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Almost every northern civilization has a history of violence and slaves. This is because it was cold and resources were tight. The only ‘nation’ that never had slaves was India (before Northern invaders introduced it). I think it was their the seclusion via mountains and oceans and a vegetarian diet that made them pacifists. I can’t see any other variables…
Democrats continued to make the lives of freed slaves as miserable as possible. Lincoln’s “40 acres and a mule promise” was cancelled by democrats. The reconstruction of the south which meant jobs for freed men was canceled by democrats. The use of Federal Troops to protect freed slaves and their communities, cancelled by democrats. State and local laws that restricted the civil rights of freed slaves were passed in southern states by democrats some had stood for almost 100 years till the civil rights movement in the 1960’s.
A welfare system that provided for the minimal needs of our neediest population that set socioeconomic restrictions that required single parent homes and did not allow people to work their way out of poverty for fear of losing their benefits was set up by democrats. Segregation was fought for by democrats, but democrats would have us all believe the lie that they are the champions for minority rights.
It sounds like those who lead the Left now are the same who led both extremes of the slavery issue back then. Neither side cared about the consequences or even the people they "championed". They were only taking their sides for the power it gave them over others.
This is Bull. Slavery = economic & political power for those enslavers in slave holding states and those firms in the North that profited from financing, and insuring the goods (cotton) produced on southern plantations. Cotton was the oil of that day. The northern politicians became leery of the economic and political power that SLAVERY was giving to the slave states. Thus the freeing of slaves had more to do with the Northern States maintaining political and economic dominance than it did about the welfare of the enslaved as evidenced by the reparations giving to the descendants of those whose ancestor's life and labor were stolen from them. What's presented here is HIS – Story to justified the brutality inflicted on a people for profit reasons only.
The abolitionists were the original American virtue signallers.
Considered themselves superior in every way.
The British abolitionists were just as bad if not worse.
I always find it funny some people bring up "reparations". But no one talks about "refunds". If Africa provides a refund (money back for the people), it should be used for reparations.
Good to know.
From a pragmatic perspective the British solution to end slavery by compensating the slave owners was way less destructive than the American Civil War.
The manner in which slaves came to this country is very much steeped in tribal African and Arab tribal traditions, and is very important to remember.
African tribal Chiefs and Arab slavers sold blacks into slavery according to their tribal customs, customs that had no place in the West then, and to our present day. Because such tribal custom treats the out-group as inhuman. Behavior that today's Left is very much involved in.
Slaves came to this country when it was a fraction of it's present size. Knowledge of the African interior for Westerners didn't extend very much passed the coast line, until the days of Livingston, by that time slavery had been outlawed in the West.
Since Westerners were not active in the processes of capturing other human beings to sell into slavery they were able to maintain a world without these tribal customs in it, and develop beyond the crude rudimentaries of tribal life.
When you cross the border into the West, you leave your tribal customs behind you. Discarding tribal custom is part of life in the West.
I believe what Dr. Sowell showed in this video exemplifies what Joel Chandler Harris tried to show as metaphors in his children's books.
The freeing of Slaves was extremely complicated due to the lack of an education for the Black Slaves. How would an uneducated Slave be able to compete in an educated society? What skills and/or skills had they developed to live unassisted as free people?
The truth of those concerns is made evident when one considers that an estimated 1 million Slaves perished in Union Relocation Camps in the 5 years after the passage of the 13th Amendment.
In my mind it was completely unacceptable that people would be gathered together in great numbers via the promise of food, shelter and vocational training. What they actually got was starvation and disease.
Lincoln didn't free the slaves, rather he made them "citizens."
If you were a child kidnapped by violent pedophiles, how much would you care about ' context ' ?
I read this stupid book 10 years ago. Slavery is poor preparation for Freedom – just look at all the Free blacks in prison. See the problem is too much freedom too quickly, not the racist police state that black people had to live in. Imagine saying "slavery is poor preparation for Freedom, just look at all the Jews in concentration camps!"
This has been the problem with hiw we have portrayed the civil war since the 80s. It was not a group of rebel slave owners against a group a noble emancipators….
Can someone do me a favor? Speak up, slavery isnt over. If you dont believe me go find a sugar field…
Suddenly you have lots of unemployed homeless wich don't have a penny to start their free life. Only a first rent moth in debt and an immediate job can give them a good perspective.
And Look what is taking place today….
Thomas , it seems your theory is handicapped as we all know in any society repressive poeple think oppressed poeple aren't ready to govern themselves. They are not ready for freedom. Sowell. Read history carefully.
all the reasons they thought it would be bad to abolish slavery are literally happening
Should've been given the land, true freedom from tyranny and shown some dignity.
Imagine the present we would have today.
Ending slavery in the mind will take forever
One of the great issue's involved with teaching history in our time is the tendency to generalize, simplify and exaggerate.
