I was fed the line that NORTHERNERS treated their slaves well.
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shplane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The US south treated their slaves well. Even in high school, I was like “mmmm you suuuure about that?”
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 day ago
ShieldsUp@startrek.website 1 day ago
I have been reading through this book on the matter: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist goodreads.com/…/14894629-the-half-has-never-been-…
The descriptions of violence toward slaves is heavily discussed and is quite eye-opening to me, since this is not the version I was taught in school!
nuggie_ss@lemmings.world 1 day ago
Compared to how other slaves were treated around the world, this is relatively true.
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In the era, “spare the rod, spoil the child” was considered good advice. If that’s how even loved ones were treated … slaves treated well? Press X to doubt.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, think about how many men already get drunk and beat the shit out of their wives. The person they supposedly love the most.
Now imagine if they had a slave to take it out on instead.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 day ago
There’s actually a lot of scholarship about how Southern plantation owners developed their child rearing philosophy on a misunderstanding of the Roman patriarchy combined with their newfangled “scientific racism,” conflating the discipline expected for both children and slaves.
TeddE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
All embedded in the modern slang ‘boy’.