Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "The making of a very modern myth about the supposed black presence in 16th century England" video.
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Read the recorded history of the slaves in the US. There weren't many that did a runner, and if they did, they had generally done something of a criminal nature under their owner's care. Not many wanted to run, and enjoyed their lives on the plantations. This, from their own mouths.
Many spoke of how their masters were kind to them, and didn't believe in “whipping,” stating that they were Christians, like their masters. After being freed, some wished for those days back, because they now had been yoked with all the responsibilities of a free man. Beforehand, their masters provided them housing and clothing, as well as a place to garden and raise their own livestock.
When one looks at the slave quarters, they weren't any worse than a small dirt farmer's or sharecropper's residence, which was how many white people lived.
What's told, today, is a carefully constructed lie.
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@candy-le4nh I won't quote this in their dialect, as was written, and will clean up the language, but here is a quote from an ex-slave named James Cameron, from Jackson, Mississippi, where they were supposedly treated badly.
“I've always lived, right here, in Hinds County. I've seen Jackson (city) grow from the ground up.
“My old Master was the best man in the world. I just wish I could tell, and make it plain, just how good him and old Mistress was. Master was a rich man. He owned about a thousand and five hundred acres of land and around a hundred slaves. Master's big two-story white house, with lightning rods, standing all about on the roof, set on top of a hill.”
This is only one instance of many that gave their stories from several southern states.
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@candy-le4nh You're only digging your whole deeper.
From Mrs. Heyburn, as remembered from her grandmother, Union County, Kentucky, on the Mason-Dixon line:
“I remember the slaves on my grandfather's farm. After they were freed, they asked him to keep them because they didn't want to leave. He told them they could stay, and one of the daughters of the slaves was married in my grandfather's house. After the wedding, they set supper for them.”
Out of all the interviews, most all stated that they were cared for. When freed, many didn't know what to do, having no money, nor a place to live. Many stayed on to work on the farms for several years, before they moved off. What you've been told, that they were all treated poorly, is a lie. Most all were treated well, with only a few bad owners mentioned here and there. Most spoke highly of their “masters,” but told tales, rumors, of a few bad owners here and there. I'm sure it was the same for any held in Britain.
One slave mentioned that when the “Yankees marched in,” they asked a slave, who was eating his lunch by the road, who he backed. He told them, “the Confederates.” They shot him. Worse, were the stories of the looting and burning by the North.
Simon covered this very topic not long back, and read off many quotes from the slaves.
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@candy-le4nh I, personally, do not believe in slavery. However, I do not like being lied to about it by today's so-called historians. I don't know why you think I support that.
Did it ever occur to you that there are some, today, that wish to live that way? That is what the left's utopia is, where you'll “own nothing, and be happy.” That's what the “commune” is, nothing more than a plantation, which was much like Robert Owen's New Lanark mill in Scotland. There are some that wish for this life, like the Hutterites, etc., today, but some want all of us to live it, even if they have to force it upon us.
The slaves, who “weren't paid,” actually were, in clothing, food, and housing, just like Robert Owen pulled off, though he did pay them a pittance in company script. They knew no other life, which was why some stated they wished for those days back. They didn't have the responsibilities of a free man, either, and they didn't like those responsibilities after they were freed. However, most were not mistreated, in the US, according to their own accounts, and I'd bet it's the same for those that worked within Britain as maids and butlers. The “runners” were rare.
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