EXACTLY!
"1619" reflects the historical ignorance of it's authors and supporters.
Slavery has been part of the human condition since the founding of first civilizations @6,000 years ago and remains in many other parts of the world to this day.
Slavery in what would become the future USA was established by the assorted European nations that set up their colonies here, especially Portugal and Spain, and was a legacy dumped upon the 13 colonies of the future USA. The fact that Article I. Section 9. of the USA Constitution outlawed importation of persons/slaves after 1808 is a case in point that our nation wasn't founded upon slavery and was working, with compromises of the times, to eventually abolish such.
LOL!
ALL RISE!
This Mornings Lesson is titled:
The 1808 Lie.
America had every chance not to implement slavery. We are told how the so-called founders of this country created the way to end slavery when they wrote the constitution. Many will cite the fact they made the importation of slaves illegal by 1808 as evidence. But refusing to stop importing slaves did not end the slaving business in the United States. What it produced was an original American industry-slave breeding.
"During the fifty-three years from the prohibition of the African slave trade by federal law in 1808 to the debacle of the Confederate States of America in 1861, the Southern economy depended on the functioning of a slave-breeding industry, of which Virginia was the number-one supplier."
Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
You see, if America had continued to import slaves, it would have diluted the market thereby driving down the costs of slaves. Slave sellers could not have this. So instead of the truth, we are told that “our nearer to God than thee” founders in all their benevolent glory, looked towards a future whereby slavery would be no more. According to some, the so-called founders had a dream whereby little black boys and little black girls would no longer be enslaved because of the color of their skin. This is the story we are supposed to believe. However, reality does not show that.
“In fact, most American slaves were not kidnapped on another continent. Though over 12.7 million Africans were forced onto ships to the Western hemisphere, estimates only have 400,000-500,000 landing in present-day America. How then to account for the four million black slaves who were tilling fields in 1860? “The South,” the Sublettes write, “did not only produce tobacco, rice, sugar, and cotton as commodities for sale; it produced people.” Slavers called slave-breeding “natural increase,” but there was nothing natural about producing slaves; it took scientific management. Thomas Jefferson bragged to George Washington that the birth of black children was increasing Virginia’s capital stock by four percent annually.”
Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
To be blunt, America had slave breeding “factories” where slaves were forced to breed. I call them factories but in most cases, they are described as farms. These “farms” generally had at least a 2:1 female to male ratio. In some states, slave production was the number 1 industry. Virginia led the nation in slave production and PRESIDENT Thomas Jefferson was one of the main producers. The slave breeding industry has been hidden and left out of the annals of American history. This was done on purpose.
After reading how this was done it becomes very easy to see why. There are just some wrongs that cannot be excused. The bottom line here is that the slave breeding industry manufactured human beings to be sold into labor.
“According to database-backed estimates by David Eltis and David Richardson, only about 389,000 kidnapped Africans were disembarked in the ports of the present-day United States, the majority of them before independence.”
“By 1860, those few hundred thousand Africans had given way to four million African Americans.”29
Ned & Constance Sublette, The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry
According to the Sublettes, 389,000 slaves landed on the shores of what is now America. By 1860 there were 4 million slaves living here. The importation of slaves was made illegal in 1808. So from 1808 until 1860 the number of slaves increased by at least 1,000 percent. If we allow for the Africans selling each other, Africans would be responsible for between 389 thousand slaves. What about the 3.1-4 million additional slaves? Africans did not create them. This was done by forced slave breeding for business, pleasure and entertainment. The depth of this atrocity matches anything spoken about Hitler. We are talking about babies taken from their mom and sold, mulatto children murdered by jealous wives or sold away from their mothers by a husband who wanted to keep his cheating or raping a female slave a secret. If you saw the movie Mandingo, understand that such things really happened.
The ignorance of the poster is apparent. Stop lying to yourself. American economics was based in slavery. It was indeed a important issue in the founding of this country.
