Awesome,
But claiming the freedman act was all about reparations may be a stretch. Newly freed slaves did in fact benefit from this act because they were in the mix of displaced southerners after the war. Further research showed that most of the 40 acres were eventually returned to the original owners too (not sure how that went). This is an interesting topic. I'm definitely going to delve more into it. Thanks for bringing it to the surface!
And, previously, in 1819, when the US bought Liberia for 100.000 dollars and handed it over to freed black people to resettle there ....
It is actually a very rich country. It has: oil, gold, diamonds, uranium, cobalt, copper, iron, lithium, etc, currently grosso modo untapped and green, in addition to fertile lands and seas.
In addition, Liberia was gifted a Constitution akin to that of the US (discarded in 2022 or so) and a flag that is akin to the US flag as well.
"Lies of omission" sure seem to be one of their "go-to" routines. Liberia, Armenia (Turkish genocide of), Ghadaffi making Libya independent from the Rothschild banking cartel so they got the US to bomb the snot out of it, then how the war in Syria started...'why don't we ever hear about them?"
I just read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, which is an excellent account of the plight of southerners, particularly black southerners, after the Civil War. Booker was born a slave and was freed via the Civil War (he didn't know what year he was born, but it sounds like he was about 10ish at this time). Booker went on to getting a university education at Hampton University (a black school which there bill you referenced may have helped to create) and a graduate degree, then started Tuskegee School for Colored People in 1881. I am 100% certain that if the claims made in this meme were true, it would have been mentioned in "Up From Slavery."
"Up From Slavery" is fantastic for helping to understand what the real politics were and the real perspectives of people, which is very different than many of the narratives commonly propagated. It is well worth the time to read it.
"Up From Slavery" is fantastic, especially the part where he relates how to older blacks in the community were so supportive about Booker seeking an education. It's the ultimate tale of where there is a will, there is a way.
Incidentally, the wiki article on Booker T. Washington is a hit piece about him. I wonder why. 🤔🤨
For those who don't understand what GopherEvertt was insinuating, Booker helped bring the white black southerners together. He did a lot to help overcome discrimination and he did it by pushing the values of education in not just books, but in useful hands on skills. Every one of his students was required to do manual labor as part of their education. He emphasized the importance of hard work and the intrinsic joy labor brings when you look back and appreciate a job that was done well that you did yourself. Booker explained why there was so much effort to stop blacks from voting -- basically, former slaves who couldn't read and knew nothing at all about governance were being elected and making problems worse instead of better for both the white and black communities. Booker proved that the aforementioned strategies of education and coming together as a community regardless of color were the best strategies to fix the politics problems. He also said in a very fair and balanced manner that, while the northerners did help the cause of the blacks a lot, interference from northerners also did some bad damage to the southerners ability to unify and move on -- such as pushing the aforementioned ex-slave candidates that had no ability to be political leaders. Booker also emphasized the importance of Christianity. Basically, everything that Booker valued and taught at Tuskegee is reviled by today's society that wants to keep people dependent on the state and not self-reliant. And the Tuskegee students were highly successful and helped to create flourishing black communities all over the country, so his strategy was proven successful.
Also, there is a really fine line between what some may call "slavery" and "indentured servitude"....one was said to have been abolished, (children being trafficked would not agree!!) and the debt system we currently live under, right now...So many victims and so little time...FATIGUE
Yes, in the early days of the country, both whites and blacks came over as indentured servants for 7 years (though the white people usually came voluntarily and the blacks came involuntarily). Not letting black people go free after 7 years came later in the development of the country.
Blacks didn't "come over to America. They were brought here in chains. Sold at auctions to plantation owners as lifetime slaves.
indentured servants owed debt and were released after the debt was paid.
Two totally things.
Wrong, very fine line...Black history , like ALL history is written and told by the the Controllers...WW2 history is such BS...Sandyhook history is total BS and that happened last Tuesday as did 2020 Election votes...now what was it you said about re-LIE-able History and it's authors?...Plato's Cave, Circus and Toast...History and Geography is ALL a lie....
