Because the people running the slave trade weren't Protestants. There's never been a time in history where their religion was disconnected from human trafficking, whether legal or illegal.
These non-protestants hate menial labor more than anything else. They think it's beneath them. "Pride in a hard day's work" is not something their brain does.
WE DID pick our own cotton. The slave owners refused to. They see themselves as a shepherds of men, and men as cattle. Witnessing their material successes, Protestants imitated them, but were never a majority of slave owners.
Anyways, learn who owned the slave ships and realize we didn't invite this on ourselves.
Fucking Amish!
Time to smite those 18th century LARPers!
If they can pick their own cotton, why didn't we?
We SHOULD have
we still can
Because the people running the slave trade weren't Protestants. There's never been a time in history where their religion was disconnected from human trafficking, whether legal or illegal.
These non-protestants hate menial labor more than anything else. They think it's beneath them. "Pride in a hard day's work" is not something their brain does.
WE DID pick our own cotton. The slave owners refused to. They see themselves as a shepherds of men, and men as cattle. Witnessing their material successes, Protestants imitated them, but were never a majority of slave owners.
Anyways, learn who owned the slave ships and realize we didn't invite this on ourselves.
The majority of the slave traders were Jewish