCloskey, answered this:
“Growing cotton, unlike sugar or rice, never required slavery. By 1870, freedmen and whites produced as much cotton as the South produced in the slave time of 1860. Cotton was not a slave crop in India or in southwest China, where it was grown in bulk… That slaves produced cotton does not imply that they were essential or causal in the production…
“The United States and the United Kingdom and the rest would have become just as rich without the 250 years of unrequited toil. They have remained rich, observe, even after the peculiar institution was abolished, because their riches did not depend on its sinfulness.”
But one need not know anything about cotton to understand how false “Black slaves built America” is. All you need is common sense.
First, even if slavery accounted for much of the wealth of the South, the Civil War that brought slavery to an end in the United States wiped out nearly all of that wealth and cost the Union billions (in today’s dollars).
Second, if slavery built the American economy, the most robust economy in world history, why didn’t Brazil become an economic superpower? Brazil imported four million black slaves, about 12 times as many as America. Why did the slave-owning American South lag so far behind the North economically? Why did England, which, though it played a major role in the transatlantic slave trade until the beginning of the 19th century, had almost no slaves, become the most advanced economy of the 19th century?
“Black slaves built America” is left-wing propaganda to vilify America and to discredit capitalism.
“America is systemically racist.”
This is the Great Left Lie.
Four million black people have emigrated to the United States since the 1960s — and tens of millions more would if they could. Are they all fools? Why would anyone move to a country that is systemically bigoted against them? Did any Jews emigrate to Germany in the 1930s?
Blacks have emigrated to the United States because they know what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the black woman who fled her homeland of Somalia and who now writes and lectures in America, knows:
“What the media do not tell you is that America is the best place on the planet to be black, female, gay, trans or what have you.”
Blacks emigrating to America know what Algerian writer Kamel Daoud, writing in Le Monde and Le Point, knows:
“It is forbidden to say that the West is also the place to which we flee when we want to escape the injustice of our country of origin, dictatorship, war, hunger, or simply boredom. It is fashionable to say that the West is guilty of everything.”
As regards American slavery and everything else, always remember this: Truth is a liberal value, and truth is a conservative value. It is not a left-wing value.
How many did the Left Enslave to build their weapons?
Bio weapons? Or conventional?
I asked my Nigerian friend about slavery and he told me that African chiefs would have their slaves buried alive with them when they died.
I’m seeing more and more YouTube clips of black Americans running across these facts, and they’re rightfully pissed-off when they realize the Left has lied to them for so long.
I think a cool animated clip of these numbers should be created…
A graph or pie chart showing what “41 times the number of black slaves into the Western Hemisphere than the United States” looks like.
A mere sliver of pie.
I’ve often wondered what will happen to the democrat party if ever “the black community,” figures out how cynically they’ve been played by the left. The leaders know, but they’re living well and getting rich on it.
These truths will never be widely spread, because they do not fit the narrative, and they fly in the face of the leftists who demand reparations. And of course, black people could never claim again that they are oppressed or victims of the big bad white guy, right?
If America is systemically racist, then Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey et al are either house you-know-whats who willingly help keep their own down, are too stupid to realize it or, as Mr. Prager states, it’s the second worst worst blood-libel in history.
Oprah is a thankless lying hypocrite.
One: she and all of Hollywood KNEW all along what a lecherous sexual abuser Harvey Weinstein was. (Oprah gladly had her picture taken with him.) We know that they knew, because Seth NacFarlane casually joked about it at an Oscar ceremony.
As long as Harvey shoveled mega donations to woke candidates, leftists didn’t care – indeed even ran cover for him.
Two: Oprah couldn’t resist lying about her being the subject of racism at a store, Trois Pomme, in Zurich. (She though it’d be a way to help promote her dull movie “The Butler”.)
However, when the clerk refused to be slandered & pointed to video – determined to confront the narrative, Oprah quickly dropped the story – hoping the press wouldn’t follow up with annoying questions.
Does even even occur to that dumbbitch that she has benefited so well because of America?
Had she been born in Somalia she’d be wearing a potato sack, scrubbing pots & pans, and suffering from the affects of her childhood clitorectomy.
Yes, black slaves built the country. Also, Cleopatra (Macedonian) was black and “systemic racism” is responsible for all negative outcomes for blacks. Got it.
Wasn’t Charlemagne black?
And Anne Boleyn. And Queen Charlotte.
Of course. He must have been.
One guy Tippu Tip, oddly enough black, owned 100,000 slaves at a time. Why didn’t he have a space program?
Tippu Tip, aka as , real name Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jumʿah ibn Rajab ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd al Murjabī (Arabic: حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي), was an Afro-Omani ivory and slave trader, explorer, governor and plantation owner.
Was a Muslim & Muslims are sanctioned to own slaves as Mohammad instructed them.
Racism goes back to the earliest centuries of Islam. With slavery having been sanctioned by the example of Muhammad, Muslim Arab slavers entered east Africa to seize black Africans, the men to be workers, the women to be domestic servants and sex slaves, and the young boys to serve as eunuchs in the harems of the Islamic world. These boys were castrated in situ, with many dying during the painful surgery or during the long march, in slave coffles, to the coast, where the Africans would be taken by dhows from Pemba, across the Red Sea, to Arabia and the slave markets of Islam.
The academy is slavery now.
Liberals, Academics and other “race baiters” act as if America in the 1700’s was the “epicenter” of the evil of slavery. That lie is the real evil that totally ignores history. In fact, more white Europeans were enslaved by Muslims of the Barbary coast between 1530 and 1780 (up to 1.25 million) than were ever transported to America. And that slaves in the U.S. were just .03 of the world’s slave population at the time; which was primarily in Asia, India, and South America. And, oh yeah, almost every country in the world (and even including Native American Indians) since the beginning of recorded history has made slaves of their vanquished enemies. Politicians and educators ignore historical facts to indoctrinate our youth with their perverted and racist ideology to divide us and paint blacks as perpetual “victims” to keep them on the Democratic “plantation”.
Democrats aren’t interested in the truth. Truth does not validate lying and cheating.
Back in the mid 1990s I told a young black American guy that Africans kidnapped and sold other Africans to the European Slave Traders to which he freaked out screaming at me that Im a racist white dude cause ”his people” cant be no racist and shit, as only YOU white people can be racist… then he walked away..
I wonder if he still thinks that or have since found out that what I told him was an Historical truth.
The average uneducated Negro in the USA is so ignorant of their own history in America and this can be seen in listening to what they say and asking them basic historical questions.
Remember when Trump called Baltimore a Rat infested City and the DemocRATS instantly thought of black people… Yeah that’s how you control people…
If you vote for Trump then you aint black…Old Joe..
I hope black folks in America wake up and take note of the history of the DemocRAT Party and act accordingly.
Perhaps they would be better off listening to Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder,Ben Carson rather than Snoop Doggie Poo or any other racist angry Rap moron,
Mauritania has maintained slavery, although officially it was outlawed in 1981.
Libya has slave auctions. Illegal migrants in the US have been trapped in virtual slavery, including children.
There still is an issue with slavery today.
My ancestors owned slaves. When Andrew Jackson put them onto the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, they took thousands of their slaves with them.
They’ll never read the truth about slavery in those test books written by the leftists
Have you responded to Paul Anthony Dottin, “The Hydra of Horowitzian History,” DuBois Review, published online by Cambridge University Press, 6 November 2008?
I gave David Horowitz’s book on the Floyd scam in “The Quarterly Review” and I am working on an article about slavery inside Negro Africa.
[I am using my wife’s computer/URL at present.]