Black history is written and passed down by people who lived it. In the South there are many old plantations and auction blocks still on display.
I personally visited the plantation Booker T Washington grew up on. Slavery was real. Some slave owners were decent folk some were not
I am not ashamed of my ancestors struggles. American Black History is real and vivid and can be examined by any honest research.
To equate American slave experience to indentured servitude is intellectual dishonesty.
Slavery was not a Circus and toast experience for those
enduring it.
In Arizona there are "Native American" ruins and canals all over the place...do I believe Indians are Native, NO. Do I believe they built the ruins, NO..University FREEMASONS did though, not the canals, they have no clue who did that, but not Indians/Siberians. One of the oldest buildings in AZ sits in Florence AZ..BFE middle of nowhere desert...but there stands an English style Castle...old pic I found online, now they have disguised it, it is The AZ State Prison...they covered it to obscure the castle appearance...do you think "Native Americans" built that then the CRAP we see as ruins? Same story with plantations...who's telling the story. My husband's Dad and Mom would take all 10 kids to Oregon and Washington in the 40s to work the bean fields, they stayed in field housing. They are white people....summer work!
Your inlaws had a choice. Americans of all colors did Agricultural work and got paid in 1940s Americalav. They weren't. Owned and treated like property as Black slaves were pre Civil War.
Slaves were Owned for generations. Your in laws could leave the fields as they were just employees.
Slaves didn't have the option to leave.
That's the difference .
In what is now the United States, the vast majority of early settlers were indentured servants who came over to "the new world" to work for privately owned colonies that were chartered by British royalty. They were indentured servants to the owners of the colonies for 7 years to pay the debt of transport, food and housing, then granted land upon freedom.
You are correct that blacks were brought here in chains from the beginning. initially the blacks were kidnapped from the Portuguese colony of Angola. While the Spaniards and Portuguese held the Angolans as lifelong slaves from the beginning, in the British colonies-- at least initially -- they were called slaves but freed and given land after seven years, the same as the white indentured servants.
The Angolans had already been forced to adapt European cultural traits as part of being a colony, including forced to adopt Christianity. This is part of why they were viewed as people -- they already had many of the same habits and mannerisms as the (mostly) British colonists. In the very earliest days of slavery, black and white indentured people resided together in servant housing. Blacks would become free and buy slaves of their own.
As slavery expanded, traders started stealing black people from all over the continent, bringing in many people from many different cultures. As more people with "strange" cultures were forced together, there were cultural clashes, not only with the white people, but with other blacks. Whites began to view black people as "less than human" and separation of blacks and whites began to be institutionalized.
Meanwhile, the private charter colonies failed under their own weight and the crown took them over as official crown colonies. Indentured servants wasn't a "thing" any more, and that quickly faded as a cultural norm.
Plantation owners were making giant profits, and they created many laws to ensure that they stayed in power and stopped others from getting power. Laws included preventing white indentured servants from getting "good" land (a trait that defined good was land already stolen from the Native Americans so they didn't have to worry about their plantations being attacked by the Natives), blacks not being allowed land at all, and to laws to ensure black people couldn't be free.
If you are planning a vacation any time soon, I would recommend a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia to see Jamestown and Williamsburg (capital of VA during the Revolution). Fort Monroe is a relatively short drive from Williamsburg-- Fort Monroe is literally the place that slavery began and ended, and the story of that pivotal piece of land is fascinating.
Interesting post. I plan to visit all your suggested places.
VA is a treasure trove of American history. I visited a Civil War battlefield in the Culpepper VA area. It was eye opening.
I'm from California and I learned virtually nothing about American history in school. I am currently homeschooling my 8th grader, and this year is American history. We happened to be going to Virginia this past summer, so while we were there, I dragged my son to many historic sites that I knew we'd be learning about in his school curriculum. Jamestown and Williamsburg are "reenactments," where they simulate life back in that era, and seeing "life" in action made it all the more real and comprehensible. My son breezed through his history assignments because he had already seen most of it with his own eyes. If you can, take 2 days for Williamsburg. It's only open from like 9 - 5 and you can't see it all in one day. Its really good and worth the time/money.
