What's Your Position on Slavery?

Clip from the feature documentary "Rebel Yell."
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Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Civil
• War
• re-enactment
• slavery
• racist

[bigdap100]

That's the dumbest sh*t I've heard in 2 years.

[ajax7925]

1. The book is called Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-Religious Dialogue. This book written by a black man - states that Black Arab/ Muslims sold slaves to the Portuguese.

2. The U.S> founded in 1789.. Slaves freed 1863..The British brought slaves from the Portuguese who bought slaves from the Blacks in Africa...before the U.S. was established.

3. The civil war was not about slaves it was about economics sanctions.

[uplift20]

Slavery as a system is something that is endemic to humanbeings, every great nation Eygpt,Greece,Rome and people Chinese, asian, African and European all had slave systems at one time or another the true horror of slavery was that it gave rise to the idea that one race of people were superia to another due to there race. While wars were fought to end slavery the idea of racial superioity grew the effect of this we still feel today. Slavery and European expansion brought out an evil side of Euros

[daWiiZarD]

What do you think about the Slavery of White People?

After all, Europeans were slaves in America before Africans were.

[notube2007]

Lincoln did believe in and support slavery he proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would have made it possible for slavery to still exist today. You folks did read up on your boy Lincoln a little more.

[ourearthhome]

My slave owning forebears realized that they need not have resisted the end of slavery. They and their peers owned most of the good land in the South. When the slaves were freed and the promise of 40 acres and a mule was not kept they had no where to go to make a living except to work for their former owners on the owners terms. It was called share cropping and land owners treated poor landless whites the same way as they did former slaves. Slavery never ended, just the nicer aspects of it.

[chiburui6]

I do not believe in slavery. I would be against the practise. I am from the south and if I were to be asked to fight for which side I would have to fight for the south, it's my land and my people.

You do realize every white person did not own slaves in the south and most whites were in fact looked down on by the ruling class of plantation owners and treated worse than the slaves who at least had some value in the system.

The southern people fought for their land.

[acandterra]

if the south needed slaves for cotton production it shows how weak their economy was as they couldnt actually pay workers. if the only way they could keep it going is from slavery then it means it was a failing business that should be abandoned for other ventures

[Domsta333]

it's inhuman to allow neo-nazis running around with their racist ideologies preaching 'whites are better'...maybe they wouldn't be homeless if people like you would've helped their ancestors stay in africa instead of stealing them away

[wilfredsnipple]

There is no slavery today and yet the south still exists. Understand that the number of people who directly profited from slavery aka slave masters were @ 1% of the entire population of the south. Also keep in mind there was a proportionately large number of free blacks that owned slaves. This is something not taught in school but is recorded fact.