Slavery wasn’t just bad. It was worse. Far worse than you think. Worse than you were taught. Worse than museums dare to show. Worse.
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Yet we still venerate them by carving their faces onto the granite face of stolen, sacred Lakota land. One of whom was a pedophile who raped his slave girls.
aug 20, 2025, 9:51 am • 0 0 • view
Torture, murder, rape… It was worse…
aug 19, 2025, 11:53 pm • 7 1 • view
trump and trump supporters are monsters
aug 20, 2025, 12:39 am • 0 0 • view
I don't think we can even fathom the evil.
aug 20, 2025, 2:54 am • 0 0 • view
Rapes, Murders, Tortures, pedophilia... they tend not to talk about..
aug 20, 2025, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
Worse than you can imagine. Worse than inserting glass tubes up your penis hole and smashing it with a hammer. Waaaaay worse.
aug 20, 2025, 4:55 am • 2 0 • view
People cannot imagine, have no idea, have no clue because our true history is not taught. Books that tell the history of slavery are banned in several states because the fascists who find the truth about slavery too violent, the racism too blatant for tender ears.
aug 21, 2025, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
True!
aug 19, 2025, 11:24 pm • 2 0 • view
Nobody deserves to be enslaved. Everyone is born free and must stay that way. Bet Trump’s got other plans though.
aug 20, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 19, 2025, 11:26 pm • 29 4 • view
To me everyone is equal, no race or gender is better, its working together yo eliminate this, will destroy most racism, genderism, leaving humans that get along. Internal conflicts relates to external conflicts. Be kind to one and another
aug 20, 2025, 1:51 am • 2 0 • view
The person who’s sending others into slavery are actually doomed themselves into the Hell they provide to others! Funny how Karma works.
aug 19, 2025, 11:29 pm • 11 1 • view
Abstaining from punishing wrongdoers now in favor of a "they'll be punished when they are dead" is a abdication of moral responsibility.
aug 20, 2025, 4:47 am • 7 1 • view
I have been to plantations owned by America's "Founding Fathers." No matter how they dolled these places up to make them look nice, you could feel it in your soul these were places of immense suffering. The Founding Fathers ran their own personal concentration camps.
aug 20, 2025, 12:56 am • 2 0 • view
Only some of them. The North had no slave plantations.
aug 20, 2025, 2:46 am • 0 0 • view
We got slavery today. It’s called trafficking.
aug 20, 2025, 5:53 am • 0 0 • view
Yes
aug 21, 2025, 12:16 am • 0 0 • view
Yes! My god watch/read 12yrs a slave. An actual autobiography
aug 20, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
“It’s gonna be pretty fucking grotesque, learning about American slavery. It’s gonna make you sick—it should make you sick. Modern horror genres pale in comparison. Torture porn ain’t got shit on American slavery.” lokiexcelsiorsmith.substack.com/p/black-hist...
aug 21, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Reading some history, people dreaded family separation. Children or spouses could be sold away any time.
aug 19, 2025, 11:19 pm • 5 0 • view
Slavery was HORRIFIC!There is NO word in the English language that is strong enough to depict how AWFUL it was! Worse than anything I think we can imagine! To erase these events from our museums will not erase the FACTS that we had true monsters in our country then! There are monsters here NOW!
aug 20, 2025, 12:23 am • 0 0 • view
I love how a man who comes from a family of immigrants has the audacity to say Black history is too woke.
aug 20, 2025, 12:52 am • 2 0 • view
💯 evil disgusting violently worse
aug 20, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
There is evidence that items were made from the skin and hair of slaves. Historical accounts and museum collections contain examples of items like match-safes, book covers, cigar cases, & instrument cases covered with human skin - in some instances specifying that the skin came from deceased slaves.
aug 20, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
It is. It is a practice by which another human is regarded as not human. Slavery continues..in many other forms...it is a tremendous human fail
aug 20, 2025, 11:35 am • 0 0 • view
Slavers made fortunes then and today. How much do we think Epstein and Donald made from trafficking children? Minnesota's Anton Lazzaro had a closet of gold bars from his little child rape trafficking operation.
aug 19, 2025, 11:33 pm • 2 1 • view
aug 20, 2025, 10:09 am • 0 0 • view
WORSE! Thank you for sharing this 🫶🏽🤘🏽🙏🏽
aug 19, 2025, 11:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Now would be a good time to re-release ROOTS. That was the best miniseries, and a real eye-opener.
aug 19, 2025, 11:41 pm • 18 1 • view
Exactly!!!
aug 20, 2025, 4:50 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, the younger generations should see it! I know when I was young it left an impression on my soul. 💔
aug 20, 2025, 4:26 am • 4 1 • view
I think that needs to happen, I believe the truth of how horrific racism is needs a replay right now. Can you imagine any human so evil they wanted a human slave?
aug 20, 2025, 12:07 am • 7 1 • view
Exactly!!!
aug 20, 2025, 4:51 am • 0 0 • view
No, I definitely can't. I really think Roots and The Thorn Birds were the best series ever.
aug 20, 2025, 12:26 am • 2 0 • view
I was very small when I saw Roots, a small child and it was disturbing but I could understand that slavery is morally reprehensible, and racism is just wrong and stupid. It made an impact. Thorn birds I don't remember.
aug 20, 2025, 12:30 am • 3 0 • view
It was a best selling novel. Richard Chamberlain starred in it. Very tragic. They were the highlight of the 70's.
aug 20, 2025, 12:34 am • 2 0 • view
I will watch it sometime, thanks.
