Posted by JerryS on January 24, 2015 at 23:12:13 from (98.80.103.253):
In Reply to: 12 days a slave posted by rkh on January 24, 2015 at 19:04:54:
Of course slavery in America was wrong, and we are still paying the price for that error. But it was just as it was wrong for the thousands of years that it existed in the world prior to the first African being brought to this hemisphere, and as it exists in the world today in its various manifestations. It should be noted and remembered, however, that throughout human history slavery, in one form or another, was the natural state of existence for most people. Virtually everyone except the ruling classes owed their fealty to some despot, tyrant or liege lord. The notion of individual liberty was a concept unthinkable until it blossomed here in the 1700s. Blacks do not have ownership of the legacy of slavery, though some might have us believe it was a historical anomaly applicable only to them. >In recent years there has been considerable agitation in favor of the notion of “reparations”---monetary awards to the descendants of America’s slaves as compensation for the injustices inflicted upon their ancestors. I consider those claims to be absurd (even though many of the claimants are now in fact receiving reparations, in one form or another.) In reality, these modern-day descendants should be rejoicing in the knowledge that because of the hardships borne by their forefathers, they now live where a majority of the world’s population would like to be---America.
P.S. –A previous post referred to slaves being “sold down the river” , specifically citing north Louisiana. There were many cotton plantations in north Louisiana (still are), but the dreaded destination for slaves was south Louisiana, where the work in the sugar cane fields was especially grueling.
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