Re: "The existence of slavery in the North has been whitewashed and sent down the memory hole.
Frankly,
most of our American history as we learn it in school – especially in
recent decades – is court history. It is a narrative. In the age of
political correctness, our American history has been rewritten, often by
Socialists and extreme leftists who have a Marxist (Economic or
Cultural) agenda."
That's precisely true,and well-said. I am a
historian and know whereof I speak, as I have been inside the belly of
the beast, so to speak.
Slavery is a human institution, once
found in all places and times and cultures; wherever humans were, there
was bondage and slavery also. Yet, when one reads an academic text on
it, of the kind used in many history departments to teach our young
people, there is no mention of that - or scant mention of it. Instead,
it is invariably a littany of sins specifically of European civilization
and the United States, i.e., the West. They call it in leftist circles,
"The Atlantic Slave Trade," meaning that their courses and books leave
out anything that happened in most of Africa, the Middle East, Asia or
the rest of the world.
These books and course also conveniently
omit the fact that Muslims are the greatest slavers in history, meaning
that they have taken (as captives), bought, sold and owned more slaves
than anyone else in human history. Few westerners know it, but slavery
was only outlawed in much of the Arab world starting only in the 1960s,
and the last Islamic nations of Africa to render slavery a crime,
Muritania, did so in the 21st century.
What is also left unsaid
and untold is that two western nations, specifically the U.K. and the
U.S., did the most to eradicate slavery in the Christian/non-Muslim
world over the last two centuries.
Slavery is still common in
the Islamic world, only now it is practiced more-discreetly and quietly
so as not to offend or embarrass the Arab's oil business partners or the
tourists coming to those new resorts in Dubai, UAE, or the like.
You
are also quite correct that older texts are more-reliable and free of
the crippling and ridiculous ideological cant now found in so many
modern works. If you want to learn something new, read an old book!
~~Anonymous
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Northern factories were no better. Company housing , company stores and were paid in tokens only redeemable by the company. We somehow allow tyrants to educate our children to conform to Adam Weishaupt's Bavarian illuminati since the 18th century to undermine and control our Constitutional freedom . Through secret societies in colleges of prestigious power in law and stirring these groups into Judicial and governmental positioning. a class system over commoners and gain power and wealth through the toil of organized work forces. with little on no conscience. of harm done. Nothing has changed . As they always controlled the narrative. and the press. The government and the people.