Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "The Truth About Colonialism with Nigel Biggar" video.

In the US, I ask young adults "When did the Atlantic Slave Trade End" and I almost always get a date in the 1860s, when it was actually made illegal by both England and the US in around 1808. I also ask if women and blacks were allowed to vote in the US in 1789. Young adults always say no, but voting rights were by state in the US and some states allowed widowed women of property and free blacks who paid taxes to vote. History is being taught with an agenda, kids are being lied to by omission.
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Pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere was as terrible in its inhumanity as any place on the planet. Less than 50 years after Columbus, Cabeza de Vaca was captured by Indians and sold into slavery by them. The concept of selling humans to other humans existed before Western Europeans arrived. The English version was a bit more formalized and powered by technology, but no different in human character. Believing so would be racist.
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@rupafitzgerald3124 "high quality"? Wootz steel was pretty, but not durable, and steel not made in mass until the Chinese process, but true mass production of high quality steel came with the Bessemer process in England.
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@garveycampbell80 In 1807, Congress enacted a law to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place or country.” The ban took effect on Jan. 1, 1808. While the US federal government ratified the 13th amendment in 1865, Massachusetts became the first state to abolish slavery in 1783. Our children should be taught this timeline of history, and not the 1619 project version, which is anti-historical.
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@garveycampbell80 Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. A freed black woman was allowed to register a claim in the Oregon territory, it required improvements be made or the land would revert back to the government, only 50% of the claims succeeded, I've seen the deed of this freed black woman, she succeeded. While anecdotal, it proves your claims of oppression were not universal, human behavior rarely is.
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You were lucky it wasn't the Belgians.
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Never simple: The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed in 1817 to send free African-Americans to Africa as an alternative to emancipation in the United States. In 1822, the society established on the west coast of Africa a colony that in 1847 became the independent nation of Liberia. The treatment of these returning American blacks of the indigenous population is appalling, and should be taught in K-12, too.
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@garveycampbell80 AH! It's the "SEARCHING" which should be taught, not the telling.
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@tonycatman I have issues with the Rosa Parks narrative, as I was taught in the 1960s she was an exhausted domestic who just wanted to sit down, and only 30 years later did I find out she was an activist who was testing of segregation on buses for the NAACP, others had been doing same, only her action gained traction in the news. Rosa Parks deserves accolades, but they should be based on facts. BTW, whites could sit in Black section if bus filled up, and in some cases, like that of Jackie Robinson and his wife, a Black person could be bumped from a flight to allow a white person to board. There was no equivalent to that in the Jim Crow South for White people, so I disagree.
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@garveycampbell80 facts are gone after tested for, the passion to "search", in the way Socrates did, will lead to understanding and life long learning and self-examination. Understanding will never be "standardized".
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@afernandesrp Liberation Theology, mash-up of Marxism and Catholicism.
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Haiti
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My people were brought over by William as chattel property, Jews, they were then expelled back to France and disappeared into history.
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@afernandesrp Liberation Theology, LOL
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@christopherkelley1664 I get the first part, but not the Jewish part. The issue may be related to the US State Department blocking immigration of Jews from Europe, including a ship, the St. Louis, which was turned away, returned to Europe, and 254 of the passengers died in the Holocaust. It was US policy not to increase the number of refugees being taken in, and led to the "one foot law" we now have on the books. Never heard a rational person teach Jewish "moral superiority"?
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@jazdj04 Serious and correct, look at the record, slavery continued in Africa, the Levant and Asia long after the West ended it. You could argue Imperialism by the West in Africa and South Asia was itself slavery, and I'd agree, but there's no denying the abolitionists movement was strongest in the UK and America. The UK even has a Navy off the "Ivory Coast" of Africa seizing illegal slave trade craft.
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@RojaJaneman USA banned slave trade same time as UK. What you describe as slavery was not slavery in the Americas was generational, indentured servitude is not. In America a person born to a Slave was a slave, Very different.
