The Truth About Slavery: Past, Present and Future [Remastered]

Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux uncovers the obscured and barbaric history of Slavery to unearth important lessons that can and will shape the future. What is the truth about slavery?  Sources: https://fdrurl.com/slavery  Originally released February 19, 2014.  0:00:00 Slavery’s Hidden History 0:01:05 Ancient Slavery Worldwide 0:03:13 Slaves in Colonial America 0:05:42 Myths About Slavery 0:08:33 The Eastern Slave Trade 0:12:00 Europe Joins the Trade 0:13:40 Slave Destinations 0:14:38 Wilberforce and Abolition 0:16:47 The Eastward Slave Trade 0:20:49 Slavery and State Power 0:24:34 Manumission Blocked 0:26:21 Irish Slavery 0:31:31 Atlantic Versus Saharan 0:33:04 State-Created Slavery 0:34:41 Defining Slavery 0:35:47 Race and Power  My 10v1 debate in Vegas is coming up on November 16! Check out Digital Social Hour on YouTube for the livestream links: https://youtube.com/@DigitalSocialHour.  Support philosophy! https://freedomain.com/donate/  GET FREEDOMAIN MERCH! https://shop.freedomain.com/  SUBSCRIBE TO ME ON X! https://x.com/StefanMolyneux  Follow me on Youtube! https://www.youtube.com/@freedomain1  GET MY NEW BOOK 'PEACEFUL PARENTING', THE INTERACTIVE PEACEFUL PARENTING AI, AND THE FULL AUDIOBOOK! https://peacefulparenting.com/  Join the PREMIUM philosophy community on the web for free!  Subscribers get 12 HOURS on the "Truth About the French Revolution," multiple interactive multi-lingual philosophy AIs trained on thousands of hours of my material - as well as AIs for Real-Time Relationships, Bitcoin, Peaceful Parenting, and Call-In Shows!  You also receive private livestreams, HUNDREDS of exclusive premium shows, early release podcasts, the 22 Part History of Philosophers series and much more!  See you soon! https://freedomain.locals.com/support/promo/FREEDOMAIN2026

Transcript

00:27Hi everybody, it's Stefan Molyne from Freedom Main Radio.

00:29I hope you're doing well.

00:30This is the truth about slavery.

00:33Now, why are we even going to talk about such an ancient and evil institution?

00:38Well, we really don't understand the history of slavery.

00:41We cannot identify its causes, and we therefore have a very tough time fighting its echoes

00:48and remnants in the here and now.

00:50And I would really like to make the case that we can put an end to human slavery once and

00:54for all, but first of all, we have to understand what it is and where it came from.

01:00So let's dive in, shall we?

01:01Thank you so much for your time.

01:05So the history of slavery.

01:08Slavery is an ancient institution common to all cultures throughout history up until

01:12the 19th century and in many places into the 20th and 21st century.

01:18How did you become a slave?

01:19Well, you became an insolvent debtor, ran out of money.

01:21You were sold into slavery by your parents, or you were born to slave parents a lot of

01:25times, or you were captured through kidnapping by slave raiders and pirates, particularly

01:30the Barbary Coast.

01:32Slave dealing was an accepted way of life throughout all of human history, fully established in

01:36all societies, unopposed by religion, in fact, almost always supported by religion.

01:42Christians supported slavery through the Old Testament.

01:45Muslims supported slavery explicitly, and Jews supported slavery, ran a lot of the slave trade.

01:52Now, a lot of the slaves in the world throughout history were white people or Europeans.

01:57In fact, the very word slave comes from Slav, or people of Eastern Europe.

02:04Now, the people from Eastern Europe, the reason why Slav became slave was because for thousands

02:10of years they were subjected to every conqueror who swept through the region, Celts, Greeks,

02:16Romans, barbarians, or the Conans.

02:20The ancient Greeks, who a lot of Westerners get culture, art, music, and philosophy from,

02:25were utterly dependent on slavery.

02:28Plato's Republic, one of the first blueprints for fascistic totalitarianism in the history

02:32of the world, was firmly based on slave labor.

02:35Plato himself said that owning 50 or more slaves represented the possessions of a wealthy man.

02:42Under Roman law, rebellions against your slave owners were kind of discouraged.

02:47So, if your slave owner was ever found killed, all of the slaves, all of you would be put

02:52to death.

02:52There was one Roman slave owner who was found murdered, and 400 of his slaves were put to

02:58death.

02:59So, a little tough to get out of the institution.

03:010 AD, or when Christ was born, half of the population of the Roman Empire were slaves.

03:07Three quarters of the population of Athens were slaves.

03:14Now, not really known very often, up to one-half or more of the arrivals in the American colonies

03:20early on were white slaves.

03:22We'll get into that a little bit later.

03:25They were slaves for life.

03:26Generally, the slavery was hereditary.

03:29Some of them were called indentured servants, so they would sign up or be kidnapped and sold

03:34into bondage, and yet these contracts were generally extended at will.

03:41Nobody was really there to enforce them.

03:43It was rare in America to own slaves.

03:48At the very peak of black slavery in America, only 6% of Southern whites owned slaves.

03:54This, of course, would be the richest 6%, and we'll get into how they used the state to

03:58maintain slavery in a few minutes.

04:00So, if you include all the white people in the north at the very height of slavery, only

04:041.4% of white Americans owned black slaves.

04:08Monstrous, immoral.

04:10That was the truly evil 1% of the day.

04:16Slavery was, of course, indigenous to African and Arab countries before it made its way to

04:21Europe.

