Despite having previously been forced to admit that, strictly speaking, her work isnt ”history”, Nikole Hannah-Jones is doubling down on her idée fixe that The USA was created solely for the purpose of perpetuating African slavery. That’s it. Everything else is just a cover up.
To start the New Year off right, lemme tell you again that our country is not the most culpable, but the least culpable, among the nations in connection with African slavery, in terms of duration, intensity, and sheer numbers.
Duration: we become a nation in 1776. 32 years after that we abolished the slave trade, 1808. About 50 years after that, we fought a bloody civil war to get rid of the institution. We had to, cuz the colonial powers: France, Spain, England, Holland, who had been trading in Africans for 200 years already, pulled out and left their slaves here. so our nation’s total involvement is what, 85 years? Less than one century.
Intensity: No, no, this is in no way an excuse for the institution which our country didnt invent, as I said, and which we as a colony got stuck with. But it is a simple fact that Africans in North America did breed, which people dont do in conditions of extreme misery and hopelessness. okay it was probably because ofntheir economic value, but they were comparatively well-treated; see below.
Numbers: France brought four times as many Africans to their sugar plantations . They had to, because they just unloaded them and worked them to death. Oh and the US is NOT the biggest slave destination ever. That would be Brazil.
Ms Jones now says England wanted to abolish slavery, and we declared independence from them just so we could keep it.
B U L L S H I T. if thats true why did England want to side with the south in the civil war? Lincoln convinced them that officially it wouldnt be a good look, but English financiers floated a huge bond issue to support the south. France, too, was all in for ”the brave planters”.
Ms Jones, your perfidy sets a new standard.
Please everyone: learn the facts.
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Loved this post for its historical accuracy. I would add one more ‘fun’ fact to the story of slavery:
American slave traders sailed to West Africa to do “business” but knew even then that getting off the ships and roaming through the jungles would invariably expose them to malaria, so they hired African chieftains to capture the biggest and strongest of their tribes who made a tidy profit selling them to the colonists. Not to mention that the African coastline has no natural inlets or ports so ships had to dock ten yards away from land and Africans had to transport their “cargo” to their customers.
Slavery has been practiced by centuries by all cultures and anybody who gleefully identifies as an African-American does so out of complete ignorance.
And historical ignorance is our biggest enemy.
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Yes true: humans everywhere and always have practiced slavery. But this termagant only cares about African slavery, and even within that, only about the Atlantic slave trade. So that’s what I was talking about. How could you be so wrong about such a circumscribed little subject area? Well of course she’s not “wrong” : she
is
a
LIAR.
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“But this termagant only cares about African slavery, and even within that, only about the Atlantic slave trade.”
Exactly my point. She won’t acknowledge that African leaders were complicit! Plantation owners could not have practiced their trade without help from Native-African leaders.
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Hyp, I don’t want to keep up with her, I want to be so far ahead of her, she can inhale my dust. Let’s get proactive and leave reaction behind.
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Great post, Hypatia, Thank you! It is difficult to fathom the level of hatred some have for America, that they would outright lie to slander her.
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Oh dear you are dealing in facts again. Last year should have taught you to ignore your lying eyes and only believe the facts you are told to believe. 🙂
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Thank you, Hypatia, for spreading some truth with this OP.
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