The big Dirty Little Secret on slavery: half to 2/3rds of white people coming to America in those days were enslaved as "indentured servants" for a set time period (some of them serving in lieu of prison time, some were kidnapped and sold into the system) and were treated much worse than black slaves, who were a lifetime investment thus in general received better care and treatment. (Relevant modern-day example: how do you treat a rental car, vs your own car? "Indentured servants" were the rental car.)
Inb4 bu bu bu bu but WHAT ABOUT "ROOTS?" I SAW THAT DOCUMENTARY!!! WAKANDA 4EVA!! Checkmate, Dourombphfkyns!"Roots" is a lie. Did you know "Roots" was (and still is) a lie? "Roots" is a lie. I hate to be the guy going around bursting the bubble of propaganda, but someone has to do it. "Roots" was proven in court to be largely plagiarized from a work of fiction, and- apart from the flowery prose he (and his "editor"/ghostwriter) concocted- had no true backup for the false claims that the "stories from grandma" (stolen word-for-word from a book written by a white/Jewish man) were his own.
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Important video, see this before it gets memory-holed: 33 Fun Facts about Slavery! (And should we apologize for it?) <-- Hell no! At most, only 4% or less actually owned slaves, North + South combined, and those were the wealthiest who were able to afford slaves. In this text version of the video topic, Jim Goad says the true figure is more like 1.5%. Further recommended reading from Jim Goad: The Redneck Manifesto is a priceless source of Red Pills and True History Facts, extensively researched with footnotes. Here's a relevant excerpt, full of Inconvenient Truth on slavery, with sources and footnotes.
The big Dirty Little Secret on slavery: half to 2/3rds of white people coming to America in those days were enslaved as "indentured servants" for a set time period (some of them serving in lieu of prison time, some were kidnapped and sold into the system) and were treated much worse than black slaves, who were a lifetime investment thus in general received better care and treatment. (Relevant modern-day example: how do you treat a rental car, vs your own car? "Indentured servants" were the rental car.)
Inb4 bu bu bu bu but WHAT ABOUT "ROOTS?" I SAW THAT DOCUMENTARY!!! WAKANDA 4EVA!! Checkmate, Dourombphfkyns! "Roots" is a lie. Did you know "Roots" was (and still is) a lie? "Roots" is a lie. I hate to be the guy going around bursting the bubble of propaganda, but someone has to do it. "Roots" was proven in court to be largely plagiarized from a work of fiction, and- apart from the flowery prose he (and his "editor"/ghostwriter) concocted- had no true backup for the false claims that the "stories from grandma" (stolen word-for-word from a book written by a white/Jewish man) were his own.
Alex Haley was the biggest liar in a long time together with Anne frank's diary.