04:21Slavery was widely practiced by the tribes of American Indians long before Columbus came

04:26to the New World.

04:27Ethiopia had slavery until 1942, Saudi Arabia until 1962, Peru until 68, India until 76,

04:34and Mauritania until 1980.

04:36Also coming a tad late to the anti-slavery party was the Catholic Church, because certain

04:41passages in the Old Testament sanctioned slavery.

04:44The New Testament didn't give any clear teachings to abolish it.

04:47In 1965, the Second Vatican Council declared without qualification that slavery was an infamy that

04:54dishonored the Creator and was a poison in society.

04:57To be fair, Christians, theologists mostly followed St. Augustine in arguing that slaves

05:02should be treated well, and they did discourage the owning of Christian slaves.

05:09Blacks owned slaves, even in America.

05:12According to the United States Census of 1830, in just the one town of Charleston, South Carolina,

05:16407 black Americans owned slaves themselves.

05:18One study has concluded that 28% of free blacks owned slaves, which is far higher than the free

05:24whites who owned slaves.

05:25It was a lot of a class thing.

05:27I mean, the rich whites would own slaves.

05:29The poor whites hated slavery and hated the institution for a variety of reasons we'll

05:35get into, not least of which was the fact that it drove down the price of labor to the point

05:39where they found it almost impossible to compete.

05:43Now, what are some of the myths?

05:44Well, slavery is often portrayed as a free market phenomenon that had to be ended by governments.

05:51But the reality is there were, in fact, only two countries in the history of the world that

05:55found it necessary to end, or at least attempt to end slavery through civil war.

06:00One was the United States of America, and the other was Haiti.

06:03Of course, the civil war, as we'll get to in the next presentation, the truth about Abraham Lincoln

06:07didn't really have anything to do with slavery, but had more economic motives.

06:13So slavery was a worldwide phenomenon that existed from prehistory until the 18th and 19th centuries

06:18when Western powers, in particular England, ended it as a moral crusade.

06:22Now, why were so many Africans enslaved?

06:24Well, one of the reasons was because the African rulers within Africa, particularly in southern

06:30middle Africa, were endlessly warring against each other, civil wars and so on.

06:34They would capture slaves, they would bring them to the seaports where the Europeans and

06:37the Arabs would pick them up.

06:39Some Arabs went inland.

06:40But you couldn't, as a white person, you couldn't go into Africa.

06:44I mean, the average life expectancy for a white person going to Africa was 11 months.

06:48You just get downed by big and small animals, lions or bugs of various kinds, cholera and so on.

06:56So they had to get caught by the blacks, black rulers, and then they would be shipped off to the

07:02ports

07:02where they'd be picked up by the Arabs and the Europeans.

07:07England, as a moral crusade led by a man will meet in a moment, was ended by attacking the slave

07:13ships,

07:13agitating for the removal of government support for slavery, which is really essential,

07:17and bribing slave owners to release their slaves or buying their property.

07:21Of course, you can't, under common law, retroactive law is not valid.

07:26I can't say something was illegal five years ago and charge you for that.

07:28So what was legitimate property had to be bought, and the British government did spend a lot of blood and

07:33treasure

07:34trying to end slavery.

07:38So, I mean, this is one of the great misconceptions of history.

07:42So Western Europeans were very late to the party.

07:46The Muslim slave trade went on for 1,400 years.

07:49The Christian slave trade went on for a few hundred years.

07:51They were late to the party.

07:54They took very few of the slaves, as we'll see.

07:57They treated their slaves far better than what occurred in the Muslim countries, as we'll also see.

08:02So Europeans ended up fighting against slavery.

08:05Europeans ended slavery.

08:07And therefore, you only ever hear Europeans being blamed for slavery.

08:11This is horribly unjust.

08:12Look, if we want to move the moral standard of mankind further up, which I think we all want to

08:15do,

08:16let's stop attacking everyone who shows the first sign of conscience and better behavior in the world

08:21and only ascribe the blame to them.

08:24Let's not look at European guilt as a mineable resource,

08:28which you can squeeze with state power to produce the diamonds of fiscal transfers.

08:33So let's look at the Eastern trade.

08:35So you know about the Atlantic slave trade, I'm sure.

08:37What is the Eastern slave trade, which is the trans-Saharan slave trade going to the Muslim countries?

08:42So the death toll from 14 centuries of the Muslim slave trade in Africa is estimated at a little over

08:48112 million people.

08:52And remember, this is a time when the world was quite a bit less populated,

08:57which had a lot to do with the Muslim slave trade and its excellence at depopulating and disassembling human beings.

09:02Historian Robert Davis estimates North African Muslim pirates abducted and enslaved more than a million Europeans

09:08between 1530 and 1780.

09:11Half a million black African slaves ended up in North America.

09:18Twice that were kidnapped by North African Muslim pirates.

09:22It's a power differential.

09:24It's not a race thing, fundamentally slavery.

09:28Scraps of history indicate the Muslims enslaved over 150 million African people,

09:33about 50 million from other parts of the world.

09:37That's not a good, and I guess we can hold our breath awaiting for the Islamic culture to start making

09:43its apologies

09:43and for people to press Islamics for reparations.

09:47Now, one thing that's just horrifying and tragic, I mean, all of slavery is horrifying and tragic,

09:52but there are things that stick out even in this horror.

09:56Why does the Arab world not have a large black population?

09:58I mean, they took a lot of black slaves, marched them across the Zahara,

10:01and sold them in the slave auctions in the Eastern, Middle Eastern world.

10:05Why? America's got a big black population.

