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

[Dante]

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 Duke]

The 1870s were a long time ago.

 

[Lastamender]

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

Who the **** cares about your family? You probably don't either.

 

[BackAgain]

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[Dante]

The 1870s were a long time ago.

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Neither Hill nor Kennedy commented specifically for this story. In June, Hill issued a statement for a previous Reuters story, calling slavery “a scourge” and saying “we as a nation must recognize our past, learn from it, and look to the future.” In 2019, Kennedy called slavery “reprehensible,” but noted: “I believe in personal responsibility, and I just don’t think someone today is responsible for what someone else did 150 years ago.”


For this article, Titus provided a statement: “Slavery is a deplorable part of our history, and I have no bonds with any long-dead relatives connected to it. We must not forget the cruelty visited upon Black Americans over generations as we commit to systemic reform that ensures equal rights for all. That principle has guided my personal life, professional career, and political record.”

 

[The Duke]

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Neither Hill nor Kennedy commented specifically for this story. In June, Hill issued a statement for a previous Reuters story, calling slavery “a scourge” and saying “we as a nation must recognize our past, learn from it, and look to the future.” In 2019, Kennedy called slavery “reprehensible,” but noted: “I believe in personal responsibility, and I just don’t think someone today is responsible for what someone else did 150 years ago.”


For this article, Titus provided a statement: “Slavery is a deplorable part of our history, and I have no bonds with any long-dead relatives connected to it. We must not forget the cruelty visited upon Black Americans over generations as we commit to systemic reform that ensures equal rights for all. That principle has guided my personal life, professional career, and political record.”

At least those 3 peoples' families have been Americans for a long time. Good on 'em!

 

[Dante]

The 1870s were a long time ago.

Yet you and people like BackAgain argue over shit from the 1700s.

 

[Woodznutz]

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

All this because they chose to remain in America.

It is noteworthy that millions of economic refugees from all over the world have no problem abandoning their native lands for greener pastures. Africa would have been much friendlier to returning blacks than post-slavery America.

 

[The Duke]

Yet you and people like BackAgain argue over shit from the 1700s.

We do? Oh! You mean over that Constitution that you hate so bad?

Well **** You, Commie Shitbird!

You're dumb as a stump and we're not doing it your way and ******* deal with it, *****!

 

[BackAgain]

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Neither Hill nor Kennedy commented specifically for this story. In June, Hill issued a statement for a previous Reuters story, calling slavery “a scourge” and saying “we as a nation must recognize our past, learn from it, and look to the future.” In 2019, Kennedy called slavery “reprehensible,” but noted: “I believe in personal responsibility, and I just don’t think someone today is responsible for what someone else did 150 years ago.”


For this article, Titus provided a statement: “Slavery is a deplorable part of our history, and I have no bonds with any long-dead relatives connected to it. We must not forget the cruelty visited upon Black Americans over generations as we commit to systemic reform that ensures equal rights for all. That principle has guided my personal life, professional career, and political record.”

A very non informative pointless.

 

[BackAgain]

Yet you and people like BackAgain argue over shit from the 1700s.

Another classic example ^ of the shallow-minded “thinking” [sic] of The Dainty.

Not a surprise.

 

[Flash]

Slavery is a part of Human history just like wars, political oppression, sexual assault, thievery, genocide and conquest.

Get over it. Life is a ***** and then you die.

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

Is it ethical to hate the descendants of slave owners?
No
People can only be held accountable for things which they have control of.
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.

 

[Muhammed]

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

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?

 

[TroglocratsRdumb]

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

 

[Anomalism]

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.

If your ancestors had money they probably owned slaves. If they didn't have money they were probably the slaves. Lol

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

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.

 

[Muhammed]

My family has been here much longer than many of yours, and it would have been custom to own slaves.

Kinda like the Biden family?

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The Turks owned slaves until the 1800s.

According to a report by Reuters, every living US president is a descendant of slave owners except for Donald Trump, whose ancestors arrived in the United States after slavery was abolished 123

The Trump were run out of Europe after 1865, so they have no history of American enslavement

 

[Dante]

Slavery is a part of Human history just like wars, political oppression, sexual assault, thievery, genocide and conquest.

Get over it. Life is a ***** and then you die.

Chattel slavery?

A better understanding of chattel slavery​

Various forms of human bondage still exist in our world today. As horrendous as they seem to us in our modern sensibilities they are nothing compared to the massive holocaust that struck the African continent during the great disaster called the European slave trade. This search for wealth was equivalent to the madness of a gold rush; it was the iconic capitalist venture of its era, just as information technology might be today. If a European person was not in the game, he or she felt that they were missing out on an opportunity for great wealth. Given the strength of the idea that Africans were property, chattel, that could bring great wealth some Europeans dubbed Africans, 'Black Gold'.


Let us see now if we can shed more light on the meaning and processing of the term chattel slavery. This term is at the very core of the debasement of Africans that accompanied this massive transfer of people against their wills from one continent to another. Chattel slavery has been rudely misunderstood, treated almost gingerly like it was some decent term to describe a quaint practice that was acceptable to high society.

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

As described in the following sections, this decline occurred due to unique religious, geographic, and political circumstances in Western Europe. By 1200, chattel slavery had all but disappeared from northwestern Europe. Southern Europeans along the Mediterranean coast continued to purchase slaves from various parts of Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. In Lisbon, for example, African slaves comprised one tenth of the population in the 1460s. Overall, however, the slave trade into southern Europe was relatively small compared to what later developed in the New World.

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