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Re: Theos-World White slaves, black slaveowners

Jan 20, 2005 07:21 AM
by Bart Lidofsky


kpauljohnson wrote:
The Lost German Slave Girl is a new book about a controversial case from 19th century New Orleans of a woman who claimed to be a German immigrant enslaved under false pretenses. That was extremely rare, but free black slaveowners were not. Nothing is as simple as soundbite versions of history make it seem.
If you include temporary slaves (which were still chattel that could be bought and sold), there were quite a few white slaves. But what you said in the last sentence is the point I'm trying to make. Unfortunately, part of the pseudo-postmodernist thinking that has been infecting the Western World is that you don't need any knowledge of a subject to be an expert.

Bart





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