Essential points about the history of Slavery
Slavery was universally practiced throughout history and in all cultures. Europeans were also enslaved . The term "Slave" itself derives from "Slav" - a person of slavic ethnicity. Muslim pirates took more than 1 million Europeans as slaves in raids on costal cities, a practice that ended only when France occupied Alger.
They also bought slaves from Vikings who raided European costal cities.
Slavery in Africa
Europeans did not capture and enslave black people in Africa — they found fully functional, well established slave markets on the coast of Africa which were operated by Muslims — Blacks and Arabs. Yes, Blacks enslaved other Blacks:
"The slave trade is the ruling principle of my people. It is the source and the glory of their wealth…the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery…" ~ King Gezo, king of Dahomey (known today as Benin).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/9chapter2.shtml
In 1998 Yoweri Museveni, the Ugandan President, commenting on slavery, told an audience which included Bill Clinton: "African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other, capturing their own people & selling them. If anyone should apologize, it should be the African chiefs."
Slavery in Islam
For Muslims, slavery is an integral part of their culture. Mohammed himself enslaved people. He raped women he had captured in war and declared the rape of enslaved women as "legitimate", in the Quran:
Quran 4:24: "Also (prohibited are) women already married, except those whom your right hands possess: Thus hath Allah ordained (Prohibitions) against you: Except for these, all others are lawful, provided ye seek (them in marriage) with gifts from your property,- desiring chastity, not lust, seeing that ye derive benefit from them, give them their dowers (at least) as prescribed; but if, after a dower is prescribed, agree Mutually (to vary it), there is no blame on you, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise."
Young girls were his favorite loot. He also traded slaves, including black slaves. As he was very racist, he would trade 1 Arab slave for 2 black slaves:
Here is a detailed analysis of how Islam views slavery:
https://wikiislam.net/wiki/Qur%27an,_Hadith_and_Scholars:Slavery
Muslims took about 70 million black slaves. 60% women, 40% men. The men were castrated through an incredibly painful procedure that only 20% survived. The women mostly served as sex slaves. When they bore children, their “owners” immediately killed them. That’s why there is no significant black population in Arabic countries.
Europeans bought 90% male and 10% female slaves, as they wanted workers, which is why they also tried not to harm them durably, as a slave represented a significant investment. They allowed slaves to live as couples and have children, which is why there is such a substantial black population in the Americas.
Slavery in the Americas
Yes, white slave owners did horrible things. They, too, raped slave women. How they treated their slaves depended entirely on the character of the slave owner.
There were black slave owners in the Americas and Native Americans also kept slaves — whomever they could capture or buy. Such behavior had nothing to do with race. It was cultural.
Don Cheadle finds out Native Americans owned his ancestors
Don Cheadle [famous actor, MCU] discovers his ancestors were never owned by white people, but instead by Native Americans. Slaves weren't freed from Native American ownership until 3 years later when the white US government forced them to.
Poor people of European origin faired not much better than slaves.
Only 1.6% of all Americans owned slaves, in 1860. Anyone who wants to condemn the US for the deeds of 1.6% of the population cannot be taken seriously.
Abolishing slavery
The only thing that was different with Europeans is that they ended slavery, declared it immoral and then illegal. The original abolitionist movement started around 1750 in England. 1807, the British Empire declared that the slave trade was illegal and 1833, owning slaves was declared illegal.
British ships hunted down and sank slaver ships. In major battles, slavers and those who supported them were wiped out, at the cost of thousands of lives among British soldiers.
In the US, the Civil War was fought over several issues, but the most prominent one was slavery. Almost 1 million Americans lost their lives and one of the results was the abolition of slavery and the liberation of the slaves.
