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Posted: 12/19/2023 9:06:32 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Now, go ahead and look up how DR got rid of all the Haitians in their country.  It’s a pretty ugly story.You will never think of the word "parsley" in the same way. |
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Posted: 12/19/2023 10:57:48 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That's sugar vs cotton/ tobacco. Between the climate and the work involved, sugar/molasses production chewed through people. It's one of the reasons slaves feared getting sent to sugar plantations near the mouth of the Mississippi and along the Gulf. And yes, Euros look down on American slave history as though their countries didn't do just as bad, or worse. We learned it all from them. The only difference is that slavery wasn't a big thing in Britain/France/Germany/Spain proper; it's was one of those icky colonial things, best kept out of sight and out of mind. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Another fact that I learned from this video was the total amount of slaves imported between 1501-1866 in these areas: United States: 389,000 Haiti: 800,000 It's crazy how the current world perceives the United States as the big bad wolf of the slave trade during that period. Imagine if they were presented with facts about the Caribbean and Brazil? I know, I know wishful thinking. It's one of the reasons slaves feared getting sent to sugar plantations near the mouth of the Mississippi and along the Gulf. And yes, Euros look down on American slave history as though their countries didn't do just as bad, or worse. We learned it all from them. The only difference is that slavery wasn't a big thing in Britain/France/Germany/Spain proper; it's was one of those icky colonial things, best kept out of sight and out of mind. Besides the point that Britain went into a five-year war (before giving up) with Saint Domingue to keep it a slave colony because they feared a slave uprising in Jamaica. And then Napoleon brought his brother-in-law and 43,000 French troops in to quell the place because it was too much of a revenue generator to not have it as a slave plantation island (only seven thousand French troops left alive when they abandoned the place). |
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