10:08South America has a big black population as a result of slavery.

10:11Why aren't there any really in the Middle East?

10:13Well, historian Bernard Lewis provides an answer.

10:16Quote, one reason is obviously the high population of eunuchs among black males entering the Islamic lands.

10:21Another is the high death rate and low birth rate among black slaves in North Africa and the Middle East.

10:26In about 1810, Louis Frank observed in Tunisia that most black children died in infancy

10:31and that very few reached the age of manhood.

10:33A British observer in Egypt some 30 years later found conditions even worse.

10:37He said,

10:38I have it estimated that five or six years are sufficient to carry off or kill a generation of slaves,

10:43at the end of which time the whole has to be replenished.

10:50You didn't really want to be a slave going East.

10:52If you had to choose, you'd want to be going West.

10:56North African Muslim pirates raided European coastal towns and villages from all the way down in Sicily,

11:02all the way up to Cornwall, as well as European ships for about 300 years,

11:05enslaved over a million Europeans, including many American seamen.

11:08Some say it's 1.5 million.

11:10Christopher Hitchens points out how many know that perhaps a million and a half Europeans and Americans

11:14were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780.

11:18What are the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by Corsair raiders in a single

11:24night?

11:24It doesn't fit the narrative, right?

11:26The narrative says that it's a race issue.

11:28It's a state and power issue, which I'm going to make the case for.

11:32These ghastly slave raiding practices of the Muslim pirates had a huge effect on particularly coastal regions of Europe.

11:40France and England and Spain lost thousands of ships,

11:42devastated their seaborne trade, retarded the growth of the economy,

11:46long stretches of the coast in Spain and Italy were almost completely abandoned until the 19th century.

11:51The fishing industry was virtually devastated, which, of course, led to starvation throughout certain parts of Western Europe.

12:01Well, Christians did come, tragically, to the party.

12:04Islam dominated the slave trade from the 7th to the 15th century,

12:07but between 1519 and 1815, Europe also joined in the trade in human flesh.

12:13Interestingly enough, it was the European nations who had suffered most at the hands of the Muslim slave raiders

12:18and under centuries of Muslim military occupations, such as Spain and Portugal,

12:22who dominated the European slave trade.

12:25It was the enemies of the Reformation who brought Europe into the slave trade.

12:28The Reformation was a 16th century movement led by Martin Luther,

12:32who tried to get the Bible translated into the vernacular, into the common tongue,

12:36of the people, and gave them copies of the Bible, allowed them to come to their own conclusions,

12:40shattered the unity of Christendom under the Catholic popes and the Catholic Church

12:44into Calvinists, Wingalians, Anabaptists, Lutherans, and so on,

12:49thus provoking a century or two of vicious religious civil war,

12:53resulting in the separation of church and state for the mere survival of European civilization.

12:59So Martin Luther defied Charles V by saying,

13:02my conscience is captive to the word of God, here I stand, I can do no other.

13:08So the Holy Roman Empire, which was in reality neither holy nor Roman nor an empire,

13:14authorized Europe's involvement in the slave trade in 1519.

13:18Britain's involvement in slavery was at first authorized in 1631 by the delightful King Charles I,

13:23who was executed by Parliament, his son Charles II reintroduced it by Royal Charter in 1672.

13:29Popes were very keen on slavery, one pope even rode around in a giant boat,

13:35rode by slaves, so it was not a great bulwark against religion.

13:41The destinations are surprising, because generally you hear about black slavery in America.

13:46According to the slave trade by Hugh Thomas,

13:494 million slaves went to Portuguese-controlled Brazil.

13:52It's over 35% of the Atlantic slave trade.

13:562.5 million to the Spanish nations of South and Central America, which is 22%.

14:00Just under 18% to the British West Indies, mostly Jamaica.

14:0414% of them went to French West Indies, and half a million,

14:084.4% to the Dutch West Indies, and half a million slaves, black slaves generally,

14:13went to North America, 4.4% of the entire slave trade.

14:19I don't see a lot of people trying to give Brazil a hard time,

14:22although Brazil ended slavery in the 1880s, much later.

14:25So here's a chart.

14:27You can just look at this to see where the enslaved Africans were sent from 1500 to 1870.

14:33It's a very small amount that went to British North America.

14:38So how did this end?

14:39Well, William Wilberforce, the least ghetto name in history,

14:44on Sunday, October 28th, he wrote in his diary,

14:46God Almighty has set before me two great objects,

14:50the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of society.

14:54For the rest of his life, he dedicated his life as a member of Parliament

14:57to opposing the slave trade and working for the abolition of slavery

14:59throughout the British Empire.

15:02On February the 22nd, 1807, 20 years after he first began his crusade

15:07in the middle of Britain's war with France,

15:09Wilberforce and his team's labors were rewarded with victory

15:13by an overwhelming 283 votes,

15:164 to 16 against the motion to abolish the slave trade,

15:19was carried in the House of Commons.

15:22In 1809, the British government mobilized its navy

15:26to search suspected slave ships, even foreign vessels on the high seas.

15:29At the height of the British Empire, covered a third of the globe,

15:32the British navy was the undisputed king of the waters.

15:34One of the tragic effects was that when a slave ship would see a British corsair

15:38coming up to it, they would generally kill the slaves

15:40and dump the bodies overboard so they wouldn't be found to be slavers.

15:45In 1810, the British Parliament declared slave trading a felony punishable

15:49by 14 years hard labour.

15:50In 1814, the British representative of the Congress of Vienna

15:54insisted on the abolition of the slave trade being included

15:56in the international treaty.

