I don't know.
How many people benefited from slavery?
Hint: You're one of them.
Prove it? Provide a link that says slavery was good for blacks and then take that evidence to the nearest black household and convince them.
I didn't say it was good for blacks. Stop lying, you racist asshole. I said people have benefited from slavery.
YOU benefit from slavery. This is undeniable.
Do you want to know how?
African-American Inventors
Africans introduced the practice of inoculation in America as a cure for smallpox. They had practiced inoculation prior to the slave trade. In 1721, a Boston slave named Onesimus instructed Cotton Mather, the Puritan cleric, about the technique. Mather injected infected fluid into another person and found the second person became immune from catching the disease. Cotton Mather wrote a pamphlet about Onesimus and innoculation became a standard medical practice.
Garrett Morgan, inventor of one of the first traffic lights | African American Registry
*On this date, in 1877, we mark the birth of Garrett Augustus Morgan. He was an African-American businessman and inventor.
The son of former slaves, Garrett Morgan was born in Paris, Kentucky, his early childhood was spent attending school and working on the family farm. In 1895, Morgan moved to Cleveland, where he went to work as a sewing machine repair man for a clothing manufacturer; he opened his own shop in 1907. The company turned out coats, suits, and dresses, all sewn with equipment that Morgan himself had made. In 1920, Morgan moved into the newspaper business establishing the Cleveland Call.
His curiosity and innovation led to the development of many useful and helpful products. Among his inventions was an early traffic signal. After witnessing a collision between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage, Morgan was convinced that something should be done to improve traffic safety. Morgan was one of the first to apply for and acquire a U.S. patent for a traffic signal. The patent was granted on November 20, 1923. Morgan later had the technology patented in Great Britain and Canada. He also invented a zigzag stitching attachment for manually operated sewing machine. In 1916, Morgan made national news for using a gas mask he had invented to rescue several men trapped during an explosion in an underground tunnel beneath Lake Erie. After the rescue, Morgan’s company received requests from fire departments around the country that wished to purchase the new masks.
The Morgan gas mask was later refined for use by U.S. Army during World War I in 1921. As word of Morgan’s life-saving inventions spread across North America and England, demand for these products grew.
Famous Black Inventors | Made Manual
Benjamin Banneker If the name Benjamin Banneker doesn't ring a bell to you, you're missing out on one of the most important inventors. Just take a look at the clock within your house or office and you're looking at one of his inventions. The son of former slaves, Banneker was a self-taught inventor, interested in many different subjects. He was a farmer, mathematician, astronomer, author and land surveyor. In the 1750s, Banneker borrowed a pocket watch from a friend and took it apart. Afterwards, he made his first clock, gaining popularity with his invention. Not only did this lead to a successful watch repair shop, his interest in astronomy lead to his predicting a solar eclipse in 1789 and to having Thomas Jefferson ask him to lead a surveyor team within Washington, D.C.
George Washington Carver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Washington Carver reputedly discovered three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds more for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. Among the listed items that he suggested to southern farmers to help them economically were adhesives, axle grease, bleach, buttermilk, chili sauce, fuel briquettes (a biofuel), ink, instant coffee, linoleum, mayonnaise, meat tenderizer, metal polish, paper, plastic, pavement, shaving cream, shoe polish, synthetic rubber, talcum powder and wood stain. Three patents (one for cosmetics; patent number 1,522,176, and two for paints and stains; patent numbers 1,541,478 and 1,632,365) were issued to George Washington Carver in the years 1925 to 1927...
Ink Slinger's Whimsey: Discover Inventor Joseph Lee and the Automatic Bread Machine
Most of us, however, will never have heard of Joseph Lee, the inventor of the automatic bread making machine that revolutionized the bread industry. This former slave over came incredible hardship to rise (pardon the pun,) above adversity to have a significant impact on modern day America. The impact of his inventions, the first bread machine, then the bread crumber, changed the slice of bread on America’s table by allowing bakeries and restaurants to produce bread loves more efficiently and in greater numbers than ever before. Why without Joseph Lee there wouldn’t be a bread industry as we know it.
Now tell me you have never been vaccinated, driven under a traffic light, used any of the products invented by GW Carver, or eaten bread from a bakery.
But you'd be lying.
You have benefited from slavery. We all have. Unless you'd like to make the ludicrous claim that these slaves and sons of slaves would have made the same discoveries and inventions in their native lands.
Would you like to try that? No? Didn't think so.
Now you will mindlessly screech that I'm a racist, as if that alters reality one whit.
