They Admitted To It

I enjoyed the History Channel's remake of "Roots."  It is a story of one family's overcoming the horrible slavery system.  They survived, despite all kinds of hardship.

However, on the special about the making of it, I believe it was called "The Vision" or something like that, they had a historian actually say that the majority of Africans sold into slavery were sold by other Africans.  The show alluded to it with Africans in canoes with captives heading to the coast to sell them to Europeans and Northerners.

I was shocked that someone finally came out and said it.

--Old Secesh

No Mention of Black Complicity in Slavery

Last night I saw the History Channel's "History of Roots" show which gave the historic facts about their excellent mini-series.

However, once again, no direct statement was made as to black African involvement in the slave trade.  It was alluded to in the scenes shown which showed blacks taking other blacks to Europeans and selling them into slavery.  But there were no words to the fact that this happened.

It is very hard to get blacks to admit to their role in the enslavement of African blacks.

They did say that just one in three Southern families owned slaves and that most of them owned very few, likely five or less.  I imagine that life for slaves on a small farm would be different from that of ones on a large plantation.

--Old Secesh

I've Been Watching The History Channel's "Roots"

I've seen all three airings so far.

It definitely shows man's inhumanity to man.  Slavery was a horrible thing with the constant dehumanization.  It is too bad that it happened.  But, it did.  We all have to live with that.  It took brave and courageous people to live under such conditions.

I was glad to see the series showed that it was blacks who sold other blacks into slavery.  From what I have read, it seems that the vast majority of Africans captured and sold into slavery were captured and sold into slavery by other Africans for a profit.

This would seem to me to indict the race as a whole because of their part in slavery.  Those who sold the blacks into slavery, then, were just as bad as the Europeans and Northerners who moved the slaves to the New World, the Northerners who held slaves until it became obvious that the system wouldn't work in the North, and the Southern whites who ended up owning the slaves.

It Happened and We Need to Learn to Live With It.  --Old Secesh