No. of Recommendations: 12
I mean, otherwise how did I miss the “good” side of slavery?
TRUMP:
“The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was...”Thankfully, Mad King Donald has tasked a former member of his legal team, attorney Lindsey Halligan, with helping to root out “improper ideology” and make certain that the beatings continue until morale improves at the Smithsonian.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/19/politics/trump-slav...
No. of Recommendations: 3
I mean, otherwise how did I miss the “good” side of slavery?
It's part of the Lost Cause mythology. Around 1790ish the South saw slavery as a necessary evil (most of the South). Then De Bow's Review, The Southern Literary Messenger, George Fitzhugh's books and articles (He claimed slavery was a more humane system than the "wage slavery" of the North, arguing it provided for enslaved people from birth to death), religiously - the Curse of Ham argued that slavery was divinely sanctioned, pseudoscientific theories that claimed Black people were biologically inferior and incapable of functioning in a free society, and economics - necessary for the South and the USA. By mid 1830s to 1840s "a necessary evil" was gone.
No. of Recommendations: 2
It's part of the Lost Cause mythology. Around 1790ish the South saw slavery as a necessary evil (most of the South). Then De Bow's Review, The Southern Literary Messenger, George Fitzhugh's books and articles (He claimed slavery was a more humane system than the "wage slavery" of the North, arguing it provided for enslaved people from birth to death), religiously - the Curse of Ham argued that slavery was divinely sanctioned, pseudoscientific theories that claimed Black people were biologically inferior and incapable of functioning in a free society, and economics - necessary for the South and the USA. By mid 1830s to 1840s "a necessary evil" was gone.
Just the same way Black people back in Africa regarded their slaves for thousands of years. Probably more benignly. people everywhere and always utilized slavery. It was not considered unusual or abnormal until Western Civ decided it was and forced the end of it. Nobody else did.
In this case the transfer of cultures, including the colonial years, gave modern Black people everything they wish to lay claim to as an Achievement. Which would never have happened if they had remained slaves to other Africans.
As far as The Lost Cause brigade and their thinking: I regard it the same way I regard angry Muslims bringing up The Crusades and "infidels". Or Black people whining about slavery as if it were unique to them. How people can cling to hate and ignorance to their own detriment generation after generation it breathtaking!
