Looking for a Christmas gift that eviscerates a common historical narrative for yourself or a like-minded family member? If you’re undecided, here’s a review that goes over the main points of Flynn-Paul’s work.
Alleged massacres resulted in the deaths of less than 1% of the Indian population and numbers in the thousands, not millions–a record long obscured thanks to Stannard’s embellishment of native population estimates. Colonialism is not an outgrowth of capitalism because the church and nobility were fervently opposed to such economic systems. The “logic of tribal anarchy” meant no land was in possession of one tribe for more than a few generations and natives were invariably locked in intratribal disputes. No evidence exists that settlers engaged in biological warfare by giving natives smallpox-laced blankets. In fact, Thomas Jefferson established an immunization program for Indians, going so far as to task Lewis and Clark with disseminating the smallpox vaccine on their famed expedition.
How dare you?
Truth has always had the nasty nature of shrivelling beautiful lies on contact.
Hence modern societies aversion to truth,in any form.
Pretty obvious that common sense is long dead,when our chattering class embraces such lies and idiocy..
All their prattle changes nothing,truth will still shrivel their stupid narrative,which is why cranial rectal positioning is their favourite safe space.
If the white colonization was so awful,for the losers..why I am more than happy to use their traditional rules and methods..
Which boils down to “Me WANTS? Me takes!”
As and when I can do so at advantage to me..
The article is good but insufficient. It was not just Benin. Slavery was the essential industry of the Ashanti Empire in West Africa. This is why the country was called Gold Coast. It is now in the country of Ghana. Slavery was the principle industry of Zanzibar for more than three centuries. It was the main industry during the entire time of the Zanzibar Sultanate.
All of this international slave trading was done until the early 19th century as part of the Triangle Trade. It was wiped out by Britain and the Wilberforce Acts in 1807 and 1831. It was wiped out by the British West Africa Squadron, later reinforced by France and the United States. In less than 30 years, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was exterminated. After that, once Britain was well established in the Pacific, the eastern slave trade to China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire was also demolished.
This was the first time in human history that any nation had made a systematic attempt to obliterate slave trading.
The Congo was ruled by some monarchs who were infamous for their cruelty and exploitation of the subjects.
Leopold II of Belgium merely outsourced the “exploitative monarch” role.
“Slavery was the principle industry of Zanzibar for more than three centuries. It was the main industry during the entire time of the Zanzibar Sultanate.”
And yet every US TV show, movie or miniseries that deals with slavery in the American South invariably shows armed American slave traders running through the jungle capturing innocent Africans to sell into slavery. Not one ever seems to show the real truth: that those slaves were bought *from other Africans*, as you said.
Credit to the English for being the first to try and stop it.
The treaties themselves are hard evidence of a relationship that was not blood thirsty.. Natives were our friends, allies and enemies.. A complex situation of interests that went both ways.. Any story you want to tell is present..
It’s a fetish carved in soapstone here in Canada.. I will take a pass at groveling at their feet because they dont like me anyway.. Much like the French, it’s a toxic one sided relationship in need of a divorce.. A country where you can’t get to the point because too many fingers are in the pie.. We can’t even agree on our history anymore.. How on earth are we going to work together on a equitable future..
IMO Canada is little more than a UN run globalist workcamp.. I want my money back..
” Canada is not a country”, said Lucien Bouchard. Truer words were never spoken. It’s time to end this charade.
a very normal outcome when any stone age culture met an industrial age culture. the didnt even get through the bronze age or iron age. they were about 2500 years behind .
and most of the native narrative is made up modernity
The natives of the Americas were kind enough to share their tobacco with us, a plant responsible each year for the death of millions.
I have a copy. Just finishing off another book before I get to it.