And I’m sure the American slave owners ran the spectrum from very cruel to very kind. The powers that be have done an amazing job of making ppl think that slavery was a purely British/American invention. Heck, I even believed the “kidnapped from Africa” narrative until my teens and then started reading up on the topic
Yeah - one of my eye openers to history was reading Winston Churchill’s “A History of English Speaking Peoples” - lots of stuff there that gets buried in modern narrative world.
And I’m sure the American slave owners ran the spectrum from very cruel to very kind. The powers that be have done an amazing job of making ppl think that slavery was a purely British/American invention. Heck, I even believed the “kidnapped from Africa” narrative until my teens and then started reading up on the topic
Yeah - one of my eye openers to history was reading Winston Churchill’s “A History of English Speaking Peoples” - lots of stuff there that gets buried in modern narrative world.