The truths about slavery in America the democrats and the left won’t like

[PredFan]

Great article on slavery in the United States that dismantles the talking points of America hating democrats…….

One of many points….

BLACK SLAVES BULT 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.

https://hotair.com/dennis-prager/2023/04/18/slavery-the-left-and-truth-n544580

People who are ignorant of history (democrats) don't know that a very large portion of slaves in the south worked on sugar plantations. I don't know the exact numbers but it was a significant amount.

 

[2aguy]

People who are ignorant of history (democrats) don't know that a very large portion of slaves in the south worked on sugar plantations. I don't know the exact numbers but it was a significant amount.

Yep.........the majority of blacks sold to the Europeans by their African enemies were sent to the Spanish colonies, not the English colonies.......

 

[PredFan]

Wow, here's the funny thing, 2TinyGuy

Slavery really didn't end in 1865. It was simply replaced by a new form called "Debt Peonage", where black people were arrested for minor crimes, forced to work in those industries to pay off their debts, and the debt kept accumulating because they were charged for food and board in excess of what they earned.

Debt Peonage didn't end in this country until 1942, when it was outlawed by Congress because it was a bad look going into World War II.



Here's a better question. Why does anyone take Dennis Prager seriously?

Brazil did advance for a time, but the corruption in their system was a large part of the problem. They abolished slavery, and then overthrew the Emperor who abolished it.

As for "England" (Actually, the United Kingdom, but never mind, Prager, we know you're a moron) England advanced because it conquered a bunch of countries and looted them for their resources, particularly India. When the US Civil War crippled American cotton production, the British set up Cotton production in their colonies India and Egypt. in fact, the reason why the spinning wheel is part of India's flag is it because an anti-British symbol.

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Churchill hated Gandhi more than he hated Hitler.

There are a dozen things wrong with your rant but here's the one that rips up your ignorant rant the most:

Debt Peonage, also called Debt Servitude, Debt Slavery, and Debt Bondage, have existed throughout history, even long before the US existed. Before it was banned in the US, it also existed in the north and involved anyone, regardless of skin color. You're cherry picking the facts to fit your narrative, typical.

 

[2aguy]

There are a dozen things wrong with your rant but here's the one that rips up your ignorant rant the most:

Debt Peonage, also called Debt Servitude, Debt Slavery, and Debt Bondage, have existed throughout history, even long before the US existed. Before it was banned in the US, it also existed in the north and involved anyone, regardless of skin color. You're cherry picking the facts to fit your narrative, typical.

He hates this country....and embraces the worst countries in the world, where a doofus like him would find himself in a gulag or mass grave so fast it would make his head spin.....

 

[ChemEngineer]

"There are more slaves today in the world than ever before in human history." - National Geographic Magazine

India has the largest number by far

 

[jbrownson0831]

White-washing slavery…rightists have gone from “slavery wasn’t that bad” to “slavery didn’t contribute much” to our country.





She leaves out something. “Freedmen” were former slaves now sharecroppers. Approximately 1/3 of share croppers where black. Sharecropping kept people poor through a system of debt and bondage not unlike serfs. Cotton, like tobacco, was labor intensive and what is cheap than slave labor? If they weren’t essential, why have them?





“Common sense” fallacy. Slavery opened the door to developing the south. Prior to large scale slavery much of the Deep South was undeveloped and endemic diseases killed such as malria, yellow fever etc. killed off colonists at a high rate. Black slaves withstood the heat better, were more resistant to some tropical diseases, couldn’t run away as easily as Indians, and were expendable.







What is the point here?


Brazil is a completely different country with different problems, climate,etc.





Again, comparing apples and oranges. The south was primarily agricultural and the north industrial. The profit comes with value added products, not the raw material.

And you went from starting slavery and owning slaves, to formation of the KKK and murdering them, to now murdering babies.

 

[surada]

Great article on slavery in the United States that dismantles the talking points of America hating democrats…….

One of many points….

BLACK SLAVES BULT 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.

https://hotair.com/dennis-prager/2023/04/18/slavery-the-left-and-truth-n544580

Dennis Prager? You're kidding?

 

[AZrailwhale]

Dennis Prager? You're kidding?

Complaining about the source doesn't alter the content. YOU answer the three questions if you don't like his answers.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The trash put out by the 2aguy slimes is accepted only by his kind, maybe 5% of the American citizenry.

It stigmatizes that breed as terrible human beings.