Why don't the history books in our learning institutions tell us anything at all about white slavery?

The major problem would be in identifying the perpetrators of white slavery, and that would be, as far as I know, the Israelis. I'm not sure exactly, but I think that slavery is still legal in Israel as long as the slave isn't Jewish. Obviously such a thing can never be discussed because it would make Israel look bad. There's a seedy and dark side to that country that many Americans don't know about. All we are presented with is that it's "the Holy Land." Lord, I think that the most brainwashed people on earth must be "Christian Zionists."

"Christian Zionists" are people who have been misled into thinking that Jews are special as "the people of the Book" or that they are relevant in some way to Christianity. These people also believe that the destiny of Israel and the destiny of America are one and the same, all based on one passage from the Old Testament. The preachers who preach this way are twisting Christianity so that it is favorable towards the Jews, which historically it never was. The type of Christianity that I subscribe to is Martin Luther's type. Even though I am not Lutheran, he was an admirable man.

There's nothing Holy about the State of Israel itself. Aside from the human rights violations, they treat Christian clergy abusively by spitting on them. A large proportion of the population are atheist and cultural Jews. Tel Aviv has very large gay pride parades. Israel is a haven for wanted Jewish criminals because they rarely extradite to the countries they are wanted in. Also what your brought up - legal slavery and brothels filled with unfortunate white girls who were tricked into going there and ended up as sex slaves. It's all very embarrassing overall for a place that's supposed to be the 'Holy Land."

So to American eyes, Jews can never be guilty of any infraction. They are always harmless victims that get caught up in pogroms and engineered extermination plans. How can they expect us to believe that such a tight knit culture never did anything immoral? Their role in the African slave trade is diminished as well. The profited very heavily on that business venture. Slaves were sold for as much as $40K in today's money to plantation owners, but I'm assuming they were purchased for the price of a few bottles of liquor or some rifles. We see the world through polarized lenses which blind us to the misdeeds of others. This is why any book with an author's name which has the name of a precious metal, jewel, color in it, or ends in certain suffixes is automatically suspect to me, and lacks objectivity. This is why I would never read "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond - a book which is a favorite among some people here.

That's a good question. I think the whole situation of slavery is pretty much glossed over in history books in general. It makes no sense considering it's a *HUGE* part of American history. I really didn't get a deeper look into it until I got to college. I learned a lot more about slavery before, during, and after in college history books then in primary and secondary school history books. You also have to take into account that a lot of history books are written from a white American viewpoint, so to me any issues concerning nonwhites always seemed a little skewed. It's just not very accurate.

The fact that white slaves are almost omitted from a lot of history books is also suspect. Or whites who never owned or believed it was right to own slaves. Or whites who actively fought for black rights. I don't think they necessarily are trying to paint a picture that all white Americans are/were evil (even though it may seem that way). I think they're just trying to make slavery seem like it's solely "black history", when in reality, "black history" is ALL of our history. It's American history, so they could do well to tell it truthfully and not restrict it to a couple of paragraphs in a 900 page book.

You're probably studying American history. The primary form of slavery in America has been the enslavement of Africans in the American South. It was a primary factor in the Civil War, the deadliest war on American soil. The lingering heritage of slavery, segregated housing and schools, Jim Crow laws and widespread discrimination remains a political issue today -- and that's why you're studying it. Slavery elsewhere might be discussed in a world history class or a course on world cultures.

They do actually. It wasn't called slavery though. I'm currently in AP U.S. History, and we talked about how rich white people who came from Europe to the Americas would pay for poor white people to come over from Europe, and they would work in the same conditions that the slaves did. They were called indentured servants, not slaves. Eventually they were "freed" and given land.

Our history books are notorious for teaching us what THEY want us to learn...regardless of truth.

Think of all the bull$hit they tried to force down our throats about the American Indians and how sneaky and conniving they were, when in fact it was the white man who wreaked all the havoc in the old west. To this day our government only tells us what they want us to know opposed to the truth that would damage (to say the least) their image. It's all conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy in their desire for complete control. If people knew the extent of their dubious control for power...well, they wouldn't believe it anyway. Our government is definitely NOT what it appears and it's so sad that they have so many people duped.

Its kinda hard to brainwash the entire world to think "white is superior" and then say they were once slaves at the same time.

becuase we're already slaves. slaves to the government. there's no such thing as freedom in the modern world

In high school I only learned about American history. Then you had the option to choose another history class, and I chose world cultures. Most other people I knew chose European history, which I heard was really boring. My class was interesting.

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