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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1412035)	7/26/2023 3:46:28 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Wharf Rat Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576615

It's not woke to say slavery was hellacious. We should say it. And plenty of people did say it two centuries ago. ================================== "If it wasn’t for slavery, I might be somewhere in Africa worshiping a tree.” I used to work closely with two Nigerians. One was Muslim and the other was Christian. Neither worshipped a tree. Though I don't think stopping tree worship justifies generations of slavery.. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Everytime a slave owner died, his debts were settled and that usually meant selling some of their slaves away from their families. Slavery mostly began near the Chesapeake, Columbia SC and New Orleans. How did the slave populations of TN, AL, GA, MS, AR, TX get to there? They were sold as young people .... dragged away from their sobbing mothers, fathers, siblings and sold to slave buyers who locked them up in private jails till they had enough were on hand to be chained together and then marched across the mountains to markets in the interior of the country by ganga hired to guard the slave chain gang. There they were sold one by one and dragged away. Essentially slaves had no families ... they actually did because they were human but as a matter of law, they didn't. Families were frequently broken up. Practically speaking, as a matter of law and commerce they no more had families than horses and cattle did. The inhumanity of slavery went on for generations breaking up slave families as a matter of course. Slaves were observed to sobbing when their slave master died. This was mistaken as sorrow at their death .. it was actually sorrow at what was going to happen in their families following the death of every slave owner. The violence to slave families for generation to generation was far worse than the working for free and the lack of property. Even in the south, the whites engaged in the buying and selling and transport of slaves were looked down on. Try to imagine the horror of having your own family broken up in every generation and tell me that's only woke to say that was bad.