A lot of slaves were taught reading/writing/math if for any reason to do the jobs that required it. Some black slaves may have learned reading and writing along with the white kids while being home schooled.


Most slaves lived amongst the white people who owned them on the same farm. If you realize that you would understand that most slaves were not treated poorly as portrayed in a movie like roots. I mean you don't do that as a human being to people that are living amongst your family. History is full of black people who had good relations with their master. George Washington best friend was a negro slave. Lewis from Lewis and Clark took a good friend of his a slave on his expectation. He actually was a valuable member of the team.

Was slavery an inhumane practice. Yes no excuse for it and to have had it drag on as long as it did in this country is a blemish on our history.

Did slaves on plantations get treated poorly ? Yes that's were most of the barbarism that you here about came from. Most slaves though probably like 90 percent of them were on small farms in the south and the treatment of those slaves was far better then on the plantations.

The only reason I bring this up is people just look at it the wrong way. The people that lived in those times thought like people during those times and right and wrong or good and evil have to be defined imo as thinking like someone who lived during those times.

 

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I call foul on this one. There were no computers back then, how could they have wrote that?????

Its cool, the black man is getting their revenge for those backpay wages!

http://nationalblackfootsoldiernetwork.blogspot.com/

 

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Thomas Jefferson had a 14 y/o girl as a sex slave.

Why did we get rid of slavery again?

 

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