US slavery; "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures"

[LynnTheDem]

So we should bring back slavery??? WTF is WRONG with so many people in this country???!!!

Students at one of the area's largest Christian schools are reading a controversial booklet that critics say whitewashes Southern slavery with its view that slaves lived "a life of plenty, of simple pleasures."

Leaders at Cary Christian School say they are not condoning slavery by using "Southern Slavery, As It Was," a booklet that attempts to provide a biblical justification for slavery and asserts that slaves weren't treated as badly as people think.

Principal Larry Stephenson said the school is only exposing students to different ideas, such as how the South justified slavery. He said the booklet is used because it is hard to find writings that are both sympathetic to the South and explore what the Bible says about slavery.

"You can have two different sides, a Northern perspective and a Southern perspective," he said.


Some book excerpts:

* "Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." (page 24)

* "Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care." (page 25)

* "But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends." (page 27)

* "Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence." (page 30)

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com

:wow: :wow: :wow:

Gays. Women. Liberals. Blacks. Anyone not a "white christian republican" is on their hitlist.

[Obviousman]

1. I've noticed how after this election

the whole spectrum has had a hard shift to the right, to the point where now it seems like some are justifying slavery. And using the Bible of all things to explain their actions

[Ian David]

2. The Bible? Bigotry? Oh, no way!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Seems an appropriate time for a song

Sail Away by Randy Newman

In America you'll get food to eat
Won't have to run through the jungle
And scuff up your feet
You'll just sing about Jesus and drink wine all day
It's great to be an American
Ain't no lions or tigers-ain't no mamba snake
Just the sweet watermelon and the buckwheat cake
Ev'rybody is as happy as a man can be
Climb aboard, little wog-sail away with me
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
In America every man is free
To take care of his home and his family
You'll be as happy as a monkey in a monkey tree
You're all gonna be an American
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay
Sail away-sail away
We will cross the mighty ocean into Charleston Bay

[flordehinojos]

4. has anyone pointed out to larry stephenson that slavery denied the black

man and the black woman ownership of their own personhood. they were less than individuals whose thoughts, will, or feelings amounted to nothing... black anger is rooted in precisely that as it is for anyone who has ever had their personhood taken away from them.

and i am willing to bet that the book excerpts quoted in this post express to a tee how the bushes really feel not only about slavery and the black man or woman, but also about those brown skinned mexicans that they profess to care so much about.

[Ian David]

5. Let's enslave Southern Republicans!!

It can't be any worse than they're living now.



We could give them a life of plenty and simple pleasures.

[HuskiesHowls]

6. The rewriting of history continues unabated. n/t

[AirAmFan]

7. Hope no African-American children attend that school

They might be warped for life, like the chairman of the Economics Dept at George Mason University in Virginia. Walter Williams is not known for any kind of economic research, but rather for being an African American who once said, "Slavery is THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED to African-Americans!"

Here's a link to webpage at a North Carolina PUBLIC high school that provides online links to slaves' own narratives, including "The Life and Timnes of Frederick Douglass"

http://fhhs.ucps.k12.nc.us/media%20center/MC_Abolition.htm

[LynnTheDem]

8. Remember that bush official; "bush sees Americans as little children"

and bush is daddy.

So if we accept our slavery under our master daddy bush, we will have "simple pleasures".

[Mist]

9. Well, they were all talking about an "ownership society," weren't they?