My Family Was Here in the 1600s. Did they own slaves? Heirs of Power: Slavery's Descendants

[Libby von H]

Educational pieces. Some parts I may have issue with like choices of language/terms...

But all around great on our shared history.

Heirs of Power​

The forebears of three members of Congress regained – and passed forward – wealth and power their families lost when slavery was abolished. Their success shows how the Southern elite exploited Black Americans in new ways.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-families/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

THe article contradicts you
QUOTE "Determining how much of a family’s money today came from an ancestral slaveholder is exceedingly difficult."

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Is it ethical to hate the descendants of slave owners?
No

Nope it is not, but who is demonizing them? Is a mere mention and conversation over benefitting from slavery considered verboten?

People can only be held accountable for things which they have control of.

Sins of the father? a few nations, including Israel will punish people, whole families for the acts of others.

The Radical Left's reparations issue is actually about their racial hatred for White folks and their greed for other people's money.
Can Left Wing hate, ignorance and greed be overcome?
We hope so.

Here we go with a loon reverting to script -- radical left, blah, blah, blah...

 

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If your ancestors were Democrats, there is a ~99.99% chance that they owned negro slaves.

If your ancestors are Republicans, there's a ~0.001% chance that they owned slaves.

Capice?

Man oh man, you're demented

 

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Can you fine a person for their grandfather's speeding ticket?

And who is trying to fine people for the actions of grandparents?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

My family has been here much longer than many of yours, and it would have been their custom to own slaves, but not for the tribe as a whole.

According to the National Park Service, the Navajos did not commonly hold slaves, but they often seized Apaches as captives 1.

It is important to note that slavery among Native Americans was not uncommon, and some tribes did own slaves 2. However, the holding of slaves was not common among the Navajos 1.

In some colonies people didn't own slaves, but may have rented them.

 

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THe article contradicts you
QUOTE "Determining how much of a family’s money today came from an ancestral slaveholder is exceedingly difficult."

Your claiming the article contradicts itself?

Reading and comprehension fail.

 

[Muhammed]

Man oh man, you're demented

^

Obvious projection.

Why are you in denial, you stupid Democratic party of slavery supporting scumbag?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

I hope that the Democrats keep pushing their reparations issue.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Every President's family, excepting Trumpkoff's, had slave-owning ancestors.

 

[AMart]

Chattel slavery?

The ideological origins of chattel slavery in the British world

Transcript of the Slavery Remembrance Day memorial lecture 2007: 'The ideological origins of chattel slavery in the British world'. From the International Slavery Museum website, part of the National Museums Liverpool group.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

Slavery before the Trans-Atlantic Trade · African Passages, Lowcountry Adaptations · Lowcountry Digital History Initiative

Chattel slavery is what kept those slaves alive retard. They are more like family on a mom and pop plantation. Corporate sugar cane slaves were worked to death and replaced fast, just like non slave white Irish. Black slaves never died like this in the USA, ever. STFU

Mass grave of Irish diggers stirs quarrel​

NEW ORLEANS -- The mass grave of thousands of Irish ditch diggers killed by disease 150 years ago is at the center of a neighborhood quarrel over a housing project.

As many as 20,000 Irish immigrants perished from cholera and yellow fever during the six-year construction of the New Basin Canal, begun in 1832. The victims were buried wherever they died.



Opponents say a planned subdivison of 94 houses on the canal site amounts to grave desecration. They cite a state law defining desecration as 'damaging in any manner of any grave, tomb or mausoleum for the dead.'

Residents admit their primary concern is not the burial site. They say the strip of green space along the filled-in canal is essential to the tranquility of their neighborhood.

Councilman Bryan Wagner said neighbors brought the desecration statute to his attention this week.

'We certainly intend to look into it to verify if they are correct' in their interpretation of the law, Wagner said.

Despite the opposition of 1,000 residents who signed petitions, city planners gave unenthusiastic approval to the project Wednesday. Planning Commissioner Albert Saputo said he lacked authority to oppose it.



'If I thought we were on good legal ground, I would deny the application,' he said. However, the commission forbade development for 90 days in hopes of reaching a compromise with neighbors.

Developer Phil Nugent, president of New Orleans Canal, Inc., said he would be willing to abandon the site if he can work out a land swap for an adjacent tract owned by the state.

'I think the state is agreeable to a swap,' he said.

The immigrant Irishmen who hacked through swampland with picks and shovels were paid $1 a day for their labor. Wives were paid 50 cents for a half-day's work, considered too dangerous for slaves who sold from $500 to $1,500 each.

The settlers hoped the canal would secure their independence from the Creoles, the descendants of France and Spain who dominated New Orleans' culture and economy for a century. The canal opened shipping access to the American sector on the Uptown side of Canal Street.

