Welcome to Keep tonight, don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian institute. This book is titled Black Slave
owners Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790 to 1860
by historian Larry Koger. Black slaveholding is a
historical phenomenon which has not been fully explored by
scholars. Graduate students of history are
often surprised to learn that some free blacks own slaves.
Even historians are frequently skeptical until they discover
the number of black masters and the number of slaves owned by
them. Have they also consulted African
literature to see if there were any slaves on the continent of
Africa in the last 10,000 years or the Middle East?
At the height of American slavery, the percentage of
whites who owned slaves was less than 1% to many readers, slavery
was an institution exclusively utilized by white slave owners.
The fact that free blacks owned slaves has been lost to the
annals of history. Yet at one time or another, free
black slave owners resided in every southern state which
continuance slavery, and even in northern states.
In Louisiana, Maryland, South Carolina and Virginia, free
blacks owned more than 10,000 slaves according to the federal
census of 1830. Many of the black masters in the
lower South were large planters who owned scores of slaves and
planted large quantities of cotton, rice, and sugar cane.
In 1860, for example, August Donato, a free colored planter
of Saint Landry Parish in Louisiana, owned 70 slaves who
worked 500 acres of land and produced 100 bales of cotton.
About 600 miles to the east of Louisiana in the county of
Sumter, SC, William Ellison, a free colored planter, used the
labor of 70 slaves to cultivate 100 bales of cotton in 1861.
In South Carolina, Robert Michael Collins and Margaret
Mitchell Harris use their slaves to till the soil of Santee
Plantation and grew 240,000 lbs of rice in 1849.
But the majority of the large colored planters lived in
Louisiana and planted sugar cane.
So the leftist position that slavery is all about racism
doesn't address all the slavery that existed before there was
transport, such as ships, which were able to get different races
to interact with each other. Thomas Sowell's lesson of
slavery is the reason people were enslaved is not because of
their race. They were enslaved because they
were vulnerable. If it's slavery to force someone
to pick cotton against their will, we have to be willing to
say that to force someone to perform military service and get
their limbs blown off and get killed against their will is
also slavery. So why is Vladimir Zelinsky
enslaving millions of men in Ukraine?
Why is Vladimir Putin enslaving millions of Russians?
Why did the American government enslave millions of white and
black and Latino and Asian men into the American Civil War, the
Vietnam War, the First World War, the Korean War, the Second
World War? Because they were vulnerable.
And what makes this bad is not the race of the people involved.
Slavery's bad because it violates the principle of
consent. It violates the non aggression
principle. In 1860, Madame Siphran Richard
and her son Pierre Richard Free Mulatos of Ibeville Parish,
owned 168 slaves. The joint operation of mother
and son used the labor of slaves to produce 515 hog heads of
sugar in 1859. Yet not all black masters were
planters from the South. In fact, the city of New York
had eight black slave owners who owned 17 slaves in 1830.
In short, the institution of black slaveholding was
widespread, stretching as far north as New York and as far
South as Florida, extending westward into Kentucky,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri.
Instead of playing the whites are terrible, blacks are
virtuous game. Why don't we just embrace the
non aggression principle and say that's the lesson from slavery?
That it's wrong to justify initiating violence against
peaceful people and extrapolate the implications from that?
Here are some quotes from Thomas Sowell Nationwide, a majority,
54%, of all black children were living with their mothers in
1992. However, this was not a legacy
of slavery as sometimes claimed. As recently as 1970, a majority
of black children were still living with both parents.
Whatever the situation of the black family relative to the
white family in the past or present, it is clear that broken
homes were more common among blacks at the end of the 20th
century than they were in the middle of that century or at the
beginning of that century, even though blacks at the beginning
of the 20th century were just one generation out of slavery.
From 1930 to 1934. Thirty 1% of first births, 2
black women were premarital, while from 1990 to 1994 seventy,
7% were. How can you blame this on the
legacy of slavery when generations that were more
closely connected to slavery were less affected and we did
not see such a correlation between crime or the lack of
care for education or the massive low impulse control that
we see today? Makes much more sense to connect
this to what Seoul refers to as redneck behavior among Western
Hemisphere nations. Racial oppression was at its
worst in the United States, especially in the former slave
states of the South. Lynchings of Negroes peaked at
161 per year in 1892 in the United States realize
governments murder that many people every day in warfare.
While this phenomenon remained unknown in Latin America and the
Caribbean, Haitian blacks, having been the most independent
of whites for more than two centuries, should be the most
prosperous in the hemisphere, and American blacks the poorest
if racial oppression accounts for poverty.
But in fact, their respective economic positions are directly
the reverse, again suggesting that human capital has a far
greater effect than racial oppression.
This was the point Walter Ree Williams made in his book Race
and Economics. He said, all right, so the
problem in the world when it comes to what causes economic
inequality or poverty is some races are racist to others.
It's the discrimination explanation.
He goes all right, and if America's the worst offender of
racism, we should see the poorest blacks in the world in
America. According to his 2008 book Race
and Economics, American blacks on a per capita basis are the
wealthiest blacks on the planet. That's who they're vilifying.
