It doesn't get better than this Wrote:
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> Many of the Negroes had a better life in America
> than they would have in Africa. Had they not been
> brought here to America, they would have died in
> African countries, which during that time of the
> slave trade to America was being ravaged by Muslim
> invaders. Slavery as it existed in America was a
> much tamer version and rather benign than how it
> exists in other parts of the world- and certainly
> nothing like the slavery that still exists in
> Africa today. Slaves could purchase their way to
> freedom, and even received city wages working
> during the summer. Many slaves gained useful
> skills such as cabinet making, carpentry, and
> blacksmithing. This is true of the slaves in my
> area of Virginia. Because of savage Africans
> brought to America, they became Christianized.
> They had better opportunities here than they would
> have in African countries. In this regard, slavery
> was the benevolent Christian thing to do. What do
> Y'all think?
So maybe Meade is right. He's still a retard. People arguing on either side of that debate are missing the point. Whether slaves were were better or worse off by such measures is totally irrelevant. The fact is they were slaves and not free. That is why slavery was and is wrong. The treatment, food, or conditions do not matter, and we shouldn't even be debating those things.
Putting starving freezing homeless people in prison with hot nutritious meals and a warm bed may make them better off, but if they don't have the ability to leave when they want, it's wrong.