By Nicholas Stix
In a previous item, I mentioned two black racists who had attacked white novelist James Howard Kunstler, condemning him for supposed racism.
In lieu of any argument, the racist black “Renaissance man” (so-named by the liberal host, “KMO”) attacking Kunstler had pointed and spluttered about “300 years of slavery.”
I suppose it could have been worse. Usually, they point and splutter about “400” or even “500 years of slavery”!
Yes, “they.”
Rather than blacks being enslaved by whites for 400 or 500 years, blacks were not enslaved by whites, but whites emancipated the slaves.
Let me pick that topic up where I left off.
The first slaves in the colonies were whites, who were officially “indentured servants.” Most were worked to death by their white masters, before they could earn their freedom. (See also here.)
The blacks who were later bought by white slave traders to be resold in the colonies, America, after it gained independence, and the Spanish, British, Portuguese and French holdings in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America, had been enslaved by black Africans and Arab Moslems. Arab Moslems also kidnapped over one million white Europeans into slavery.
The institution of chattel slavery in the colonies was founded in the colonies by a black man, Anthony Johnson. Johnson had come over to Jamestown as an indentured servant in 1619, and when he fulfilled his contract, became a farmer and contracted with Africans who initially worked for him as indentured servants. However, that wasn’t enough for Johnson, and so he decided he wanted to own his black workers for life as slaves.
Johnson had brought over another black man, John Casor, as a slave, in 1651. However, Casor did not wish to be slave, and escaped. A white neighbor, Robert Parker, offered Casor sanctuary, and Johnson took the matter to a British colonial court, which ruled in his favor in 1654.
Thus, chattel slavery was founded both in Africa and the American colonies by black men. It was ended in America in 1862 by a white man named Abraham Lincoln. Thus, slavery lasted officially not for 400 or 500 years here, but for only 208—as opposed to probably hundreds of thousands of years in the motherland, where it still exists—and for only the first 86 years of the United States of America.
Only a tiny percentage of free southern whites owned slaves (perhaps five percent), and a much lower percentage of free whites in the North did, while probably the majority—thousands—of free Southern blacks owned black slaves in the run-up to the Civil War. And most of those black slaveowners owned them for the same reason that whites did, but treated their slaves worse than white slavers did.
Note too that far from viciously breaking up slave families, white slaveowners did everything possible to keep those families together. Racist blacks who repeat this myth often idealize the Moslem world, an idealization which is diametrically opposed to the truth. Unlike paternalistic white planters in the colonies and the early Republic, Mohammedan slave owners did not permit black male slaves to have any families, and mercilessly worked them to death.
The notion that blacks only bought slaves in order to free them was a bald-faced lie invented by “scholar” Carter G. Woodson, a black nationalist propagandist who variously ascribed all black failings to white influences (all of which he depicted as evil), or made up racial fairy tales, to turn black perfidy (e.g., owning slaves) into a virtue. This hoax has been repeatedly debunked, most powerfully by Larry Koger in Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860.
Woodson, by the way, was the founder of The Journal of Negro History, since renamed The Journal of African American History, and Negro History Week, which eventually became Black History Month. His spirit of chicanery and fraud still hovers over Black History Month and black studies.
Whether the journal Woodson founded has transcended its mean beginnings, I cannot say.
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ReplyDeleteI've got a bunch of good videos here.
African slavers raided as far north as the coast of England for centuries taking white slaves back to Africa. The book White Gold by Giles Milton is a good start for the history of African slave culture.
ReplyDeleteAfter being challenged about black people practicing slavery I heard Al Sharpton say that american slavery of blacks was the worst form of slavery ever in the history of man. Of course he has a vested interest in believing that though anyone who understand true history know that's not true.
Another tactic of naysayers I've heard is to say that the African raiders weren't black people but Arabs doing the raiding. That's an interesting position because yes, many of the raiders were from North Africa and would be defined as "Arab". Of course then you get into what exactly constitutes a "true" black or "true" arab.
Most inhabitants of North Africa have been intermingling their bloodlines with Europeans, Arabs and central Africans for millennia. They're typically darker than southern europeans and middle easterners but lighter than central africans. Does that make them unqualified to be truly black? For years black (and white for that matter) historians claim anyone that makes positive contributions and has even the faintest trace of black blood, the contribution is due to their black ancestry and that they should be considered black. If they have done something negative then the one drop rule doesn't apply, they're not truly black. For instance the achievement of ancient Egypt were by BLACK africans. Ignoring the fact that most ancient Egyptians were more genetically related to Arabic people who actually fall under the caucasian classification. Bring up the Barbary Corsairs and watch the historians claim it was just Arabs but not true black africans. You really aren't supposed to have it both ways but in this country they get away with it.
They will also say the African on European slave trade was not on the same scale as American slavery. That is true, not as many white europeans were enslaved as black africans. However that is only due to the fact they didn't have the economic or military base in which to expand the scope of their slavery and support the system on the same scale. Truth is, though blacks and liberal whites are loathe to admit, blacks are every bit as innately capable of practicing slavery as any other race of people. There's no historical precedents contradicting that, in fact there's plenty proving it.
You'll never hear this in any history classes in this country. Jerry