Thus, the institution of slavery, existing on every
continent and going back thousands of years, is often
discussed as if it were peculiar to Western civilization.
When in fact, even the African slave trade was carried on by
Arabs for centuries before Europeans took part, and
continued for at least another century after the European slave
trade to the Western Hemisphere ended.
At the heart of the story was the West's ending of slavery in
its own domains within a century, and maintaining
pressure on other nations for even longer to stamp out this
prejudice. Instead, the West had been
signaled out as peculiarly, peculiarly culpable for a
worldwide evil in which it participated, when in fact it's
only real uniqueness was in ultimately opposing and
destroying the evil. Although slavery in the United
States was referred to as a peculiar institution, slavery
was in fact one of the oldest and most widespread institutions
on earth. Although slavery has come to be
identified with the enslavement of Africans, that too ignores
the long history and vast scope of the institution.
The very word slave is derived from the Slavs, who were
enslaved on a massive scale and more often sold into bondage all
across the continent of Europe and in the Ottoman Empire.
In the 18 twenties, 6000 Greeks were sent to Egypt as slaves,
and half a century later a report to the British Parliament
noted that both white and black slaves were still being traded
in Egypt and Turkey years after blacks had been emancipated in
the United States. Perhaps the most important moral
legacy of slavery is a keener appreciation of freedom.
If the history of slavery ought to teach us anything, it is that
human beings cannot be trusted with unbridled power over other
human beings, no matter what color or creed any of them are.
The history of ancient despotism and modern totalitarianism
practically shouts that same message from the blood stained
pages of history. But that is not the message that
is being taught in our schools and colleges or dramatized on
television and in the movies. The message that is pounded home
again and again is that white people enslaved black people.
The treatment of white galley slaves was even worse than the
treatment of black slaves who picked cotton.
But there are no movies or television dramas about it
comparable to Roots, and our schools and colleges don't # it
into the heads of students. The inhumanity of human beings
toward other human beings is not a new story, much less a local
story. There is no need to hide it,
because there are lessons we can learn from it, but there's also
no need to distort it so that sins of the whole human species
around the world are presented as special defects of our
society or the sins of a particular race.
Those who mine history for sins are not searching for truth, but
for opportunities to denigrate their own society or for
grievances that can be cashed in today at the expense of people
who are not even born when the sins of the past were committed.
If the western world was so caring about the lives of whites
and just didn't care about blacks at all, you have to
really find it difficult to explain why the English Civil
Wars of Oliver Cromwell took place and the elites were happy
for hundreds of thousands of whites to get killed.
The American Civil War that took place, the elites were happy to
have hundreds of thousands of whites killed.
How about the First World War? Millions of white deaths from
the elite psychopath class. The Second World War.
The most vilified country in all of human history is white
Germany. And today the most vilified
country in the world is White Russia.
The problem is not whites are oppressing blacks or the the
elites are on the side of whites.
You'd think if they were, they'd be doing every single thing in
their power to stop the mass white death in Ukraine and
Russia. But they just don't care.
Not that they're trying to stop. What's the genocide that's
taking place in Gaza. The point is, they're
opportunists. If they want to use race as
something to pin one portion of society against the other in
order to extract a high social status, they will do that.
If ignoring it is beneficial, then they're going to happily
ignore that. If nationalism is beneficial,
they'll embrace that. If globalism is beneficial,
they'll embrace that. Here's Thomas Soul summarizing
it. People were enslaved because
they were vulnerable, not because of how they looked.
Again, military conscription by every definition of the word.
The claim of ownership over another person, forced labor
against their will, and terrible conditions.
I wouldn't say jury duty. While it is technically forced
labor, while technically a form of enslavement, it doesn't
really meet the spirit of the threshold of enslavement.
But military conscription, especially the Battle of Bach
moot in in Ukraine, where the life expectancy according to NBC
is 4 hours. Yeah, having military
conscription in that is certainly worse than slavery.
I'll end it with this quote right here.
What can any society hope to gain by having some babies in
that society born into the world with a priori grievances against
other babies born into that same society on the same?
Could you imagine raising a son and everyday telling him you
know? Men are only 50% of the
population, yet 95.5% of people killed by police, therefore that
proves the police are sexist. Men have lower life expectancies
than women, that's sexism. Men are 50% of the population,
yet 90% of workplace deaths. That's sexism.
Men are 50% of the population, yet the vast majority of
homeless people. That is sexism.
Don't try and work harder because that's just you being a
part of the system. The only thing you can do is
overthrow the system, start getting together with your male
friends and start rioting and start looting.
That's how you change. Don't bother showing up to work
on time. Don't bother getting on the job
training. Don't try to have good impulse
control. Don't value education.
No, you have no control over this.
It's all about the system. So put a lot of money into
political candidates. Make sure you vote once every
four years. That'll really change things.
The only reason you would raise a son like that is if you wanted
to basically have your son live a completely miserable life.
But that is how Hollywood, the media and academics, and the
Democrats are trying to raise black America, constantly
vilifying people for the color of their skin while the content
of the Democrats character continues to get worse every
single day you open Twitter. Thank you for watching Keith
Knight. Don't tread on anyone in the
Libertarian Institute.