[ExI] History of Slavery

[Olga Bourlin]

From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:37 PM

> As explained in the chapter on slavery in Thomas Sowell's
> "White Liberals and Black Rednecks", England alone
> deserves the lion's share of the credit for stopping it,
> with the United States in second place. Non-western
> nations need not apply. At significant expense over more
> than a century, Great Britain patrolled the slave-trading
> areas of the world, finally at long last successfully
> sweeping it from the seas.

Thomas Sowell doesn't talk much about white privilege (not just in the U.S.,
but around the world) because in his role as a Latter-Day Tom (hey, the name
even fits) he cannot afford to. (And don't tell me white privilege doesn't
exist, into today - big time.)

IMO one needs to get a fuller perspective on this issue, Lee - not just from
the white perspective, but from the black perspective (and not just dealing
with slavery per se, but its after effects).  There are many many books out
there that will give you a snootful, like this one called ...

http://www.amazon.com/Toms-Coons-Mulattoes-Mammies-Bucks/dp/082641267X

Olga