15:57The treaty was signed by all the European powers on June 9, 1815.

16:02In 1825, Britain passed a law making slave trading punishable by death.

16:08Three days before William Wilberforce died by an act of parliament in 1833,

16:13the British abolished slavery itself,

16:15setting all 700,000 slaves in British overseas territories free.

16:21Wilberforce's lifetime campaign of 59 years was now fully successful.

16:26He said, shortly before he died,

16:28thank God that I've witnessed the day in which England is willing

16:31to give 20 million pounds sterling for the abolition of slavery.

16:36A moral hero of mankind, did you ever hear his name?

16:39Of course not, does not fit the narrative

16:42and does not serve the powers that be, which we will get to.

16:47Now, one of the great tragedies of ending the Atlantic slave trade was,

16:51wasn't like the number of slaves captured in Africa or other places diminished.

16:55They just caught, they took more of the slaves from Africa

16:58and sent them over the Sahara.

17:00Missionary explorer David Livingstone wrote graphic descriptions

17:04of the ravages of the East African slave trade.

17:07He wrote this.

17:08Two of the women had been shot the day before for attempting to untie their thongs.

17:13That would be these arm thongs, not the butt floss bikini thongs.

17:17One woman had her infant's brains knocked out

17:20because she could not carry her load and it.

17:23And a man was dispatched, i.e. killed, with an axe

17:26because he had broken down with fatigue.

17:29Those taken out of the country are but a very small section of the sufferers.

17:32We never realized the atrocious nature of the traffic

17:34until we saw it at the Fountainhead.

17:37There, truly, Satan has his seat.

17:41Besides those actually captured, thousands are killed

17:44and die of their wounds in famine.

17:46Driven from their villages by the internecine war

17:48waged for slaves with their own clansmen and neighbors,

17:52slain by the lust of gain which is stimulated,

17:54be it remembered always,

17:55by the slave purchases of Cuba and elsewhere.

18:01The trans-Sahara slave trade was truly appalling.

18:07So boys from about 8 to 12, if they were captured, would be castrated.

18:12This would be penis and testicles

18:14because Arabs had superstitions about the sexual prowess of blacks

18:19and also castrated boys were more docile.

18:26So they would castrate the boys.

18:28The survival rate was very low.

18:31They went to the homes of wealthy Arab landlords

18:33and they force-marched young women across endless miles of scorching sand

18:36in the Sahara Desert to become sex concubines.

18:39Most of the women died in transit.

18:42So castration, murderous castration,

18:46obviously without anesthetic or any other kind of medical procedures

18:48or protection against infection and the force-marching of women across the desert

18:54for the rape rooms of the eastern lands was unbelievably brutal

18:59and far worse statistically than what happened in the Atlantic slave trade.

19:07So eunuchs, again, the penises and scrotum of 8 to 12-year-old African boys.

19:11The survival rate from this process of castration range from 1 in 10 to 1 in 30.

19:18And so it's impossible to estimate hundreds of thousands,

19:22probably millions of young boys bled to death during this ghastly procedure.

19:30And in diminishing or eliminating the Atlantic slave trade,

19:34more boys went that direction rather than to the relatively safer lands

19:38in North and South America.

19:44So the reason why I say if you're going to be captured,

19:48then you want to go west, not east,

19:50is that if you look at this graph here, this is 1650 to 1750.

19:58The rise of the U.S. slave population is enormous.

20:03When you are a woman in the Muslim countries,

20:05if you had a baby, as a result, of course, of being raped in these concubines,

20:10if you had a baby, the baby would be murdered, generally.

20:14So the men were castrated and the women's babies were murdered,

20:17which is why there aren't a lot of blacks in Islamic countries these days,

20:19despite such a rampant history of 14 centuries of slavery.

20:25But early you can see that the U.S. slave population is increasing.

20:28Slaves could marry and were encouraged to have children and so on.

20:34And although the U.S. Congress outlawed the African slave trade in 1808,

20:37the domestic trade flourished.

20:38Slave population in the U.S. nearly tripled over the next 50 years.

20:42It doesn't make slavery moral, of course,

20:44a completely evil institution,

20:45but it makes it much more survivable in the Americas.

20:50Now, the confusion of slavery with the free market is truly tragic,

20:56because then we think that it was free trade that produced slavery,

20:59and it required 600,000-odd dead Americans in the Civil War to end it.

21:06This, of course, is not the case.

21:08Generally, all governments had to do was stop catching the slaves

21:11and returning them to their masters.

21:13I mean, you think about it.

21:13You've got a plantation, you've got a bunch of slaves.

21:16They just walk off.

21:17How are you going to catch them?

21:18Where are you going to find them?

21:19You can't possibly do that.

21:21The government has to go and catch them for you,

21:23the taxes and labor of which are paid generally by others.

21:27So there are two state statutes that reduced the private cost of slavery.

21:32They were largely ignored,

21:34and this made slavery look a lot more efficient.

21:37We'll get into them.

21:38So it's slave patrols and bans on the freeing of slaves or a manumission,

21:42which we will get to in a little bit more detail.

21:44It's worth understanding just so we can really get

21:47how little slavery was economically efficient.

21:51And, of course, those who had bought slaves

21:53tended to resist the introduction of labor-saving devices,

21:57and this prevented industrialization.

21:59This prevented farm machinery from coming into being.

22:02And, of course, the more productive slaves were,

22:04to the degree that they were productive,

22:05simply meant that you had to pay more to buy them,

22:07and therefore eliminating a lot of the gains.

