Creative Historical Interpretations Are
Not History

Excellent article! Read and save. Also read "Out of America" written by a black man who went to Africa to find the truth.

Where is the voice for real American history? Where are you, Dr. Joke the great educator of FJB game, speak the facts!

Slavery is a part of all human history. The Egptians had slaves, the Bible is full of stories of slaves. Any idiot who would place the origins of slaves in the US is either a dunce and can't read or a liar who prefers not to. Mankind divided in tribes and the strongest often fought and defeated the weakest and treated them as a spoil of war that is a sad fact. Live with it, get over it. Grow up,be an adult. What happened here two hundred years ago has nothing to do with you. There are actual places where slavery still exists, here it is mostly in the fantasies of weak minded individuals who refuse to accept responsibilities for their own actions.

I always look for old history books in antique book stores.

History of civilization is full of 'injustices' as far as the eye can see and beyond. It is very difficult to fit them to today's mores, standards and yardsticks. Unfortunately the real purpose of those who do this is to try to gain some advantage, undue perhaps, which they otherwise will not. It is undeniable that history does have lessons and guidelines for us. But these should be focused on correcting injustices in the future. Not on holding today's society responsible for people did two/three hundred years ago. Fortunately human culture evolves and flows in such a way that many of such inequalities are taken care of by natural forces. I for one believe that blacks would have ultimately arrived at the same place where there are today without the Civil Rights movement. Maybe without the horrific damage inflicted on their culture by the great society, War on Poverty and other programs. This is not a very popular view and will be denounced by every University of 'repute'. But it bears consideration and discussion. Three hundred years ago White European civilization had created such a gap between themselves and other cultures - in organization, scientific knowledge, military power - that an unnatural imbalance had come into existence. Just as atmospheric imbalances cause hurricanes, I submit that imperialism, subjugation and subsequent colonization was inevitable. We should focus on addressing the remnants of its consequences instead of whining about what happened then and how.

This is so true. Yet for the most part, we accept the charge, and the shame of it, as though we invented slavery right here in the USA. Not only that, we seem to accept that we still practice it! Our "public education" seems to want to confirm it, as it does so many fallacies.

To most of us, history is a record of the past, derived from the experiences of those who lived it, or researched the evidence of it. To Liberals there is only 'Their Truth' and everyone else's lies. Evidence and especially tradition, be damned!!

For the race hustlers and the perpetually offended and those that need an excuse as to why their lives are not good as white people's, an excuse is needed. An excuse, not a reason.

Its hard for modern educated and egalitarian-minded people today to understand how much of human civilization was influenced by the idea of caste. It appeared to most that the natural order of society was stratified into the warriors, priests, merchants/farmers/craftsmen, and menial laborors. This was especially true before the advent of mechanical devices that emerged from the industrial revolution. Human labor was a necessity like electricity is today and people with power created systems to exploit it at the lowest possible cost. The Roman Empire found that it was more efficient to enslave the people of conquered states rather than just kill them and considered themselves morallly superior to their barbarian enemies. Caste is still an important influence in Hindu, Chinese, and Japanese cultures and lingers to this day in conservative European cultures as well. It was the philosophy of Locke, Hobbes, and Kant that rejected the notion of a natural caste in favor of equality of all men despite their birth status. This is why America had to eventually reject slavery despite the influence of caste beliefs in our early culture especially in the Southern colonies.

According to the excellent book I'm currently reading (To Rule The Waves; How The British Navy Shaped The Modern World, by Arthur Herman) Arab traders, African tribal chieftains, Portuguese and Spanish merchants were definitely more vested in slavery than British or American Anglo-Saxons. Britain was involved and initially capitalized on the detestable trade, but forces within the British Parliament and House of Commons strongly opposed slavery and British merchants began turning to commodities like sugar and rum that were just as lucrative, without the moral baggage. By the late 1700s to early 1800s the Royal Navy intercepted slave trading ships, attacked slave trading strongholds throughout the Caribbean and Mediterranean and it was successful in stopping the practice. The Royal Navy also wiped out rogue piracy in the Caribbean, which was interfering with British free trade throughout the newly independent U.S. According to the book the last slave trading auction house (in Havana, Cuba) was permanently shut down in 1869. So blame the Arabs, African chiefs, Portuguese, French, Dutch and Spanish for expanding slavery.

Thank you, Mr Bovee, for your rigorous “re-interpretation” of the history of slavery in our country and I’m wondering if I could trouble you to turn your formidable talents to “re-interpret” the historical injustice known as Margaret Sanger.

Does this mean we can expect reparations from those African nations that were at the heart of the slavery business? These are inconvenient facts that the left will not want amplified, it would ruin their narrative.

As far as I know, our constitutional system of a Republic, of Laws not of men, a system created with the goal of justice for all, where equal opportunity was the ideal, and with the underlying understanding that human beings are fallible, imperfect, and a system which allows for the greatest number of people to aspire to a better life and prosperity, and the opportunity to make amendments to the Constitution and write laws in order to strive for that "more perfect union." Let these liars, and that is what they are who promote this distorted and fallacious "historical" construct, ought to be compelled to demonstrate a better history of any nation or political system.