It has been fascinating for me to learn the truth about our roots and I am grateful that my son is learning "real" history and not the indoctrination crap I learned in school.
I agree with you. You did the right thing as a parent
NC public schools in the early 70s had a very extensive US history curriculum as well as NC History , World and American Black history.
My church field trip to Williamsburg was very good.
Virginia is treasure.
Lincoln also wanted to send blacks back to Africa, arrested and imprisoned newspaper reporters who disagreed with his policies, and started a war that killed more Americans than all other wars added together.
"40 acres and a mule" was a total lie. There weren't enough mules in the whole world to make that happen in reality. I learned about that decades ago.
My ancestor who owned slaves sold them before the war, because he saw what was coming. There are two thoughts in the family: either he just wanted to get his money out of them, or he didn't want to be the one to throw them out on their own without a dime. After the war, his money was useless, as it was all Confederate. I have one $20 bill from his "box of money." I do know he was very frugal. He died in the 1890s.
At least in Person County, NC, the "40 acres" didn't really happen either. Some of the former slaves continued to work for their old masters for whatever the masters could afford to pay in the depressed economy. Others moved into town and got jobs. You can page through the 1870 Census for Southern states and see what the black people were actually doing, not what a book claims.
Lincoln was not the shining hero of history books. He wanted to ship black people to Africa. The Emancipation Proclamation was only to punish the South, and it excepted those slaves living in New Orleans, Norfolk, and some other places. He was also a true life bastard. Tom Lincoln was not his father and only appeared when Abe was already a toddler. That's based on eyewitness testimony.
Awesome, But claiming the freedman act was all about reparations may be a stretch. Newly freed slaves did in fact benefit from this act because they were in the mix of displaced southerners after the war. Further research showed that most of the 40 acres were eventually returned to the original owners too (not sure how that went). This is an interesting topic. I'm definitely going to delve more into it. Thanks for bringing it to the surface!
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/FreedmensBureau.htm
And, previously, in 1819, when the US bought Liberia for 100.000 dollars and handed it over to freed black people to resettle there ....
It is actually a very rich country. It has: oil, gold, diamonds, uranium, cobalt, copper, iron, lithium, etc, currently grosso modo untapped and green, in addition to fertile lands and seas.
In addition, Liberia was gifted a Constitution akin to that of the US (discarded in 2022 or so) and a flag that is akin to the US flag as well.
Of course, this is also conveniently left out.
"Lies of omission" sure seem to be one of their "go-to" routines. Liberia, Armenia (Turkish genocide of), Ghadaffi making Libya independent from the Rothschild banking cartel so they got the US to bomb the snot out of it, then how the war in Syria started...'why don't we ever hear about them?"
So much history needing un-corrupting.
Indeed. One the reasons why Q said to compare history books.
It seems to me, having read quite a few books from the end of the 19th century, there is a huge difference to those of today .....
Any suggestions on titles?
I just read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, which is an excellent account of the plight of southerners, particularly black southerners, after the Civil War. Booker was born a slave and was freed via the Civil War (he didn't know what year he was born, but it sounds like he was about 10ish at this time). Booker went on to getting a university education at Hampton University (a black school which there bill you referenced may have helped to create) and a graduate degree, then started Tuskegee School for Colored People in 1881. I am 100% certain that if the claims made in this meme were true, it would have been mentioned in "Up From Slavery."
"Up From Slavery" is fantastic for helping to understand what the real politics were and the real perspectives of people, which is very different than many of the narratives commonly propagated. It is well worth the time to read it.
"Up From Slavery" is fantastic, especially the part where he relates how to older blacks in the community were so supportive about Booker seeking an education. It's the ultimate tale of where there is a will, there is a way.