22:11So, also, states prevented immigration of free blacks,

22:15and if you were freed through some miracle,

22:17you had to leave the state,

22:19you restricted movements and rights and so on,

22:21which meant that, basically,

22:22most of the blacks in a given state would be slaves,

22:24which made them a lot easier to identify and to capture.

22:28So, forced slave patrols.

22:30So, the patrol statutes in the South required all white males

22:34to participate in slave patrol duty.

22:36So, the counties established these regular patrols.

22:39The counties placed responsibility for organizing these patrols

22:41on local judges and constables,

22:44and they appointed these patrol leaders that rotated in and out,

22:49responsible for organizing and reporting

22:51on the activities of their patrols.

22:52Now, if you didn't participate in these patrols

22:55or carry out organizing responsibilities,

22:56you got a series of escalating fines,

22:58which would end up with you going to debt as prison

23:01and possibly being sold off as a slave.

23:04So, to prevent slaves from escaping,

23:06these drafted, poor whites

23:10were responsible for patrolling the rolls at night

23:12and monitoring the movement of blacks,

23:13checking their passes,

23:14inspecting slave residences.

23:17Pretty scary for the blacks.

23:18A lot of these guys weren't big fans of this whole thing

23:21and took it out on the blacks,

23:23which was wretched and tragic.

23:25And you didn't even get paid.

23:27All you could get paid was

23:28maybe you get a little reward

23:29if you catch a runaway slave.

23:33So, this is a way in which,

23:35remember, it's the rich who use the power of the state

23:38to screw the middle class and the poor.

23:40I mean, we see this right now going on

23:41with the bank bailouts.

23:43I mean, how much money did you get

23:44and how much money did you have to pay

23:45if you're not in the 1%,

23:46at the top of the financial food chain,

23:49you don't get crap.

23:50Well, you get crap and debt.

23:53And, you know, can we really be said

23:55to have ended forced indentature

23:57when children are born

23:58hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt

24:00because of the spending of the state to buy votes?

24:03I would argue no.

24:07So, it was tragic.

24:08The costs of capturing,

24:10of patrolling for and capturing the slaves

24:12were born by the people

24:14who were forced to do it,

24:15not the people who owned the slaves.

24:19So, this is really important.

24:21If the trend of freeing slaves

24:23had been allowed to continue,

24:25slavery would have ended

24:26before the Civil War peacefully.

24:29It's a strong claim to make.

24:30Let me give you the numbers behind it.

24:33So,

24:35you couldn't free your slaves.

24:37Well, originally you could,

24:38but too many slaves were being freed,

24:39which made it harder to catch the ones who ran away.

24:42So, you couldn't buy your freedom anymore,

24:44you couldn't be granted freedom,

24:46and you couldn't be given your freedom

24:49even in a last will and testament.

24:51And,

24:52therefore, there was not much freeing

24:54or manumission of slaves.

24:55Not because people didn't want to do it,

24:56but because it became illegal.

25:00So,

25:02if the government had not

25:05banned the freeing of slaves,

25:07more slaves would have been freed,

25:08there would have been more competition for labor,

25:10labor would have begun to displace slavery

25:13in terms of efficiency and so on,

25:15and

25:17more slaves would then have been freed.

25:20So,

25:21as states enacted statues

25:22against manumission and immigration

25:24and required slave patrols,

25:26the growth of the free black population decreased,

25:27and it fell below the rate of growth

25:29in the slave population

25:30and was reduced to a trickle

25:31in the decade prior to the Civil War.

25:33However,

25:35if the free black population

25:37in the South Atlantic states

25:38had grown at the same rate

25:39between 1800 and 1860

25:41as it did between 1790 and 1800,

25:43every slave in the South Atlantic states

25:45would have been freed twice.

25:46twice.

25:47By 1860,

25:48the equivalent of virtually

25:49every slave in the country.

25:51So,

25:51they were being freed,

25:52the government stepped in and stopped it

25:54to serve the interests

25:55of the wealthy plantation owners,

25:57the couple of percent

25:58of people who had the ear

26:00of the government

26:01as they do now

26:02and use it to shaft everyone else.

26:04But even if

26:05you did the slower rate of growth

26:08between 1790 and 1810,

26:11which was 88% growth

26:13in freeing of slaves,

26:14every slave in the region

26:15would have been freed

26:16only 1.5 times,

26:18which I guess is

26:18still pretty good.

26:21Let's talk a little bit

26:22about white slavery.

26:24The Irish slave trade.

26:26Oh,

26:26my lovely ancestors

26:28from Ireland

26:29who came across

26:29with William the Conqueror

26:31in 1066,

26:32I'm sure were very,

26:33very effective

26:34at slaughtering

26:35and covering themselves

26:36with blue and red

26:38of disassembled

26:39local Britons.

26:40Very good

26:41ancient murderers,

26:42my relatives,

26:43which are my ancestors,

26:44which meant that

26:44they got lots of land

26:46as a result

26:47for being very good

26:48at killing people,

26:48which is really

26:49the foundation

26:49of the aristocracy.

26:51All money

26:51with royalty on it

26:52is blood money.

26:55And the Irish slave trade

26:57began when James II

26:58sold 30,000 Irish prisoners

26:59as slaves

27:00to the New World.

27:01His proclamation

27:01of 1625

27:03required Irish

27:04political prisoners

27:05to be sent overseas

27:06and sold

27:06to English settlers

27:08in the West Indies.

27:09By the mid-1600s,

27:10the Irish

27:10were the main slaves

27:11sold to Antigua

27:12and Montserrat.

