Zone1 “Chattel Slavery”

[Carl in Michigan]

Yes, we can indeed share the same facts.

The Homestead Acts gave away 246 million acres of land. To qualify for Homestead land, a person had to be a citizen of the United States, and blacks were not given citizenship until 1866. Research shows that 99.73 percent of that land went to whites, including white immigrants.1.5 million white families were given free land, the equivalent of a minimum of $500,000 per family. Today, 93 million whites still benefit from the Homestead Act, this is about forty percent of the current white population in America.

Citation: Shawn D Rochester, The Black Tax: The Cost of Being Black in America, pp, 49

Sucks to be you. Try Africa. Maybe you'll be happy there

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Seemed to me you were justifying and/or excusing US slavery because others practiced slavery too.

while you enable retards like IM2 by helping him pretend only the US was evil and the be all of slavery.

 

[alang1216]

I don't believe that was what he was doing. I think he was questioning why the US is singled out for reparations.

Who is singling the US out? I've only heard about US reparations from the US.

 

[alang1216]

Point me to someone I held as a slave and I'll happily pay them reparations.

Typical GOP response.

 

[alang1216]

while you enable retards like IM2 by helping him pretend only the US was evil and the be all of slavery.

I don't recall IM2 saying only the US had slaves but I think we can all agree US definitely had millions of slaves and treated them inhumanely.

 

[AMart]

Chattel slavery was often better to be a slave because the owner had a vested interest in keeping their slaves in good health so they would be productive. Others like Irish immigrants were worked to death. (similar to company slaves in the W. Indies).

As many as 20,000 Irish immigrants perished from cholera and yellow fever during the six-year construction of the New Basin Canal, begun in 1832. The victims were buried wherever they died.

The immigrant Irishmen who hacked through swampland with picks and shovels were paid $1 a day for their labor. Wives were paid 50 cents for a half-day's work, considered too dangerous for slaves who sold from $500 to $1,500 each.

Mass grave of Irish diggers stirs quarrel - UPI Archives

The mass grave of thousands of Irish ditch diggers killed by disease 150 years ago is at the center of a neighborhood quarrel over a housing project....

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[Crepitus]

Slavery was not uniquely evil in America.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I don't recall IM2 saying only the US had slaves but I think we can all agree US definitely had millions of slaves and treated them inhumanely.

actually, the slaves in the USA SURVIVED while the slaves in central and South America died by the millions. Learn a little history.