It is incredible that over 150 years after its final abolition, slavery continues to impact race relations in America. No one currently alive in America was ever a slave in the United States. The closest connection that can be made is that there are probably some very elderly persons who, as young children, might have a met a former slave who had lived a very long life.
The point isn’t to speculate on such matters, but to emphasize that no one alive today was directly impacted by the practice of slavery in America. Racially discriminatory practices, yes. Slavery, no.
We cannot change the past. But, we can look at history, try to learn something, and resolve to do much better. Part of that involves challenging prevailing ideas that might not be accurate.
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WHAAAAT ?
Blacks enslaved blacks 1654. It’s in the history book. Oh I forgot. They don’t teach history anymore
It don’t have$#%&!@*to do about slavery!!!!!
much of slave trade was operated by blacks. All slaves purchased that arrived in US (about 6% of total trade) were sold to whites by African blacks. The majority of that trade went into Middle-East countries, where about 50% died in transit. The only slave ships were of New England states. Those states did not want those blacks to reside in their states, so they made laws prohibiting such, required all black slaves to be sold into southern states.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2015/09/slavery_myths_seven_lies_half_truths_and_irrelevancies_people_trot_out_about.html
Absolutely he was
The Confederate Constitution forbade slavery and was under ratification by each state, in process through ratification to time, approved, war broke out. It may well have been that war broke out on purpose, before the Confederacy could declare its anti-slavery stance. The war was more about economics, the industrial north (financed by profitable slave trade) wanted controlled cotton prices for their mills. The southern states, cotton growers, were finding new markets (Britain and Spain), thus the blockade of southern ports.
Slavery continued in northern states after the war….ended in 1887.
The steel and textile industries of the north, were financed by northern states slave trade.
Get educated. Read Black Yellowdogs by Ben Kinchlow. Might learn something.