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thewritingfortress:thisisminorityprivilege:unrussledjimmys:i-have-been-johnlocked:avalonroselin:abunchofassholes:thisiswhiteculture:sheishurr:welpand if any of you white people respond with “wait but I didn’t do that. that was in the past”i need you to check your privilegeand then drink bleach if you think your hands aren’t dirtyThey’re not.Guilt doesn’t transfer from generation to generation. I am not magically accountable for something my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather MIGHT have done. Also;>social justice blogger>telling people to kill themselvesI love that there’s a blog called “this is white culture” that is solely devoted to bad things white people did, not their cultures at all.  So I guess I can make a blog called “this is black culture” and post gang and crime records and that’s 100% okay.  Or “this is Muslim culture” and make it all about terrorism.But wait, you cry.  Not all black people are criminals and not all Muslims are terrorists.  That’s unfair!  And racist!WELL GOLLY GEE DO YOU THINK SO?  Because saying that all white people are responsible for the Atlantic slave trade sounds pretty racist to me, given that, you know, that was between the African slaveholders and the British and Americans and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with my ancestors, who were incredibly poor farmers and serfs from Ireland and Lithuania who had to flee to America at around the turn of the century (by which time slavery had already been abolished in the US) because they were being treated like slaves.  Even if they had been living in America at the time when slavery was legal they wouldn’t have been able to afford a slave; in fact they probably would have been working with them in the fields and treated about the same, since the first slaves in America were actually white serfs.  But please, tell me more about how dirty my hands are because of circumstances surrounding my birth that I could not control and continue to treat me differently based on the color of my skin without actually knowing anything about my heritage, I’m sure that isn’t racist at all!*slow clap*Thank youwonderfulHell, my ancestorsdidn’t even do that. Even if they did, it doesn’t mean you can be racist against me, because some distant relative who lived in a different time that I have no connection to besides, like, possibly a hair color gene or the same last name.If you really want to get picky, be mad at all black people too. After all, if it wasn’t for some African tribes kidnapping members of others (or selling off members of their family because they can) and selling them to white people, there probably wouldn’t even have been an African slave trade.P.S. most early settlers of the US were indentured servants, meaning they pretty much worked as slaves themselves.P.P.S, less than half of the population of southerners owned slaves. In the north, African slavery never really happened. There were Native American slaves, but for the most part it was really useless for them. P.P.P.S: The second height of American immigration which brought people from Southern and more Eastern Europe; Italy, Spain, Luthania, Germany, and other nations didn’t happen until after the civil war, and none of these people were really rich enough to own slaves anyway. Because of racism (OMG, WHITES SUFFERING FROM RACISM??1?), differences in language, cultural (WHITE PPL HAVE CULTURE?????111?), and religious differences, up until recent years many of these immigrants didn’t marry/have children with older immigrants, the English speaking Protestant ones. Meaning, a good percent of people in America (especially in the North East and far west coast) don’t have English blood, many don’t even have relatives who were in America when slavery was taking place.While I agree with the general sentiment here, I have to say,Woah, woah, woah.African slavery was most definitely a thing in the North, and something I feel very strongly that people should know about.  When people claim that the North had no slaves, they are thinking about slavery as many Americans do, in a very narrow context, during the period immediately preceding the Civil War.  At this time slavery was outlawed in the North, but throughout the 17th and 18th centuries there was a small but significant slave population, and during the 18th century many if not most of these slaves were African.  The first written account of a slave ship arriving in Massachusetts was 1638.  New England was an importer of slaves as part of the triangle trade, and large port cities like Boston, Newport, and Bristol, Rhode Island were especially prolific in the slave trade along with rum production.The difference between northern and southern slavery is that New England didn’t have a plantation economy as the South did.  Rather than having scores of slaves living in slave quarters away from the house, many people in the North had one or two slaves who would live in the same quarters as the family (usually in a back or attic room).  One notable exception is Isaac Royall, who attempted to recreate the plantation lifestyle he was accustomed to in Antigua in suburban Massachusetts, keeping over 60 slaves over the course of his life.  Northern slaves would in many cases work alongside the family.  Some were trusted to do shopping or even learn trades and earn money for their masters.  They were less likely to know large groups of other Africans in isolation and were thus more “integrated” into white society, keeping fewer African traditions like the Southern slaves, who were left to create their own culture.  Because of this, Northerners viewed their slavery as being lesser than down South, downplaying the dehumanizing nature of the practice and instead focusing on the “civilizing” of slaves.  This included literacy.  The early Puritans took education very seriously, as only literate people could study the Bible to the standards they were held to.  They instituted early public schools and often taught their slaves to read and write in order to Christianize them.This practice ultimately backfired on Northern slaveholders when their slaves showed that they were of average or above average intelligence.  The most famous is, of course, the poet Phillis Wheatley, who also spoke Greek and Latin.  Other Northern slaves also used their literacy in order to forward the abolition of slavery in the North in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War.  "Freedom suits" from slaves such as Quock Walker and Mum Bett, who used the Massachusetts Constitution, stating that “all men are born free and equal”, to win their freedom in court, led to the emancipation of slavery in Massachusetts, but other states had gradual emancipation which left slaves present for decades.Even in the past week Northern slavery was in the news when a museum in Connecticut decided that the skeleton of a slave that had been given to the museum as an anatomical model deserved a decent burial.  The slave, Fortune, died in 1798 and his master, a surgeon, used his bones as a teaching tool.  After years of trying to decide the ethical course of action for the remains, the museum arranged for Fortune’s bones to lie in state at the state capitol in Hartford before being given his own plot in the town cemetery.So, even if we can agree that all white people aren’t responsible for slavery, can we please, please stop claiming that this is only a Southern thing and trying to deflect blame away from the North.  The whole country is to blame.  Slavery was never an isolated incident, and remembering that is vital to understanding our history and why our country is the way it is now.tl;dr For the love of god yes there was African slavery in the North can we not the historians are weeping -- source link

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