Incidentally, the wiki article on Booker T. Washington is a hit piece about him. I wonder why. 🤔🤨
For those who don't understand what GopherEvertt was insinuating, Booker helped bring the white black southerners together. He did a lot to help overcome discrimination and he did it by pushing the values of education in not just books, but in useful hands on skills. Every one of his students was required to do manual labor as part of their education. He emphasized the importance of hard work and the intrinsic joy labor brings when you look back and appreciate a job that was done well that you did yourself. Booker explained why there was so much effort to stop blacks from voting -- basically, former slaves who couldn't read and knew nothing at all about governance were being elected and making problems worse instead of better for both the white and black communities. Booker proved that the aforementioned strategies of education and coming together as a community regardless of color were the best strategies to fix the politics problems. He also said in a very fair and balanced manner that, while the northerners did help the cause of the blacks a lot, interference from northerners also did some bad damage to the southerners ability to unify and move on -- such as pushing the aforementioned ex-slave candidates that had no ability to be political leaders. Booker also emphasized the importance of Christianity. Basically, everything that Booker valued and taught at Tuskegee is reviled by today's society that wants to keep people dependent on the state and not self-reliant. And the Tuskegee students were highly successful and helped to create flourishing black communities all over the country, so his strategy was proven successful.
Thank you for your amazing summary Christine!
The truth of our history has been adulterated and downright changed. Much of it due to school curriculum material. So corrupt!
Also, there is a really fine line between what some may call "slavery" and "indentured servitude"....one was said to have been abolished, (children being trafficked would not agree!!) and the debt system we currently live under, right now...So many victims and so little time...FATIGUE
Yes, in the early days of the country, both whites and blacks came over as indentured servants for 7 years (though the white people usually came voluntarily and the blacks came involuntarily). Not letting black people go free after 7 years came later in the development of the country.
Blacks didn't "come over to America. They were brought here in chains. Sold at auctions to plantation owners as lifetime slaves. indentured servants owed debt and were released after the debt was paid. Two totally things.
Wrong, very fine line...Black history , like ALL history is written and told by the the Controllers...WW2 history is such BS...Sandyhook history is total BS and that happened last Tuesday as did 2020 Election votes...now what was it you said about re-LIE-able History and it's authors?...Plato's Cave, Circus and Toast...History and Geography is ALL a lie....
Black history is written and passed down by people who lived it. In the South there are many old plantations and auction blocks still on display. I personally visited the plantation Booker T Washington grew up on. Slavery was real. Some slave owners were decent folk some were not I am not ashamed of my ancestors struggles. American Black History is real and vivid and can be examined by any honest research. To equate American slave experience to indentured servitude is intellectual dishonesty. Slavery was not a Circus and toast experience for those
enduring it.
In Arizona there are "Native American" ruins and canals all over the place...do I believe Indians are Native, NO. Do I believe they built the ruins, NO..University FREEMASONS did though, not the canals, they have no clue who did that, but not Indians/Siberians. One of the oldest buildings in AZ sits in Florence AZ..BFE middle of nowhere desert...but there stands an English style Castle...old pic I found online, now they have disguised it, it is The AZ State Prison...they covered it to obscure the castle appearance...do you think "Native Americans" built that then the CRAP we see as ruins? Same story with plantations...who's telling the story. My husband's Dad and Mom would take all 10 kids to Oregon and Washington in the 40s to work the bean fields, they stayed in field housing. They are white people....summer work!
Your inlaws had a choice. Americans of all colors did Agricultural work and got paid in 1940s Americalav. They weren't. Owned and treated like property as Black slaves were pre Civil War. Slaves were Owned for generations. Your in laws could leave the fields as they were just employees. Slaves didn't have the option to leave. That's the difference .
I wrote a detailed explanation of the earliest days of slavery/indentured servitude in the original colonies.
Thank you, I do appreciate your research, I'm willing to be wrong and learn something new.
In what is now the United States, the vast majority of early settlers were indentured servants who came over to "the new world" to work for privately owned colonies that were chartered by British royalty. They were indentured servants to the owners of the colonies for 7 years to pay the debt of transport, food and housing, then granted land upon freedom.
You are correct that blacks were brought here in chains from the beginning. initially the blacks were kidnapped from the Portuguese colony of Angola. While the Spaniards and Portuguese held the Angolans as lifelong slaves from the beginning, in the British colonies-- at least initially -- they were called slaves but freed and given land after seven years, the same as the white indentured servants.
