but obviously there's a lot of history out there, enough for many lifetimes obviously

I enjoyed my US history teacher very much she’d have us argue both sides of topics , bro we even had a topic about is slavery racist. That’s all I was thinking of last night when it was brought up

In 2020 that’s rare to see

lol

well racism arguably doesn't exist, the ism shit is postmodern

but slavery in the US was indeed race basedm pretty obviously

though at the same time it wasn't for the whole US either, but that famous matter of states rights

Yeah they tried native Americans first but they would get sick, wasn’t bc of their race for choosing blacks it was just the best choice

hence it became an issue that was at the heart of the first US Cvil War

But I still believe racism was prevalent then

well no, the spaniards enslaved the native americans and mixed with them

the french and the english not so much

I remember learning they did at first

and then when America proper was founded it was indeed conceived of as a white country, hence some of the argument to not even slavery to begin with since it obviously undermines that

But they kept escaping bc they knew the land

lol no the natives were expelled from the eastern seaboard famously by Andrew Jackson, the Trail of Tears

Before the trail of tears

I’m talking early on

it's because before America in the French and Indian War there was a loto f problems with them, and even after

technicalyl the Indian Wars are the longest series of wars in US History

It was fucked ngl

They’d give money for the scalps of natives like wtf

no there were still native tribes until trail of tears, but they had various alliances and agreements with the varying european powers and eachother

some tribes favored the french, some favored the english

some had old rivalries agaisnt one another

plus it is noted that the natives of north america were semitic featured, which would make them ideological not enslaveable

did u know they wouldn’t allow black people to practice Christianity

the blacks were seen as enslaveable because they are the sons of Ham, they were backwards a/f, tribal, and viewed as ill-suited to the higher functions of a civilization, especialyl a white civilization

right it was illegal to convert slaves, it was ilelgal to teach them to read or write, and so forth

this is because they're slaves

Don’t blame them for not being ill suited lol they got stolen from Africa

though some of the southerners did of course break those rules pretty famously, either for religious reasons converting and teaching them literacy, or of course the ones that fell in love with their slaves

If they wanted to they could have taught them to read, to be converted

which actualyl saucy as it is, was not that uncommon

To be contributing members of society

well no because that is pointless, they weren't supposed to be memebrs of society ever

Oops 🙃

There were some free blacks that’s not true

it's the argument of they should be here to begin with (anti-slavery) vs. well let me bring the blatts over here but i promise i will just make them slave caste (pro-slavery)

After their indentured servitude was up some led normal life’s before slavery

legally they couldn’t be bound