Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "MSNBC: Americans Are Too \"Obsessed\" With Freedom" video.
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Truth about slavery: https://theconversation.com/american-slavery-separating-fact-from-myth-79620
By: Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin.
Was the economy of the US founded on slavery? No. It was minimum in the north, by the time of the revolution, and only 25% of the south ended up with slaves at the end.
During the slave trade, only 4% to 6% came to the US; the rest went to the Caribbean and South America.
When slavery was made legal, by a British Virginian court over the Casor case, it had been indentured servitude before that, which consisted of people from every nation and race. Indentured servitude and slavery are two different things. Many settlers arrived in North America as indentured servents, willingly and under contract, including British, as that paid for their crossing. Those released from their contract were given land, and they became framers, etc.
Anthony Johnson was an indentured servant from Angola, who became a black farmer after his seven years on another farm. He then had his own indentured servants, both white and black. When Casor, an indentured servant of Johnson's, wished to leave to work another farm, Johnson brought the case to the Virginian court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casor
Because the Constitution has the 3/5's clause for the southern states, which was about the number of seats in the House, it does not mean that the nation was built upon the back of slavery. The majority of the population, especially in the north, did not use slavery, thus the economy was based upon other industry, agriculture, and business that did not use it.
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J.M. Obyx: Many forget, or were never taught, that the idea of using slaves on a plantation originates with the Portuguese. The first experimental plantation was in Africa, and an African ruler was involved in setting it up. On top of that. later on, several African rulers were selling their own people to the traders. Raids made up only a small percentage.
Even worse, the Portuguese asked the Roman Catholic Church for permission to do this, and it was granted by the church. They still have the original document. It was also the Portuguese that went on the slave raids along the African west coast.
The plantation model was a success, and the slave trade started soon after, with millions being sent to Brazil and the islands of the Caribbean, for their new sugar plantations. The ones later sold in the US, (estimated to be about %5 of the entirety for the time), were generally brought up from the Caribbean.
The slaves in the Caribbean and South America didn't have long lives, and the practice was as anti-capitalistic as it could get, because a slave in North America cost an owner about the equivalent of $40,000 US today, according to studies. The Caribbean and South American plantations literally worked them to death, or had them killed outright over fear of rebellion. These plantations were either Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch, or British. This is not counting the wars and deaths over the islands, which changed hands between these nations several times.
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