Blacks owned black slaves in America.
The truth about slavery in America has been so twisted around by bleeding hearts and others, that it's hard to find the real history.
"Roots", the fictional TV mini-series produced by Alex Haley helped to invent a lot of what people imagine about slavery in America.
He portrayed the enterprise as something akin to evil white people landing on the shores of Africa and chasing down black natives so as to knock them about and bring them into the holds of waiting ships.
Lies of course. The African slaves that were brought to America lived longer as slaves, as horrific as the practice of slavery was and remains to this day, in that virtually every race on earth has been or is currently suffering slavery, than they would have having been left in Africa.
Dutch traders found a market when venturing to the dark continent and buying those that were held captive there as POW's, after tribal wars.
Had those tribes people and the families of the captured warriors engaged in the warfare with the tribal victors, not been sold to those traders they would have been executed.
African tribes employed vanquished enemies as slaves as well.
No one in America today is responsible for the slavery that marred American history. Nor is the southern flag still a banner that heralds the practice.
What is racism, is to think it does. As if whites should be ashamed and apologize for being white. Or that the southern flag should be put in a drawer so as not to offend those who look to it and take offense over something they know nothing about when it comes to the truth of the matter.
What should be shoved in a drawer is the groveling that's expected as people think America should be ashamed of itself for what is not the truth of our history in large part. But rather is the racist fiction manufactured and that then insists upon it.
Much like what is imagined about the Generals Grant and Lee, after the Civil War.
The north's U.S. General Grant didn't free his own slaves until after the Civil war was over! His wife in fact had a great fondness for slave labor and would not let him do so right away.
While the south's General Lee did not believe in slavery and had freed his slaves well prior to Grant, even though Lee's armies had been defeated.
What isn't spoken about all that readily when twisted fiction seeks to foster sympathy for itself about the slave tradition in the south back in the day is, only six percent of Southerners owned slaves prior to the Civil War.
And among that southern population of six percent, 13,000 free blacks owned slaves themselves!
Truth is, many southerners were very poor. And then as now, the majority of poor whites were far exceeded by the minority of white rich landowners. Whites had to work hard to survive themselves. And very often they had to work as hard as did the sharecroppers.
The other fiction that's lived longer than the war is that the Civil war was started solely over the practice of slavery in the south. To hear tell it Spielberg's new movie about Lincoln seemingly portrays that story as well.
And he's allegedly researched the matter for over a decade before making the film.
If that is the case, he's tragically ignorant having wasted all those years.
The war in the south
was not started over slavery.
6 Civil War Myths, Busted.
The other myth is that the so called, "Rebel flag" is a symbol of slavery in the south. Hardly! The 13 stars in it's center area are the first clue.
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