{"id":252486,"date":"2022-04-21T05:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T05:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252486"},"modified":"2022-04-22T06:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T06:55:39","slug":"no-white-new-world-colonist-ever-enslaved-a-black-african","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252486","title":{"rendered":"No White New World Colonist Ever Enslaved a Black African"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Craig Roberts \u2013 paulcraigroberts.org April 19, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Black Africans frequently enslaved others from different tribes.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Identity politics, political correctness, virtue signaling, and wokeism have broken down intellectual integrity and scholarly standards in the academic world.\u00a0 Scholarship now exists in attenuated forms that serve ideological purposes, not factual ones.\u00a0 In short, \u201cscholars\u201d have come to serve ideological agendas, not truth.\u00a0 Even mathematics and science have been corrupted. Recently, Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran had to reject 41% of the mathematics \u00a0texts for Florida\u2019s K-12 curriculum because they contained critical race theory and other propaganda used to indoctrinate students.<\/p>\n

History, especially US history, has suffered terribly from the proliferation of anti-American propaganda masquerading as legitimate history. An example is the \u201c1619 Project\u201d that concludes that the United States originated in racism. A spinoff from this \u201chistory\u201d is something called the \u201cNew History of American Capitalism\u201d which argues that capitalism\u2019s existence was dependent on slavery.\u00a0 The impression one gets is that slavery is an American phenomenon for which reparations must be paid.<\/p>\n

Legitimate historians at the risk of being labeled \u201capologists for racism\u201d have skewered the fanciful claims, but they as well as the proponents of the new history overlook the basic fact that no white colonist in the New World ever enslaved a black African.\u00a0 The black Africans were enslaved prior to their arrival in the New World.\u00a0<\/em> They arrived as slaves.\u00a0 They were enslaved by other blacks.\u00a0 Some of them were warriors captured in slave wars while trying to enslave other blacks.<\/p>\n

The black kingdom of Dahomey was the principle enslaver of the time.\u00a0 The kingdom raided other blacks for slaves and sold the surplus. This history has been well documented, but it is not part of \u201cblack studies,\u201d the \u201c1619 Project,\u201d or the \u201cNew History of American Capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n

The real documented history is disappearing because it totally contradicts the new propagandistic history.\u00a0 Even the critics of the new history seem to be unaware of it.<\/p>\n

The association of slavery with racism is another manufactured fiction.\u00a0 All peoples have been enslaved, including whites.\u00a0(See for example: https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2020\/10\/23\/white-slaves-one-of-the-many-memory-holed-facts\/<\/a> \u00a0and https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2019\/03\/12\/whites-were-slaves-in-north-africa-before-blacks-were-slaves-in-the-new-world\/<\/a> .)\u00a0Slaves brought to the New World were not brought because of racism.\u00a0 They were brought to the New World as a labor force so that the abundance of fertile land and natural resources could be exploited.<\/p>\n

By the time the United States was formed out of the British colonies, slavery had been a labor force institution for a century and a half.\u00a0 For the US, slavery was an inherited institution<\/em>, not a creation of independence and the Constitution. \u00a0The Confederate States of America had no responsibility for the fact that the labor force of large scale agriculture was a slave labor force. \u00a0This was an inherited labor force institution. \u00a0Whites as well as blacks were born into the institution.<\/p>\n

When the basic facts of New World slavery are totally ignored, it is obvious that the new history is propagandistic serving an ideology, not the truth. \u00a0That universities and \u201cscholars\u201d corrupt themselves by loading curriculums with falsehoods is more proof that truth is less valued than propaganda that serves agendas.<\/p>\n

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