If the idea of violence diminishing the freedom and autonomy of individuals is concerning to you, it is essential to strive for a higher goal. Recognize that the experiences and circumstances of white and black individuals in America are shaped by the atrocities of past societies and the brutality of America’s advancement, often justified by a false sense of divine authority. By acknowledging this, one will be moved to act and help those subjected to enslavement.
These images were featured in Harper’s Weekly magazine and distributed as cartes de visites, and were selected by Union military and abolitionist groups for their non-threatening white appearance. The subjects portrayed, Rosa Downs, Fannie Lawrence, Rebecca Huger, and Charley Taylor, were all children of white enslavers and enslaved black individuals. They, along with many others in similar situations, needed support and assistance.
OF COURSE THE BLACKS WON’T SHARE THIS, THEY WOULD NEVER ADMIT THERE WERE WHITE SLAVES, JUST LIKE THEY’D NEVER ADMIT THERE WERE BLACK SLAVE OWNERS THAT TREATED THEIR SLAVES HORRIBLY! AND WHEN ARE BLACK PEOPLE GOING TO QUIT BLAMING WHITE PEOPLE FOR SLAVERY? THEY SHOULD BE THANKING THE WHITE PEOPLE THEY ARE HERE AND NOT BACK IN AFRICA RUNNING BAREFOOT IN THE BUSH AFTER A WARTHOG SO THEY COULD HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE GROCERY WITH THEIR FOOD STAMPS? IF IT WASN’T FOR THE WHITE SHIP CAPTAINS BUYING SLAVES FROM THE WARLORDS IN AFRICA AND BRINGING THEM TO THE NEW WORLD MOST OF THE BLACKS HERE NOW WOULD STILL BE IN AFRICA, IF THEY WOULD EVEN BE ALIVE WITH THE MORTALITY RATES THE WAY THEY WERE AND ARE. AND THEY’D STILL BE SLAVES AS THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE BROUGHT HERE! WHITE PEOPLE DIDN’T START SLAVERY IN AFRICA, BLACKS WERE ENSLAVED BY THEIR OWN PEOPLE. THEY WERE CAPTURED BY NEIGHBORING TRIBAL WARLORDS, ENSLAVED, WORKED, SOLD TO OTHER TRIBES, WORKED, RAPED, BEATEN, KILLED, THEY WERE SLAVES,AND HAD NO CHANCE OF FREEDOM. AND THEY WERE IGNORANT, NO WRITTEN LANGUAGE, LIVED IN HUTS, AND DIDN’T LIVE LONG LIVES. BLACKS NEED TO THINK LONG AND HARD ON HOW GOOD THEY HAVE IT SINCE THEIR ANCESTORS WERE LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BROUGHT TO THE NEW WORLD INSTEAD OF BEING A SLAVE IN AFRICA. THE UNITED STATES WOULD PROBABLY BE ABOUT 2 PERCENT BLACK HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR SLAVERY. BLACKS NEED TO MOVE ON, GET OVER IT!