The Knight Life by Keith Knight for September 15, 2022

Seems to me that might be an attempt to avoid offending other people. The South imported “foreign workers” or something, not “slaves.”

I only get offended when modern people try to rewrite the past and cover up what their ancestors did. I don’t blame the current generation for the sins of their predecessors, they had nothing to do with it, but trying to ‘whitewash’ the past is reprehensible. We need to learn from the past to avoid repeating the same mistakes. The South didn’t import foreign workers, they bought and sold people who were abducted from their homes, crammed into the crowded holds of ships with little food or water and the survivors were sold, in chains, into slavery. Any who resisted were beaten, starved or even crippled until they complied. (Yes, runaway slaves would have a foot cut off so they couldn’t run again. They could hobble around the fields hoeing and picking cotton, but couldn’t run off again.) Female slaves were often raped by their owners. He got his jollies and increased his holdings when she got pregnant. Babies were born into slavery. Families were frequently broken up, sold to different owners far from each other, to prevent any possibility of them working together and running off or rebelling. Slave owners lived in dread of a slave uprising because they feared retaliation by the people they abused so heinously. Slavery was never pleasant or humorous.

I once heard a politician From the South speaking about the “ history” of the South,and he actually said, “When the Africans IMMIGRATED to America…”. And that’s why we’re still fighting the Civil War. Those poor humans were our only ancestors who arrived in chains.

And thank you, Wendy Emlinger.