27:13At that time,

27:1470% of the total population

27:16of Montserrat

27:16were Irish slaves.

27:19Now, I mean,

27:20I'm half Irish

27:21and half German,

27:23and while the German part

27:24of me wants to invade Poland,

27:26the Irish part of me,

27:27when exposed to sunlight,

27:28bursts into fiery flames

27:30and freckles.

27:31So not exactly

27:32the blackest

27:33of the black slaves

27:34in the universe.

27:36So Ireland

27:37quickly became

27:38the biggest source

27:39of human livestock

27:39for English merchants.

27:41The majority

27:41of the early slaves

27:42to the New World

27:42were actually whites.

27:45In the 1600s,

27:46white slaves

27:47in America

27:48outnumbered

27:48the black slaves.

27:50So Reverend Augie,

27:52who lived in the South

27:53for 11 years,

27:53had both black

27:54and white congregations

27:55told of preaching

27:55to slaves,

27:56some with red hair

27:57and blue eyes,

27:58a third of whom

27:59were just as white

27:59as he was.

28:00Dr. Alexander Milton Ross

28:02attended a slave auction

28:04in New Orleans

28:04where many of the slaves

28:05were much whiter

28:06than the white people

28:06who were buying them.

28:08In Lexington, Kentucky,

28:09Reverend Calvin Fairbank,

28:10well, I guess that's

28:12the least hood name

28:12you'll find,

28:13described a woman

28:14who was going to be sold

28:15at slave auction

28:15as one of the most

28:16beautiful and exquisite

28:17young girls

28:18one could expect to find

28:18in freedom or slavery

28:19being only 164th African.

28:25In 1855,

28:26Frederick Law Olmsted,

28:28the landscape architect

28:29who designed

28:29New York Central Park,

28:30was in Alabama

28:31on a pleasure trip

28:32and saw a barred

28:33bales of cotton

28:33being thrown

28:34from a considerable height

28:35into a cargo ship's hold.

28:36The men tossing

28:37the bales down

28:39somewhat recklessly

28:40into the hold

28:40were Negroes.

28:41The men in the hold

28:42were Irish.

28:43He said,

28:44what's going on?

28:45Why is it this way?

28:46Oh, said the worker,

28:47the negros are worth

28:48too much to be risked here.

28:49If the paddies

28:50are knocked overboard

28:50to get their backs broke,

28:52nobody loses anything.

28:55The economics

28:55of Irish slavery

28:57were pretty tragic.

28:58From 1641 to 1652,

29:01over 500,000 Irish

29:02were killed

29:03by the English

29:03and another 300,000

29:04were sold

29:05as slaves.

29:07You see,

29:07half a million blacks

29:08get to North America,

29:10300,000 whites

29:11sold as slaves

29:12in a 10-year period.

29:14Ireland's population

29:15fell from about

29:161,500 to 600,000

29:17in one single decade.

29:20This would be

29:20about the equivalent

29:21of America losing

29:22100 million people.

29:24Families were ripped apart.

29:26The British

29:26did not even allow

29:27Irish dads

29:27to take their wives

29:28and children.

29:29Across the Atlantic,

29:30this led to

29:31a helpless population

29:32of homeless women

29:32and children.

29:33What would the English

29:35do with those

29:36helpless women

29:36and children?

29:37Oh, let's auction

29:39them off as well

29:40as additional slaves.

29:42Oh, the British.

29:44During the 1650s,

29:46over 100,000

29:47Irish children

29:47between the ages

29:48of 10 and 14

29:48were taken from

29:49their parents

29:49and sold as slaves

29:50in the West Indies.

29:52Virginia and New England

29:53in this decade,

29:5452,000 Irish,

29:55mostly women and children

29:56were sold to

29:56the Barbados

29:57and Virginia,

29:58long before the

29:59SPF 9 million

30:00that you need

30:00if you're an Irish person

30:01out in the sun.

30:02Another 30,000

30:04Irish men and women

30:05were also transported

30:05and sold

30:06to the highest bidder.

30:07In 1656,

30:09Cromwell ordered

30:09that 2,000 Irish children

30:10be taken to Jamaica

30:11and sold as slaves

30:12to English settlers.

30:13The British

30:14would routinely

30:14scoop up orphans

30:16and send them

30:17across as slaves.

30:18They would also

30:19troll brothels,

30:20rip the women

30:21out of the brothels

30:21and send them over

30:22as breeders

30:23to the New World.

30:26So African slaves

30:27were very expensive.

30:27During the late 1600s,

30:2950 pounds sterling,

30:30Irish slaves came

30:30a lot cheaper,

30:31no more than

30:31five pounds sterling.

30:33And this is,

30:34you know,

30:34partly because

30:35you could just grab them.

30:37You didn't have to pay

30:37the African warlords

30:38for the slaves

30:39and they were cheaper

30:40and easier to transport.

30:42If a plant

30:42are whipped or branded

30:43or beat an Irish slave

30:44to death,

30:44it was never a crime.

30:45A death would be

30:46a monetary setback

30:47but much cheaper

30:47than killing

30:48a more expensive African.

30:50And the English masters

30:51quickly began

30:52breeding the Irish women

30:53for own personal pressure

30:54and for greater profit.

30:56Children of the slaves

30:57were themselves slaves

30:58which increased

30:58the size

30:59of the merchant's

31:00workforce.

31:02Even if an Irish woman

31:03somehow obtained

31:04her freedom,

31:04her children would still

31:06be born as slaves

31:07to the master.

31:08So they're not going

31:09to go and abandon

31:10their kids.

