Archive | Slavery

Critic: "Thankfully, this racist monster will no longer be a Congressman."

They were a lot more common than you think.

In this season of hate, we should seek the truth.

The ship sank in September 1861.

Curious behavior from the "newspaper of record."

The slave trade we never hear about.

It will not be easy to win in court.

British tabloids know more about US history than American blacks do.

Muslims need to pay up.

Leftist argues that race is not real but that Kamala Harris is black.

"During the peak of the Atlantic slave trade, Africans retained more slaves for themselves than were sold to the West."

They were denied bathroom access if they fell behind on paying her.

He enslaved fellow Samoans.

BBC lets slip: "It would be unfair to judge a 19th Century man by 21st Century principles."

"Government and slave-owner practices had an enormous impact on African genetics."

Good counter-arguments.

The boundless bias of British broadcasting.

It’s part of the logic of Black Lives Matter.

Many Uyghurs work “under conditions that strongly suggest forced labor.”

Have we reached that point today?

“It’s time we elevate this.”

There will be protests across the nation on Friday.

Oscar-winning classic is gone with the wind.

"Racism . . . undid the brief progress of post-Civil War Reconstruction, and animates today’s conservative backlash."

The men may be among the first to be "stolen from their homelands" and brought to the New World.

But it's of course not due to similarities in behavior.

Black American wants African nations that practiced slavery to pay up.

We need someone like him today.

Novel perspective from the Washington Post.

The forced labor is part of a broader indoctrination program.

"Massa, We Love You Massa. We Gonna Pray Fo' You Massa, Singing- 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.'”

"We're not going to forget Mr. Jefferson," local professor insists.

Especially since African immigrants are much wealthier than native blacks.

"[A]cknowledging Black people’s full humanity demands justice in reparations."

"DNA ancestry tests can be problematic."

What does the Quran say about it?

Why not, after Columbus, the Founders, and everyone else?

White opposition to intermarriage.

Blacks say $400,000 per year isn't enough.

Just as American blacks blame whites for their failures, Africans deny responsibility for the misery they bring on themselves.

An eminent scholar sums up a lifetime of study.

Interesting rebuke of the "1619 Project."

Whites active in the Underground Railroad should not be honored, apparently.

Confirmed with ground-penetrating radar and two cadaver-sniffing dogs.

Fake history in the service of ideology.

A better source for facts than the “1619 Project.”

David Horowitz reports from the front lines in a new book.

"I’d say that, almost from the outset, I was disturbed by what seemed like a very unbalanced, one-sided account."

No word yet on calls for reparations.

Prime minister wants Harvard to support the University of the West Indies.

Thomas Dudley was a leading politician when Massachusetts legally sanctioned slavery in 1641.

Recreating (some version of) the German Coast Uprising of 1811.

Was lynching a scandal or a system of justice or both?

We think we can guess her answer.

Most don’t even think the government should apologize for slavery.

Five doctoral fellowships for students descended from slaves and a full-time director for the Center for Black Church Studies.

But no one says, “Hey! That’s not true!”

Muslim slavers make white slavers look kind by comparison.

He "blamed slavery and racism for his plight."

Africans practiced slavery long before the first whites arrived.

Calls for reparations predate American independence.

Since race is a social construct, how does the government decide who is non-white?

They were spray-painted with the year “1619.”

Yes.

It was a “role-playing exercise” reenacting the Middle Passage.

Even New York Magazine has figured this out.

"[T]he reenactment won’t dwell on the sad denouement."

First step: Identify descendants of slaves who built part of the administration building.

“Body servants” were not soldiers.

Visitors attribute the focus on slavery to "political correctness."

A couple was banned from waving it at games.

The trauma of slavery passed down from generation to generation.

Thinness is part of white privilege.

University never owned slaves but says it got donations from people who did.

The further we get from slavery the more we have to apologize for it.