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The truth about slavery
There has been talk in some liberal circles of making the
white man make reparations to the black man for injustices
done in the past in regard to slavery. What? I couldn't
believe my ears the first time I heard this. The liberal
thought coming out of our universities has become so degenerate
as to be hard to believe. There has been a lot of anti-white
bias and hate in it for a number of years now. Whites have
been represented as bad guys, responsible for great wrongs.
What are the facts concerning slavery?
If you read the second book of Chronicles in the Old Testament
you learn that the peoples back in those days were often at
war. There was war after war after war. Often several kings
would get together and go to war against a particular nation.
Armies of many hundreds of thousands would come against each
other. And how would a war end? Sometimes the conqueror
simply slaughtered all of the enemy. At other times he would
be merciful and simply enslave them. He might take the better
looking women for wives or concubines, enslave the rest of the
population --- and then haul off huge amounts of plunder. To
the victor went the spoils. They weren't regulated by any
rules of war like our rules of the Geneva Convention. A
soldier back then could fight encouraged by visions of payment
in plunder and slaves if his side won. Men would die in the
tens of thousands. I would guess that the real reason for most
of the wars was simple greed. A powerful king would demand
payments from his weaker neighbors just as modern gangsters
demand protection money from businessmen. If they didn't
comply he went to war against them, took them hostage, enslaved
them, and took their wealth for himself. It is a story of the
strong using their strength to plunder the weak and is a story
that is probably as old as man himself. In later centuries the
story is repeated in the Vikings and their raids on the coasts
of Europe. As a consequence of all this, slavery was a way of
life, a fact of life, in the ancient world. It was a fact of
life in Greek and Roman times. Large portions of the
populations were slaves and no one gave a lot of thought to the
fact. In the days of Rome it is quite possible that three
quarters of the population may have been slaves. The origin of
slavery probably goes back about as far as man himself. And
slavery still exists today in some Islamic countries. It is
not completely extinguished yet. And there is some logic in
support of slavery. If you enslave an enemy he can't later
rise up against you. So what caused the demise of slavery? I
would suggest the answer is the Christian religion --- that it
was the Christian outlook, mentality and conscience that ended
it. It was the white Anglo-Saxon Christian who started
questioning the morality of it, the rightness of it. And that
happened only a couple hundred years ago. A very recent event
in the ages-long history of slavery. I would think that the
black man would be thanking the white Anglo-Saxon Christian for
ending the practice, that he would be building monuments to him
for this deed. But what has happened? Modern liberal hate-
mongers have railed against the white man, accusing him of all
kinds of social crime. They have tried to make him out a
criminal, tried to put him on a guilt-trip. And now all the
rhetoric has reached the point of demanding reparations from
whites for the actions of some of their distant ancestors.
That is the kind of gratitude the white man has received for
his action in stopping slavery. And here we have an example of
the kind of twisted, contorted, dishonest, emotion-laden
illogic of modern intellectualism.
See
Wikipedia History of Slavery
Wikipedia Slavery
Wikipedia Slavery in Africa
YouTube The Biggest Lie About Slavery | Thomas Sowell
YouTube Facts about slavery never mentioned in school | Thomas Sowell
Unknown Facts about the Islamic Slave Trade | Thomas Sowell
Differences Between the Islamic and Western Slave Trade | Thomas Sowell
YouTube Thomas Sowell The Real History of Slavery
July 2010