31:10They just generally

31:11hung around

31:11to take care of them.

31:13England continued

31:14to ship tens of thousands

31:15of Irish slaves

31:16from more than a century.

31:16Records state

31:17that after the 1798

31:19Irish rebellion,

31:20why would they rebel?

31:21Such a lovely environment.

31:23Thousands of Irish slaves

31:24were sold

31:24to both America

31:25and Australia.

31:25they were horrible abuses

31:27of both African

31:27and Irish captives.

31:31So,

31:32white slaves,

31:35Middle Eastern slaves,

31:36African slaves,

31:37it was all over the world

31:39and there are still

31:40some significant differences

31:41to be noted

31:42between the Atlantic slave trade

31:44and the Trans-Saharan slave trade.

31:47So, two out of three slaves

31:48shipped across the Atlantic

31:49were men

31:50but two women

31:52for every man

31:53were enslaved

31:53by the Muslims,

31:54again for sexual concubinage

31:57or institutional rape.

31:58The mortality rate

31:59for slaves being transported

32:00across the Atlantic

32:01was as high as 10%

32:02but the percentage

32:04of slaves dying

32:05in transit

32:06on the Trans-Saharan

32:07East African slave trade

32:08was between 80%

32:09and 90%

32:09which is why

32:10I say if you're going

32:11to get caught

32:12you want to go

32:12east,

32:13not west.

32:15So,

32:16almost all the slaves

32:16shipped across

32:18the Atlantic

32:18were for agricultural work.

32:20The ones that went east

32:21were for sexual exploitation.

32:24in harems

32:25and for military service.

32:29So,

32:30many children

32:30were born to slaves

32:31in the Americas

32:31so your marriage

32:32wasn't legally recognized

32:33but you could get married

32:34and have kids,

32:35millions of their descendants

32:36are citizens in Brazil

32:37and the USA

32:37but there are very few descendants

32:40of the slaves

32:41that ended up

32:41in the Middle East.

32:43One of the great

32:45genocidal,

32:45murderous,

32:46barbaric,

32:47vicious tragedies

32:48of human history

32:49generally unacknowledged.

32:52So,

32:53again,

32:53as we mentioned

32:53you get married

32:55in the Americas

32:56in North and South America

32:57in the Middle East

32:58you were generally

32:59castrated as a male

33:00and your babies

33:01were murdered

33:01if you were female.

33:04So,

33:05the Atlantic slave trade

33:06was not the result

33:07of market forces.

33:09It was not a free market.

33:11It was developed

33:11under the power of the state.

33:13We've already talked about

33:13how the state

33:14used the power of law

33:15to socialize

33:17or to offset the cost

33:18of capturing

33:19and returning slaves

33:22and did not allow

33:23slave owners

33:24to free their slaves.

33:26So,

33:26of course,

33:27slavery existed

33:27in the tribal

33:28African societies

33:29which was the source

33:30of slaves.

33:31Europeans could not

33:32go into Africa

33:33and catch slaves.

33:34They would just

33:34catch disease

33:34and die.

33:36This was not

33:36a market force

33:37that was going on.

33:38It was not free trade

33:39and private ownership

33:40that was going on

33:41in the tribal

33:41African societies.

33:43The slave trade

33:44as a whole

33:45was not founded

33:45by private firms.

33:46It was established

33:47by the colonial powers

33:48which instituted monopolies

33:50to exploit

33:51the indigenous population.

33:54So,

33:54the Dutch West India Company

33:56was chartered in 1621.

33:57The Royal Company

33:58of Adventurers

33:58for the Importation

33:59of Negroes

34:00was formed in 1662.

34:02These were not

34:03private corporations

34:04or companies

34:05of any kind.

34:05They were governmental

34:06military structures

34:07which gave a monopoly

34:09on the slave trade,

34:10subsidized it

34:12in return

34:13for great profits.

34:14Think of it

34:14as the military-industrial

34:15complex of its time.

34:17So,

34:18they were very efficient

34:19in generating slaves

34:20revenues

34:20and domestic influence.

34:22So,

34:22there is a statement

34:23that said,

34:24Negroes therefore

34:24were stolen in Africa

34:25to work land

34:26stolen from the Indians

34:27but this was always

34:29and forever

34:29a government involvement.

34:33When governments

34:33gave up the practice

34:34of catching

34:35and returning slaves,

34:38slavery collapsed.

34:40So,

34:49let's understand

34:50what slavery is.

34:53Slavery is

34:54the 100% ownership

34:56of the products

34:57of somebody's labor

34:58in a non-voluntary,

34:59right?

35:00So,

35:00a non-voluntary environment.

35:01So,

35:01if I go to work

35:02at a restaurant,

35:02they'll take some portion

35:03of my salary,

35:04they built the restaurant,

35:05they do the advertising,

35:06they heat it,

35:06but I take some portion

35:08of the profits

35:09for my salary.

35:11It's voluntary.

35:12When you force someone

35:14to hand over 100%

35:16of their earnings,

35:17that is pure slavery.

35:19What percentage

35:20of your earnings

35:20are forced over

35:21at the hands of the states?

35:22We really haven't

35:23fundamentally outgrown it

35:25as an institution.

35:26We've become

35:26free-range

35:27serfs or slaves.

35:28We can choose

35:29our own occupations

35:30but we must still

35:31remit

35:31property taxes

35:32and income taxes

35:33and all other forms

35:34of taxation

35:34to the state

35:35in order to secure

35:36our freedom

35:37and

35:39we really haven't

35:40understood

35:41what slavery was

35:42and where it came from.

