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Originally Posted by savannah
ok,......first of all, you have to understand that the victor writes the text book, SO,.....historically the south is gonna come out lookin 'evil' due to the slavery issue,.....i honestly believe that slavery was more about field hands than black skin,.....it just happened to work out that way,....
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Are you sure?
The lighter skinned Africans went for a higher price during auctioning..
a lot of the exploitation surrounding the Africans was the assumption they were dumber and more primitive.
They captured the slaves and forced them into Christianity, shoving the supieror "white jesus" down they're throat.
Blacks were used in circus' for amusement.
Those whites you were talking about where labeled as "blacks" so that they could be legally enslaved. Same goes for other non-white ethnicities. In fact most of those "white slaves" where European immigrants who weren't 'property of the slave owners, and after 5 years were free. Even the white convicts from Europe who were shipped over were only slaves temporarily. None of them were owned like the Africans.
The Chinese railroad workers were given the term "Heathen Chinee", or "less then blacks".
To think racism had nothing to do with slavery in the U.S. is ridiculous
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my bad jackhammer, need to look at all posts before commenting :<