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Yes, absolutely. I'd rather face hardships in freedom than in slavery.
Where did you get that from? Atlas Shrugged.
Yes, absolutely. I'd rather face hardships in freedom than in slavery.
That's true too. And while dad was slaving away in the factory seven days a week, mom and the kids were back in the squalid tenement doing piece work, or taking in laundry.
Blazing Saddles, Hell on Wheels, two off the top of my head shows or movies depicting black cowboys.
Those of us you are addressing on this thread are not as ignorant as you believe us to be about our history.
Wrong crowd.
Perhaps something to the effect, better maimed than enslaved.
Is that how they teach history to kids now? Just show them Blazing Saddles?
Here are some historical anecdotes of Robert E. Lee to show the depth of complexity in the issue.
He himself had no slaves, but his wife brought some along with her in their marriage. One slave ran away, who Lee had savagely whipped for the very reason I cited earlier. Such behavior demonstrated that a man could not control his household. Which would be especially damaging for a man whose job was controlling other men as a military officer.
On the other hand, Lee was always looking to free the slaves his wife brought with her. One he apprenticed to blacksmith in Pennsylvania. Before he left, the man asked is he could bring along his simple-minded brother. Lee told the freed slave to establish himself as a blacksmith and then they could talk about his brother.
The blacksmith returned a few years later seeking to buy his brother's freedom. Lee informed him (paraphrased), "I will not sell you your brother. You may take him with you. It was my responsibility to ensure that you would be able to establish yourself and financially take care of your brother. I see now that you can and are free to take him with you."
So like I said earlier, both stories (good and bad) were true in the south. Here, they were both true in a single man.
Where did you get that from? Atlas Shrugged.
I don't how to quantify it.
Let me ask you a question in response; if you were an immigrant factory worker who had your arm ripped off in a machinery accident, would you rather return to your master's home and know you'd have a home and will be taken care of for the rest of your life? Or be turned out of the hospital to a life on the streets?
Do you have an easy answer? I sure don't.
Or in the American industrial north either.
If a German immigrant father was disfigured or permanently disabled in a factory accident, what happened to him and his family? Who took care of them? The answer was simple; no one did.
Not that slavery was a day at the beach either, but at least they didn't have to worry about starvation or homelessness. A disabled father could generally count on being cared for until he died along with his family.
From my mind. It's nice to think you believe I sound like a professional writer. The reality was that because they were free men over time they were able to change that reality, a slave could not.
Given the choice between "benevolent" slavery and hardship I'll take hardship every time. And believe me, I know hardship.
Where did you get that from? Atlas Shrugged.
Your anecdote only proves the point that the practice of holding slaves was depraved and corrupt. Lee is presented as some sort of enlightened master who never the less had a man beaten savagely.
lmao it completely blows tom away that people wouldn't want to be slaves.
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lmao it completely blows tom away that people wouldn't want to be slaves.
I would kill myself before being a slave.
lmao it completely blows tom away that people wouldn't want to be slaves.
I would kill myself before being a slave.