35:43We've been told

35:45to turn it into

35:46two things

35:47that are fundamentally

35:47incorrect.

35:48One is

35:49it's become

35:50a race issue

35:51for obvious

35:53financial gain reasons

35:54and reasons

35:55of the profitability

35:56of victimization

35:57in the face

35:57of a relatively

35:58empathetic culture.

35:59So,

36:00it's become

36:01a race issue

36:01when it fundamentally

36:02wasn't.

36:03It was a power

36:03issue

36:04when the British

36:05could get away

36:05with enslaving

36:06the whites

36:06they got away

36:06with enslaving

36:07the whites

36:07when they could

36:08get away

36:08with enslaving

36:08the Africans

36:09they enslaved

36:09the Africans

36:10when the Muslims

36:11could get away

36:11with enslaving

36:12everyone

36:12they enslaved

36:13everyone.

36:14When the Jews

36:15could profit

36:15from their

36:16participation

36:17in the slave

36:17trade

36:18they did

36:19and could.

36:20So,

36:20it is not

36:21a race issue

36:22at all

36:23fundamentally.

36:24We've been told

36:24to make it a race

36:25issue so that

36:26we fight amongst

36:26ourselves

36:27rather than

36:27looking at

36:28the real source

36:29of the problem

36:29of slavery

36:30past,

36:30present and future

36:31which is the

36:31powers that be

36:32who indoctrinate

36:33us to fight

36:33with each other

36:34rather than

36:34look at the

36:35genuine power

36:35structures in the

36:36world

36:36which are around

36:37the viciousness

36:38and violence

36:38and exploitation

36:40of state power

36:41at the behest

36:43of the financial

36:44powers

36:44who lend to the

36:45state

36:45so the state

36:46can bribe us

36:47with goodies

36:47and have our

36:48children pay off

36:48those goodies.

36:50So,

36:50we've made

36:51the mistake

36:51of thinking

36:52that slavery

36:53is foundationally

36:54about race

36:54so that we can

36:55fight each other

36:56as races

36:57rather than

36:57recognize that

36:58we are brothers

36:59and sisters

36:59in the tax

37:00farms

37:01called countries

37:02run by

37:02governments

37:04and we've also

37:05thought that it

37:05has something to

37:06do with the

37:06free market

37:07so we think

37:08that our

37:09enemies are

37:09racial

37:09and our

37:10enemy

37:10is the

37:11free market

37:11well

37:12it is not

37:13a race-based

37:13institution

37:14and it was

37:14the complete

37:15opposite

37:15of the

37:16free market

37:16it was a

37:17central

37:17fascistically

37:17controlled

37:19pseudo market

37:20it's called

37:20crapitalism

37:20crony capitalism

37:21where you use

37:22the power

37:22of the state

37:23to benefit

37:23financial interests

37:25that's not

37:25the free market

37:25at all

37:26forcing people

37:27to go and

37:27catch slaves

37:28that's not

37:28the free market

37:29forcing people

37:30to not do

37:31what they want

37:32with their own

37:32property

37:33if slaves

37:33are property

37:34you should be

37:34able to set

37:34them free

37:35right

37:35but banning

37:37people from

37:37setting their

37:38slaves free

37:38is not

37:39treating

37:40slaves even

37:41as property

37:42as it should

37:43have been at

37:44the time

37:44under the law

37:46because that

37:47would have been

37:47a way of

37:48peacefully ending

37:49slavery

37:50by making

37:51slavery

37:52diminish

37:52out of the

37:53guilty generosity

37:54of the slave

37:55owners

37:55particularly on

37:56their deathbeds

37:57when they would

37:57set slaves free

37:59so it is

38:00completely wretched

38:00for us to

38:01misunderstand

38:02what slavery

38:03was

38:03who the cause

38:04was

38:04financial interests

38:07using the power

38:08of the state

38:08to exploit

38:09the resources

38:10now

38:10the resources

38:12are money

38:12the resources

38:13are the environment

38:14in the past

38:14the resources

38:15included

38:15human beings

38:17but the idea

38:18that one race

38:19is guilty

38:20of slavery

38:21and owes reparations

38:22is like saying

38:23you and I

38:24owe reparations

38:25for the bailouts

38:27that were handed

38:27to the bankers

38:28to the banksters

38:29of course not

38:30we didn't like them

38:31those bailouts

38:32we would have resisted

38:33them if we could

38:34but the money

38:34is taken from us

38:35at gunpoint

38:35well

38:36the facilitation

38:38of slavery

38:40the violent

38:42power of the state

38:43which made slavery

38:44possible

38:44and sustained

38:45its continuance

38:46was imposed

38:47upon both whites

38:48and blacks

38:49and mulattoes

38:50and Chinese

38:51and Irish

38:52and you name it

38:53it was imposed

38:54upon them

38:54against their will

38:55just as

38:57the national debt

38:57is imposed

38:58upon your children

38:59against their will

39:00just as

39:01bank bailouts

39:01are imposed

39:02on you

39:02against your will

39:05all we should do

39:07is band together

39:08to recognize

39:10the great owners

39:11of mankind

39:12are the political

39:13and financial

39:14and military powers

39:15of the world

39:17when we see that

39:19when we see

39:21the slavery

39:22in a diminished

39:23way

39:23that continues

39:26well then

39:27we have a chance

39:28at real freedom

39:33the폰

39:33of the world

39:33and when we see

39:34therés

39:34of the war

39:34of the gold

39:34and now

39:34that is

39:34what we see

39:34is

39:34the

39:34that is

39:34the

39:54leader

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