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On my drive to work I had Beck on for a few minutes. He was promoting this cruise on history through, I believe, the Mediterranean. Anyway, they started yammering on slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Do you guys know what percent of the slave trade the US was involved with? 4%. FOUR percent. Brazil? Fiddy percent. FIFTY. And we're the bad guys on the international stage. Â
I guess my motivation for bringing this up is to start looking into the groups always trashing the US. Where they get their funding etc... As it becomes more and more apparent to me that these blemishes on our nation's past are now just openings for enemies to exploit and further divide this nation.
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You should look up who was the first slave owner in the USA.
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That's because the spanish had the encomiendas-haciendas for sugar production for Europe and other ports. The use of natives didn't work in the brutal plantation production either. The Triangular trade involved slaves, sugar, rum and finished goods between Africa, N America, and the Europeans.  The use of cotton had not yet grown to being KING cotton till the cotton gin revolutionized the industry in late 1700s-early 1800s. By then the slave trade was outlawed per se and a large domestic slave population in US existed for cotton.
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(06-06-2019, 09:12 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: On my drive to work I had Beck on for a few minutes. He was promoting this cruise on history through, I believe, the Mediterranean. Anyway, they started yammering on slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Do you guys know what percent of the slave trade the US was involved with? 4%. FOUR percent. Brazil? Fiddy percent. FIFTY. And we're the bad guys on the international stage. Â
I guess my motivation for bringing this up is to start looking into the groups always trashing the US. Where they get their funding etc... As it becomes more and more apparent to me that these blemishes on our nation's past are now just openings for enemies to exploit and further divide this nation.
I was called racist because I mentioned facts about who owned slaves in the US. I also was called racist for mentioning who freed slaves in the US. I was really hated for telling those in the classroom I freed more people of color than anybody in the entire school combined.
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(06-06-2019, 10:12 AM)lrrps21 Wrote: (06-06-2019, 09:12 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: On my drive to work I had Beck on for a few minutes. He was promoting this cruise on history through, I believe, the Mediterranean. Anyway, they started yammering on slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Do you guys know what percent of the slave trade the US was involved with? 4%. FOUR percent. Brazil? Fiddy percent. FIFTY. And we're the bad guys on the international stage. Â
I guess my motivation for bringing this up is to start looking into the groups always trashing the US. Where they get their funding etc... As it becomes more and more apparent to me that these blemishes on our nation's past are now just openings for enemies to exploit and further divide this nation.
I was called racist because I mentioned facts about who owned slaves in the US. I also was called racist for mentioning who freed slaves in the US. I was really hated for telling those in the classroom I freed more people of color than anybody in the entire school combined. Remember, you are a Nazi too. Never forget that.
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Fewer than 350,000 enslaved people were imported into the Thirteen Colonies and the U.S., constituting less than 5% of the twelve million enslaved people brought from Africa to the Americas. The great majority of enslaved Africans were transported to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil.
That's from wiki. Most of the US slaves were descendents of the first once.
There were about 4 million slaves in the US in 1860, some of course in states that did not secede, and who were not freed by the Emancipation.
Thus, over 90% of US slaves were "home grown".
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(06-06-2019, 10:18 AM)dkeener67 Wrote: (06-06-2019, 10:12 AM)lrrps21 Wrote: (06-06-2019, 09:12 AM)ScarletHayes Wrote: On my drive to work I had Beck on for a few minutes. He was promoting this cruise on history through, I believe, the Mediterranean. Anyway, they started yammering on slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Do you guys know what percent of the slave trade the US was involved with? 4%. FOUR percent. Brazil? Fiddy percent. FIFTY. And we're the bad guys on the international stage. Â
I guess my motivation for bringing this up is to start looking into the groups always trashing the US. Where they get their funding etc... As it becomes more and more apparent to me that these blemishes on our nation's past are now just openings for enemies to exploit and further divide this nation.
I was called racist because I mentioned facts about who owned slaves in the US. I also was called racist for mentioning who freed slaves in the US. I was really hated for telling those in the classroom I freed more people of color than anybody in the entire school combined. Remember, you are a Nazi too. Never forget that.
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The US wasn't heavily involved in the slave trade. But we were heavily involved in owning and exploiting slaves. I don't see this as some mitigating factor. Brazil was worse. So?
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The 'truth' is obscured and not known, nor cared about.
We, as a country, committed evil deeds in the slave business. We are still reaping the consequences of that.....150 years later.
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I wonder if those sharks are still patrolling that route?
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Wear any type of diamond from Africa? A slave dug it up. Wear Nike shoes? A slave sewed them. Use an iPhone? Slave labor assembled it.
Yeah, people are so 'concerned' about slavery.
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(06-06-2019, 11:18 AM)TakeThePoints Wrote: I wonder if those sharks are still patrolling that route?
Yes, the ecosystem changed so sharks would follow slave ships. The sharks consumed the slaves thrown overboard.Â
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