Actually, for many slaves, the institution of slavery actually saved their lives.
So, you disagree with the legislators and consider slavery had its good points?
First of all the real truth about Slavery is not known by the general public.....the few scholars of history that know it are not going to talk about it because their academic career would be cut short.
We live in a time when truth is being suppressed and the MSM consistently lies.
The period of time we live in is very similar to the time in Russia under Stalin.....when truth was severely repressed and propaganda ruled as it now does here in America for the most part and it is going to get much,much worse....totalatarianism is gaining control of our society.
The Truth of slavery as it existed in America can be researched but few are willing to make the effort.
To understand the reality of slavery as it existed down South first one needs to go back to how Slaves actually became slaves......though the real beginning of it goes back much further to the dawn of human history...and even before that to the ----pre-Adamic civilizations.
I won't go back that far because most are simply not interested.
The slaves that were brought to America by the slave traders were purchased from African Tribal Chiefs who had captured the slaves in a tribal war....at first they just executed them but when it became known to them they could sell them....thus began the Atlantic Slave trade..
The great majority of the slaves wound up in South America where they were truly treated very harshly.
A small minority of them....the lucky ones....were bought by Plantation owners in the Southern U.S. where for the most part they were treated humanely....and quite well in many,many cases.
A few were mis-treated but very few.
Now to whether or not Slavery had its good points....which is a rather nebulous topic.....I will put it this way .....first of all 'slavery' is not a desirable economic situation for anyone.....the slave owners or the slaves themselves. Yet to get real....The American Slaves were much better off than their cousins they left behind in Africa who lived very short lives....plagued with disease, predaators and constant tribal warfare
The American slaves when they arrived on these shores were not civilized to any great extent.....they were basically Savages from the jungles of Africa....had to be taught to wear clothes and gradually they became civilized to a great extent..they eventually learned the English Language and many became Christians.......though they were very difficult to understand even when they learned rudimentary english.
Most of them lived to ripe old ages and had many Children......they were well fed, had good clothing and adequate shelter. Actually their living conditions were superior to those of poor wage laborers up north and also better than many poor dirt farmers down south.
In a nutshell they were much better off than the popular conception of today which is fueled by hollywood nonsense.
Anyone interested in the subject should read the slave narratives though they have been purged to a great extent and lean towards the p.c. view of slavery so popular today. One still gets a pretty good understanding of the reality of it as it existed down South on the Plantations.
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