Message from @Japheth
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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
for a while the compromise was the pro slave people had their states the Old South and the pro-white states had the Old North, but then of course the South betray America because a Republican get elected and during the war the slaves are freed since the institution of slavery transfer over to the enemy regime which was soundly defeated
slavery is just so fucked to begin with