American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 - Edward J. Larson Audiobook

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  Hogweed
  April 27th, 2023
  

  

  Why dont you ask Africa? They are the ones who enslaved all the black people and sold them all over the world. Did you know that millions of blacks were sold by black slavers to Turkey and the Middle East for 700 years before any European purchased a black slave?
  So if America was founded on slavery, then Africa was not only founded on slavery, but promoted slavery for thousands of years. And the entire Mid East, Turkey, and other places that bought slaves were also founded on slavery.
  I say you can take your finger pointing and stick it where the sun don’t shine.

  American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 - Edward J. Larson
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  Malachie520
  April 27th, 2023
  

  The Jewish people have been persecuted ever since Christians forgot that Jesus was a Jew and only cared that he was killed by Jews. Two thousand years of persecution and massacre. As unoriginal a thinker he was, Hitler didn’t create Jewish persecution. But he did take it up a notch with his Final Solution. Dumbsh*ts like to point out how “Africans sold Africans so slavery can’t be our fault” but no one raised slavery to the institution it became like the good ol’ U.S. of A. Much like Hitler industrialized genocide, the US industrialized the enslavement of people. And Africans weren’t above profiting off of those they didn’t consider the same. White people discriminated against the Irish, for instance, with the same fervor they did later with Black people. Black people, in the same way, see other Black people not just as Blacks but being from this tribe or this place or this belief or this gang. There are no Chinese or Japanese or Korean or Vietnamese people to Americans: they are all Asians. All people living along the equator aren’t from this country or that, they are Black. All people living in the upper latitudes are White and not until they speak do they differentiate themselves as being “other”…and then they are.

  @Hogweed Quit falling for your cherry-picked history to justify abomination. Slavery existed since time immemorial and you’d be hard-pressed to (ridiculously) argue that Black slaves picking cotton had it better or worse than, say, Chinese slaves building the Great Wall. All those affected would tell you slavery was horrible. All those benefiting would tell you that it was necessary. Don’t be the guy arguing for oppression.

  American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 - Edward J. Larson
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  hbf1184
  April 28th, 2023
  

  @Hogweed Why do you even click on every upload that you think is ‘Black’ to spew your racist b.s.? You may be part of those members who do the same but, it only illustrate your severe lack of knowledge and/or education, confusing the diverse systems of historical ’slavery’ throughout world history is stupid. The Atlantic Slave Trade is not comparable to the Arab Slave, the European Slave Trade (Eastern/Eurasians slavers selling other Europeans & Eurasians of the Russian Steppes to Ottoman Turkish & Arab Dynastic rulers), Greeks enslaving & selling other Greeks into slavery (including Spartans) or Native American tribes enslaving their Native American enemies as the African tribes who did the same with their African tribal enemies. Forgot the Vikings kidnaping & enslaved other Europeans (from the Netherlands/Germany/Bohemia/Northern France) on their ‘raping & pillaging’ raids for hundreds of years, hmm? How about the Romans who enslaved other ‘non-Roman citizens’ (i.e. other Italians)? The Meso-Americans who enslaved other indigenous peoples of Central & South America (i.E. Olmecs, Incas) Did all of their slave systems work the same? *Note: No, they didn’t! What was different, what was similar?

  American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 - Edward J. Larson
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  ladidadi
  April 28th, 2023
  

  @Hogweed: Are you, good sir, aware that Africa, is not, in fact a country?

  American Inheritance: Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795 - Edward J. Larson

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