Blacks in America today
And now understand this: for any black person living today in the US, this is a piece of good luck. If you doubt it, travel to Africa and see how they live there even today — or read this fabulous book by a former Washington Post correspondent to Africa, Keith Richburg:
“Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa”
“Keith B. Richburg was an experienced and respected reporter who had paid his dues covering urban neighborhoods in Washington D.C., and won praise for his coverage of Southeast Asia. But nothing prepared him for the personal odyssey that he would embark upon when he was assigned to cover Africa.In this powerful book, Richburg takes the reader on an extraordinary journey that sweeps from Somalia to Rwanda to Zaire and finally to South Africa. He shows how he came to terms with the divide within himself: between his African racial heritage and his American cultural identity.Are these really my people? Am I truly an African-American? The answer, Richburg finds, after much soul-searching, is that no, he is not an African, but an American first and foremost. To those who romanticize Mother Africa as a black Valhalla, where blacks can walk with dignity and pride, he regrets that this is not the reality. He has been there and witnessed the killings, the repression, the false promises, and the horror. “Thank God my nameless ancestor, brought across the ocean in chains and leg irons, made it out alive,” he concludes. “Thank God I am an American.” “
The real privilege - being an American
If you are an American of any color, you are an incredibly privileged person — among the top 5% on the planet. Contrary to the constant BLM lies, white people are not privileged. They stem from a culture that is based on hard work, cooperation and a highly developed sense for justice and compassion, which is why so many white people worked tirelessly to abolish slavery. Anyone else adopting those values can get the exact same benefits - in the US or anywhere else on the planet.
The Smithsonian had the really bad idea of publishing a list of what they saw as "white culture". The backlash was massive, as people from all over the world and innumerable American black people told them: "that is not white culture, that is our culture; that is what we aspire to":
The list is so horrendously stupid that it deserves a lengthy discussion of its own...
Black people can and do succeed, in the US
The statistics don't lie — blacks in the US who immigrated from the Carribean have, on average, a higher income than white people. The same is true for legal immigrants from Nigeria. The only difference is their culture. They don’t seem to have the same victim mentality.
As Thomas Sowell says, those evil white supremacists must be omniscient, as they only discriminate against blacks who neither own books nor a library card.
In 1995, I spent 1 week as guest of NASA at a conference on safety and security in software development at Cape Kennedy. I had a great time thanks to our principal host, the head of the NASA software security team who happened to be a black man. We spent almost the entire week together and he told me how he got his job. He wanted to work at NASA since he was a little boy, so he got an engineering degree and then look for jobs with companies that worked for NASA and finally, he met people at NASA. A very smart man who set goals that he was able to reach. Being black was never an issue.
What did he not do? Whine about “white people” and racism. What I most remember about him was his kindness and his intelligence. The fact that he was black was completely irrelevant to our interaction. I’m sure neither he nor any other decent black person would not want to be associated with people who keep talking about race. As Morgan Freeman said: "How do we end racism? Stop talking about it!"
Blacks and Islam
The most grotesque part is how so many blacks seem to think that they should ally with Muslims. Looking at how Arabs in North Africa currently enslave black migrants should convince them otherwise… and if that is not enough, they should read the texts of Islam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iEL6k5E6o
One of the saddest stories is how Cassius Clay was deceived, converted to Islam and abandoned his great name — the name of a heroic abolitionist his grandfather had personally known— and instead adopted the name of a racist who had enslaved black people
Slavery in the modern world
It might be more important to end slavery where it is still practiced, today, rather than allow BLM to create chaos in the US to impose their Marxist agenda.
https://www.inverse.com/article/31386-countries-with-the-most-slaves
One of the worst regions is Lybia, where black migrants are enslaved by Muslims and sold on open markets - and this appeared after Obama destroyed the Gaddafi regime:
Good move, Obama! Really, that was a strike for human progress and the advancement of black people in the world - just like your support for the Marxist BLM thugs...
Conclusion
Knowledge of history greatly enhances one's understanding of reality and one's appreciation of what we have today, instead of complaining about how horrible things are. Knowledge of history would also avoid repeating the same mistakes over and over, such as Marxism.