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@samuelhoran7898 Just to add, the name "Sioux" is slang for little snakes or little demons given by the Ojibwe to their enemy neighbors.
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@KeithWilliamMacHendry yes
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@tonycatman yes, and in my post I mentioned Rosa Parks was part of an organized effort by the NAACP to challenge segregated buses, that was my point, I was not taught that, came out much later. She still deserves great credit, but it was the luck of the draw that her case got published while others did not. The myth of her being this poor, tired domestic just wanting a seat on the bus is pure fantasy. Her real life is more compelling than the myth, glad it is finally being told. Oh, same true for colored drinking fountain, if white one did not work, whites could use the colored, but not vis versa.
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@crowbar9566 again, Rosa Park's act was righteous and I support her action, but her story as told to me in the 1960s omitted that detail, and in order to promote an agenda, not different than today. There's a new kids book out about her does the same thing.
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@brentbeacham9691 "Writing About Music is like Dancing About Architecture" - Mull, Mingus or Zappa
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@kaybrown7733 During the colonial period, New Jersey allowed women and African Americans to vote, although these rights were not guaranteed and varied over time. In 1776, New Jersey's first constitution granted suffrage to "all inhabitants" who were worth fifty pounds and who had lived in the state for a year. This technically allowed women and African Americans to vote if they met the property requirement, although in practice, it's believed that the vast majority of voters were white men. However, in 1807, New Jersey restricted suffrage to white male citizens, effectively disenfranchising women and African Americans.
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@kaybrown7733 Public Television Show "Finding Your Roots, Season 3, Episode 1" Ty Burrell [star of “Modern Family”] had heard a family story that his maternal great-grandmother was black, a woman named Susanna Weeks, who managed on her own to make her way from North Carolina and Tennessee all the way to Oregon, and then to stake a claim, again, all by herself, under the Homestead Act. Women Homesteaders The Homestead Act of 1862 created opportunities for women that had not existed before. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted women were eligible to claim up to 160 acres of federal land in their own names. According to the act’s stipulations, these women could take ownership only after five years, when they had successfully demonstrated that they were able to “prove up,” or improve, their properties. Thousands of women took advantage of this opportunity, and an estimated 10–12 percent of all homesteaders were women." - PBS California Teacher's Lesson Plan
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@kaybrown7733 "Jim Crow" is a late 19th Century term, the racial segregation laws were on the books for decades before that. You want the "whole" history, you got it Black women could legally Homestead Land in 1862, the historical record shows they did, and successfully. Why is that a bad thing? Another whole history, the first person of color to be Vice-President was not Kamala Harris, but Charles Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation, a registered Native indigenous person and member of the GOP. One of the largest slave owners in the south was Black, William Ellison Jr. Stand Watie was a Native American who achieved the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, Watie was a Cherokee chief and soldier who commanded the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles at Pea Ridge, and later led a brigade of Native American troops. His Cherokee name, De-ga-ta-ga, means "he stands". They fought for the south and slavery.
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@garveycampbell80 False, emancipated Blacks in the South registered and voted in great numbers, but these Federal reconstruction laws were ended by local and state election laws over a 20 year period. Blacks could and did own property. As a result of federal Reconstruction constitutional amendments, African Americans in the South did gain the right to vote and began participating in the political process. During this time, many African Americans held elected office at the local, state, and federal levels, and voter turnout among African Americans was relatively high.
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@davidedbrooke9324 No, the US passed a law against the Atlantic Slave Trade at the same time, easy to fact check
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@trevorfuller1078 The United States Congress and the President of the United States ended the Atlantic Slave Trade in 18078. Easy to fact check.
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@joelanderson5285 What "lies"?
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@davidedbrooke9324 nit pik a few months LOL
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@Stephen-lx9nm That's not far off, but you could have asked the Black man; who started the Saharan Slave trade or what Western Africans gained power and riches both slave trades.
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