The reality is that there are as many stories in history as there were people to experience it, and it's a travesty that so many in our own time look at those in the past as caricatures, either all evil or all good. Never as real people confronted with issue's that appeared far more complicated in their time then they do today. What I love about Thomas Sowell is his capacity to take on every nuance, to recognize the challenges as the people of the time saw them. It takes a far greater intellectual capacity to entertain idea's so foreign to the modern mindset, and so as to allow for a better understanding of the past as a whole.
The left treats our founders as if they should have been able to see the future with 20/20 clarity, and never even consider the social, economics and political consequences of their actions in their own time.
It is the height of arrogance to think you would know better than they about the world they lived in. Honestly the last 3 years is the ultimate proof in my mind that those who so fervently condemn those in the past for not being sufficiently pro-slavery would be the most ardent supporters of it had they lived then,
I find it unsettling at times that we commonly display the injustices of blacks in America but seldom recognize the genocide of Indian people that still continues today
It's very telling that after the cessation of hostilities, the North made no substantive moves to include the former slaves in mainstream society. They were left at the fringes for another century because no northerners wanted them as neighbors, even as they continued to malign southerners for similar sentiments.
Freeing slaves isn't that difficult. They were promised 40 acres and a mule. That's all we needed. Truth is, it was far more profitable to own slaves than it was to free them.
Read this man’s credentials, listen to him speak and then consider the staggering arrogance of the person arguing with him
Too many want to look only at exceptional free Blacks, and assume that every freed slave had the same capabilities from Day1.
Realities is that the skills and resources to function in a free society are not learned overnight, and who is going to feed, clothe and house those who are still learning, without reducing them to dependency? We are still seeing the consequences of paying “sit-down money” to communities …. consequences in terms of violent crime, sexual abuse and substance abuse that are orders of magnitude higher than in the general population.
Ideologues commonly ignore the downsides. As long as they feel good, the consequences are “somebody else’s problem”.
I’ve always wondered how many freed slaves died in the years following the Civil War.
War deaths + refugee deaths + destruction of the South + creation of hate groups vs waiting a few years.
It’s certainly worth consideration.
Thank you Dr. Thomas Sowell. Appreciate all you do to bring us the True History.
If we had more Educators like Dr. Thomas Sowell. Parents wouldn’t have to worry about someone Transgenderlysing and Indoctrinating our Children. All day long Yahoo
North-Korean people going to South-Korea are a good example of today. They have a hard time adapting to the capitalist life.
If only newly freed slaves had been given their reparations of farm land and a mule most would've just gotten busy with building their lives and raising solid families
Sowell is a true revelation for me. Amazing man. I didn't think that a black man would volunteer to work in the big house in the 20th century. But here we are
Slave rebellions throughout history have been violent events. When people believe they have an entitlement to own another person as chattel property, especially extending unto generations and supported by law and force of arms, how else is the slave to gain freedom? The fear of a race war was the creation of the slave owners. It was also a boogeyman used to maintain slavery through fear.
By definition, anyone opposed to emancipation supported slavery. And at this time, many enslaved blacks were skilled in trades. It was not uncommon for them to work as tradesmen, earning money for themselves and their "owners". So, arguments against emancipation because they would be incapable of self sufficiency was no more than trite pandering.
The abolitionist understood that, in a land where pro-slavery advocates virulently demanded the right to own another life, or end it if they so chose, only blood would end it. There was no compromise.
although the author does a good job at explain the divide between those wanted to abolish slavery and those who were anti slavery. This is because slavery in its nature had no one size fits all cure. IN the video slavery is compared to a disease because of it's nature to spread, turn ugly and people beginning to repell it. Whether the slave was freed and given land or outright got freedom was what white men at the time were thinking. This is not what the slaves themselves were thinking, if we lol at the position of slaves and not free white men you will understand that slaves just wanted freedom. Because freedom is not free there was always going to be a price to pay and the cheapest price at the time was immediate emancipation. Because the free slaves were technically never free it is their childrens duty to fight the fight they have been fighting since. Many white men who can be said to of helped free slaves they did this at the expense of having to consider the consequences coming from they peers, the impacts to economy and white society at the time or even the safety of free blacks. Because of these consequence it was the will of the enslaved that out muscles other efforts that tried to free and empower slaves.
A reef is destroyed when people release lionfish into the wild.
John Randolph's words were prophetic. Great quote!
Sowell is not worth listening to
The civil war. One man died for every six slaves freed. Wow,
Sometimes it safer to be a slave.
Tribal societies do not build independent governing civilizations…..Not Ever in history.
Average iQ in Sub-Saharan Africa is in mid 70s range, Below average by modern industrial standards. Thus if circumstances emerge, Blacks that emerged greater degree of success, can be attributed to single factoid, A white ancestor in their gene pool.