The Angolans had already been forced to adapt European cultural traits as part of being a colony, including forced to adopt Christianity. This is part of why they were viewed as people -- they already had many of the same habits and mannerisms as the (mostly) British colonists. In the very earliest days of slavery, black and white indentured people resided together in servant housing. Blacks would become free and buy slaves of their own.
As slavery expanded, traders started stealing black people from all over the continent, bringing in many people from many different cultures. As more people with "strange" cultures were forced together, there were cultural clashes, not only with the white people, but with other blacks. Whites began to view black people as "less than human" and separation of blacks and whites began to be institutionalized.
Meanwhile, the private charter colonies failed under their own weight and the crown took them over as official crown colonies. Indentured servants wasn't a "thing" any more, and that quickly faded as a cultural norm.
Plantation owners were making giant profits, and they created many laws to ensure that they stayed in power and stopped others from getting power. Laws included preventing white indentured servants from getting "good" land (a trait that defined good was land already stolen from the Native Americans so they didn't have to worry about their plantations being attacked by the Natives), blacks not being allowed land at all, and to laws to ensure black people couldn't be free.
If you are planning a vacation any time soon, I would recommend a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia to see Jamestown and Williamsburg (capital of VA during the Revolution). Fort Monroe is a relatively short drive from Williamsburg-- Fort Monroe is literally the place that slavery began and ended, and the story of that pivotal piece of land is fascinating.
Interesting post. I plan to visit all your suggested places. VA is a treasure trove of American history. I visited a Civil War battlefield in the Culpepper VA area. It was eye opening.
I'm from California and I learned virtually nothing about American history in school. I am currently homeschooling my 8th grader, and this year is American history. We happened to be going to Virginia this past summer, so while we were there, I dragged my son to many historic sites that I knew we'd be learning about in his school curriculum. Jamestown and Williamsburg are "reenactments," where they simulate life back in that era, and seeing "life" in action made it all the more real and comprehensible. My son breezed through his history assignments because he had already seen most of it with his own eyes. If you can, take 2 days for Williamsburg. It's only open from like 9 - 5 and you can't see it all in one day. Its really good and worth the time/money.
It has been fascinating for me to learn the truth about our roots and I am grateful that my son is learning "real" history and not the indoctrination crap I learned in school.
I agree with you. You did the right thing as a parent NC public schools in the early 70s had a very extensive US history curriculum as well as NC History , World and American Black history. My church field trip to Williamsburg was very good. Virginia is treasure.
Who is surprised? Not me
This is why Spike Lee's production company is called 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks.
Although the "40 acres and a mule" didn't really happen for most people. There weren't enough mules in the world at the time to make that possible.
Lincoln also wanted to send blacks back to Africa, arrested and imprisoned newspaper reporters who disagreed with his policies, and started a war that killed more Americans than all other wars added together.
"40 acres and a mule" was a total lie. There weren't enough mules in the whole world to make that happen in reality. I learned about that decades ago.
My ancestor who owned slaves sold them before the war, because he saw what was coming. There are two thoughts in the family: either he just wanted to get his money out of them, or he didn't want to be the one to throw them out on their own without a dime. After the war, his money was useless, as it was all Confederate. I have one $20 bill from his "box of money." I do know he was very frugal. He died in the 1890s.
At least in Person County, NC, the "40 acres" didn't really happen either. Some of the former slaves continued to work for their old masters for whatever the masters could afford to pay in the depressed economy. Others moved into town and got jobs. You can page through the 1870 Census for Southern states and see what the black people were actually doing, not what a book claims.
Lincoln was not the shining hero of history books. He wanted to ship black people to Africa. The Emancipation Proclamation was only to punish the South, and it excepted those slaves living in New Orleans, Norfolk, and some other places. He was also a true life bastard. Tom Lincoln was not his father and only appeared when Abe was already a toddler. That's based on eyewitness testimony.
How can I save this as a pic? On iPhone
Just go to pic above and press on it - hit save photo option- voila 👍🏻☘️
Please don't save this meme as it is formatted because the information is inaccurate. We need to spread truth, not more revisionist history.