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Jul 25, 2022·edited Jul 25, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

people have owned slaves for a very long time. Captives from wars always seem to have ended up as slaves. Rome had slaves. The MIddle Ages had slaves. I have seen a film about the houses in Africa where slaves departed for the US. I think that one was from Guinee or from Mali, it was not in Benin. I had already wondered, how Europeans would venture into the wilderness and capture healthy young men and women. They would get lost, and be unable to catch any of the natives I am sure. As for mistreating people - that is not new, either. How many people are harassed at work? Is paying your employees an wage too low to live off, slavery? Is it right not to give your employees paid vacation? paid sick time? Europe is in these things way ahead of the US. They have 4 weeks of paid vacation, a number of paid holidays (Christmas, Easter monday, national holidays) and a secure income even when you get sick. Here - nothing ! I know several people who don't even get a retirement. It looks admirable that people work till they are 100, but they might need to or they die for hunger ! Is that not a kind of slavery ?

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

I think both income taxes and especially property taxes are a form of slavery too.

A very important part.

You can't just retire and live with a wood stove and a candle. You still have to pay property taxes no matter how old you are.

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

The American citizen knows more about Abraham Lincoln from the "Vampire Slayer" movie than any history book/class.

I once spoke to a group of high school students and only a few had ever heard of Guadalcanal and half of them saw it on TV.

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

We certainly are being destroyed by divisiveness. As for slavery, further facts in addition to valid point, always overlooked, brought be 2nd smartest. There is probably no-one in the US who does not have ancestors who were slaves. Slavery was constant throughout history across the world - not something unique to this nation in its early days. If one was in a community of any size and it was over run, then two choices, and not voluntary either - death or slavery. Anyone who has an ancestor, and that includes all, then that person has ancestors who were slaves. It was not, nor is it, a white vs black issue. The practice was universal. Shame our history teachings are ignorant of history.

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Jul 25, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

You highlight interesting facts regarding the slave trade, indentured servitude, segregation and the reasoning at the time for the way things worked back in those specific eras. However, slavery was and will always be anathema to freedom as long as it exists. Today's slave-master can be tomorrow's slave, and slavery can only be maintained through violence or the threat of it. Using these facts to try to excuse what happened only plays into the revisionist's hands.

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In the 50's in NC it was Racist but without hatred. It was just Tribal with White ascendency. There were Blacks in their upper and middle class, owning Black banks, insurance companies, restaurants with good food where Whites got "take out".

Segregation with More Opportunity would have accomplished a better society imo but We are Where We Are. My hope is that Blacks will take Responsibility for their own Tribe, but democRats will never let their fellow Blacks off the Socialist Plantation.

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Thank you. 🙏

Eyes are opening and I pray that in the process the true facts about our history will be realized.

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BBC a few months ago had an interesting documentary on lost Empires of Africa ... seems same kind of lining ...

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Interesting and thought-provoking article. I placed a link to it into one of my articles,

https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/are-you-a-racist-am-i

Please, proofread your article and correct the typos; there is an unusually large number of them.

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Excellent article. Thank you!

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absolutely brilliant article.

Roberts continues to be fearless...

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I need to read this, but everything we witness and experience today must be seen through the prism of the War of Inversion.

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Only 500,000 of the 10 million slaves taken from Africa came to British North America. Even after the importation of slaves trickled to a halt after the Revolution the Slave Population grew rapidly due to population growth. Contrast this with the Caribbean and other slave regions run by Italian and Spanish slave owners. They we're worked to death and had to be continuously replaced. Population only grew once the slavery ended due to economic reasons or rebellion.

Slaves in North America were considered valuable capital. The bankers realized too much profit was being eaten up caring for the young and old, and providing food, housing and healthcare. Wage slavery would be much better so the City of London took the initiative in banning slavery. It took the Civil War to end slavery in the US but they soon realized ending slavery would mean they could replace mans labour with machinery and the men operating the machinery would be less valuable than the machines. Human Capital was thus replaced with non-human Capital.

The jobless would migrate to the Cities where they would work at a pittance in factories due to a surplus of labour. After their long shifts they were on their own when it came to raising a family, housing, health care, food, etc and losing their job meant misery or death

The same is being played out today but this time the useless class or surplus labour will have nowhere to go but as a protein source for the few workers left (Soylent Green)

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I took Black World Studies at Miami University and Professor Rodney Coates presented source material that made it very clear that Dahomey had enslaved black africans and sold them to slave traders. We spoke about this aspect of slavery in discussions in class as well. You should be more careful about making sweeping generalizations about what is taught at universities. The version of things that is represented in public facing propaganda is generally not the same as the things taught in academic programs. This is part of how a psyop works and how well-meaning critiques are dismissed on the basis of inaccuracies.

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Dude, this piece is an atrocity. Insultingly ahistorical to anyone who's researched American slavery. I don't even know where to begin. First, slaves were nothing more than economic tools. They were often literally worked to death, especially in the sugar plantations of Mississippi. Why? Economics. It was cheaper to work them to death than to let them work slower, or use more slaves, and to keep and feed them year round. This is a historical fact. They were treated like farm animals, fed like farm animals, just enough crap food to keep them going. This piece reads like one of those atrocious "Hitler was a great leader, the truth about him has been all lies!" tropes. Really it's that bad. Read Frederick Law Olmstead's accounts from the time itself, or the journals of Frances Kemble. Plenty of first hand accounts from the actual period describing

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Dude, this piece is an atrocity. Insultingly ahistorical to anyone who's researched American slavery.

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