Barges laden with melons and other produce traveled the canal for more than a century before it was filled in by the state in 1949.

Mass grave of Irish diggers stirs quarrel - UPI Archives

The mass grave of thousands of Irish ditch diggers killed by disease 150 years ago is at the center of a neighborhood quarrel over a housing project....

www.upi.com

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Chattel slavery is anything but on a 'mom and pop' operation.

It is humanity as property.

It is thousands and thousands of chattel slaves in the sugar islands with a life expectancy that requires the ENTIRE work force to be replaced every eight years.

There is only the slave grave yard with unmarked holes for their retirement.

 

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Chattel slavery is what kept those slaves alive retard. They are more like family on a mom and pop plantation. Corporate sugar cane slaves were worked to death and replaced fast, just like non slave white Irish. Black slaves never died like this in the USA, ever. STFU

Mass grave of Irish diggers stirs quarrel​

NEW ORLEANS -- The mass grave of thousands of Irish ditch diggers killed by disease 150 years ago is at the center of a neighborhood quarrel over a housing project.

As many as 20,000 Irish immigrants perished from cholera and yellow fever during the six-year construction of the New Basin Canal, begun in 1832. The victims were buried wherever they died.



Opponents say a planned subdivison of 94 houses on the canal site amounts to grave desecration. They cite a state law defining desecration as 'damaging in any manner of any grave, tomb or mausoleum for the dead.'

Residents admit their primary concern is not the burial site. They say the strip of green space along the filled-in canal is essential to the tranquility of their neighborhood.

Councilman Bryan Wagner said neighbors brought the desecration statute to his attention this week.

'We certainly intend to look into it to verify if they are correct' in their interpretation of the law, Wagner said.

Despite the opposition of 1,000 residents who signed petitions, city planners gave unenthusiastic approval to the project Wednesday. Planning Commissioner Albert Saputo said he lacked authority to oppose it.



'If I thought we were on good legal ground, I would deny the application,' he said. However, the commission forbade development for 90 days in hopes of reaching a compromise with neighbors.

Developer Phil Nugent, president of New Orleans Canal, Inc., said he would be willing to abandon the site if he can work out a land swap for an adjacent tract owned by the state.

'I think the state is agreeable to a swap,' he said.

The immigrant Irishmen who hacked through swampland with picks and shovels were paid $1 a day for their labor. Wives were paid 50 cents for a half-day's work, considered too dangerous for slaves who sold from $500 to $1,500 each.

The settlers hoped the canal would secure their independence from the Creoles, the descendants of France and Spain who dominated New Orleans' culture and economy for a century. The canal opened shipping access to the American sector on the Uptown side of Canal Street.

Barges laden with melons and other produce traveled the canal for more than a century before it was filled in by the state in 1949.

Mass grave of Irish diggers stirs quarrel - UPI Archives

The mass grave of thousands of Irish ditch diggers killed by disease 150 years ago is at the center of a neighborhood quarrel over a housing project....

www.upi.com

The Petty, Irish Losers. Part of my family always ran away from associating with your kind.

 

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I hope that the Democrats keep pushing their reparations issue.

Your white fears are an embarrassment to normal white people.

 

[AMart]

Chattel slavery is anything but on a 'mom and pop' operation.

It is humanity as property.

It is thousands and thousands of chattel slaves in the sugar islands with a life expectancy that requires the ENTIRE work force to be replaced every eight years.

There is only the slave grave yard with unmarked holes for their retirement.

BS what plantation in the USA had the most slaves? Compare that to corporate ran caribbean stuff. No comparison.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Your white fears are an embarrassment to normal white people.

Great, keep pushing the reparation issue.
Punishing people who are not responsible for something is immoral and unethical.

 

[AMart]

The Petty, Irish Losers. Part of my family always ran away from associating with your kind.

"Dante" lol you have French name you dusty ass slave.

 

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"Dante" lol you have French name you dusty ass slave.

Part of my family was on those ships? Your avatar.

You?

 

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Great, keep pushing the reparation issue.
Punishing people who are not responsible for something is immoral and unethical.

Really? Where do you get that from?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

BS what plantation in the USA had the most slaves? Compare that to corporate ran caribbean stuff. No comparison.

YOU compare mortality rates in LA, MS, AL, and SC on the sugar and rice plantations. What a moron.

 

[whitehall]

Every society was enslaved if you go back far enough. The ignorant anti-America crowd hates the Confederate flag but the Confederacy only lasted for four years and flag that flew from the stern of slave ships for at least 200 years before America became a nation was the Union Jack and nobody hates the British flag.