If they were to ever do a movie about a black slave owner, it'd be framed as him buying slaves to protect them from the viciousness of Whitey and giving them the opportunity to work together in a commune.
True. That is the common defense when you mention black slave owners, which did happen but there were legit slave owners who were black. I’ve heard people brush off African slavery with “well it wasn’t as bad”. We have interviews with former slaves in America. We don’t have that for African slavery. I’ve listened some old interviews with former slaves and as you would expect it runs the gamut from very cruel to very kind masters and everything in between.
Every time I hear “it wasn’t as bad” the first thing I say is “then where are their descendants?”. I did some quick math on it a while back and if the white slaves in Africa had the same population growth rate there would have been over 120 million white people in north Africa alone.
Which is fairly hilarious, as the one black slave owner that sticks in my head - pretty rich guy, the one from South Carolina, got sued when he tried to buy a plantation, judge ruled in his favor - was so disliked explicitly because he was one of the few slave owners who was actively breeding slaves. Whoops.
Or not. It's been so long since I cracked open those books I wouldn't be surprised if my brain has scrambled stuff.
If they were to ever do a movie about a black slave owner, it'd be framed as him buying slaves to protect them from the viciousness of Whitey and giving them the opportunity to work together in a commune.
True. That is the common defense when you mention black slave owners, which did happen but there were legit slave owners who were black. I’ve heard people brush off African slavery with “well it wasn’t as bad”. We have interviews with former slaves in America. We don’t have that for African slavery. I’ve listened some old interviews with former slaves and as you would expect it runs the gamut from very cruel to very kind masters and everything in between.
Every time I hear “it wasn’t as bad” the first thing I say is “then where are their descendants?”. I did some quick math on it a while back and if the white slaves in Africa had the same population growth rate there would have been over 120 million white people in north Africa alone.
Oh yea. A show about the white African slaves. Actually learned about them because of Sowell. Arab slave trade as well
Which is fairly hilarious, as the one black slave owner that sticks in my head - pretty rich guy, the one from South Carolina, got sued when he tried to buy a plantation, judge ruled in his favor - was so disliked explicitly because he was one of the few slave owners who was actively breeding slaves. Whoops.
Or not. It's been so long since I cracked open those books I wouldn't be surprised if my brain has scrambled stuff.
It was a black guy who made slavery an "in perpetuity" thing.