aug 20, 2025, 12:37 am • 1 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
I agree. Only a man who currently has slaves would say otherwise. Trump has slaves in Dubai
aug 20, 2025, 12:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Slavery is bad sure, but has anyone ever seen Donald Drumpf?!
aug 20, 2025, 12:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes. Unquestionably, undoubtedly yes. Worse, even, than the first few chapters of Frederick Douglass’ autobiography which is incredibly gruesome.
aug 20, 2025, 4:24 am • 0 0 • view
Trump just proving the racist we’ve always known him to be is not a sheet wearer but a blue suited Klan member
aug 19, 2025, 11:48 pm • 4 0 • view
This exactly—our history has already been white-washed: slavery was far worse than anything that made it into our history textbooks….
aug 20, 2025, 10:02 am • 0 0 • view
Over 90% (possibly 99%) of African American people in America have European DNA in them. That's not from consensual sex.🤷♂️
aug 20, 2025, 4:34 am • 11 3 • view
It amazes me how many Black and Brown folk I've seen in ICE uniforms selling others into slavery.
aug 20, 2025, 1:26 pm • 0 0 • view
The British-North American chattel slave trade is the worst crime against humanity in the history of humanity
aug 20, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
I agree but with a small caveat. It should say Is not was. It's still very much with us, if humans can get away with enslaving others they will do.
aug 21, 2025, 7:44 am • 0 0 • view
If slavery wasn’t that bad I propose reverse genocide, build some ships, exact replicas like those my ancestors were chained in. Round up every Caucasian for a transatlantic Journey to Africa, keep them for 246 years in the same heinous colonial conditions let you have a go and then call it even 😒🤷🏾♀️.
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it was. Now we live with the vestiges of slavery in the form of poverty, disease, and brutality.
aug 20, 2025, 2:40 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I remember reading James Pope got a 4060 year prison sentence for holding 3 girls captive & abusing them for 2 years, & I thought imagine the total prison sentences that slave holders deserve for imprisoning & abusing 10 million people for ~70 years each. It can't just be swept aside and forgotten.
aug 20, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 19, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
How'd that work out the last time?
aug 20, 2025, 12:00 am • 5 0 • view
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aug 20, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
You’re kidding, those out of shape people that have been rejected from everything else and can’t read the word fascism
aug 20, 2025, 12:52 am • 0 0 • view
That's supposed to be satire according to their banner, but if anything I'd say it's more like hyperbole...
aug 20, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
The MAGA base is revisionist. They really want to say Make America White Again and they're so close to doing so.
aug 20, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
When not even all physically white people agree anyhow, so that's hardly the compliment it's cracked up to be.
aug 20, 2025, 2:10 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 20, 2025, 5:35 am • 0 0 • view
Maybe just maybe the people who don't think it was so bad need to face a day of abuse, physical and sexual both to them and to their family and see how they would come out with the same attitude.
aug 20, 2025, 6:21 pm • 0 0 • view
And what followed was bad too
aug 20, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
I don't think they care. That is the whole problem, they do not care.
aug 20, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
I would say from my studies in history that they were way beyond worse than the Smithsonian would be able to display.
aug 20, 2025, 3:49 am • 0 0 • view
Trump should be forced to watch Roots, all available episodes of both on a 24/7 loop.
aug 20, 2025, 3:37 am • 3 0 • view
I don't doubt that at all. It's so fking difficult to try to understand why people actually fought to keep it from being abolished. And I fancy myself as having a pretty good imagination.
aug 19, 2025, 11:57 pm • 2 0 • view
Conservatives are built to control and torture just the way they're wired
aug 20, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 0 • view
1000%. Read people! Be curious! Of course it was.
aug 19, 2025, 11:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes it was
aug 20, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 20, 2025, 2:52 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely. It’s horrifying how much of the reality of slavery is still hidden or sugarcoated. People need to face the full truth.
aug 20, 2025, 1:36 am • 0 0 • view
There’s a scene in the mini-series North and South where the abolitionist character Virgilia Hazard gives a speech about the South’s “true crop.” I used to show that to my history classes and we’d talk about the implications. If I did that now, under this regime, I’d be fired for sure.
aug 20, 2025, 2:50 am • 0 0 • view
Denial is the number one mental health issue. And it is huge. Generational denial produces profound ignorance from which few escape. When the willingness exists to thoroughly understand the trauma of slavery, one must by force be overwhelmed emotionally. Action afterwards determines whether it took.
aug 19, 2025, 11:50 pm • 2 0 • view
A beautiful, strong sister was telling me today about the worse and how a lot just never really went away. Civil rights on top of the Constitution by a majority claiming charity as a virtue by way of their chosen religion should not have been necessary. Yet, that necessity remains.
aug 19, 2025, 11:45 pm • 2 0 • view
At least one silly troll that I have blocked and reported has strawmanned this. The point is that it's been whitewashed.
aug 20, 2025, 2:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Having been born into the segregated south, I can also say that so was Jim Crow.
aug 20, 2025, 6:02 pm • 1 0 • view
The strength of the people who were enslaved to continue moving forward is awe inspiring
aug 20, 2025, 10:04 am • 0 0 • view
It was evil; all of it! But the part that really gets me is that these slave owners would rape & impregnate their slaves & allow their own children to be slaves too. Their OWN children!
aug 20, 2025, 12:22 am • 5 1 • view
And have those children serve the children he had with his wife. Beyond vile.
aug 20, 2025, 12:30 am • 2 0 • view
Check out the book "Without Sanctuary". See the movie Rosewood. I know. Sadly I come from a long line of slaveowners. I would love to find some of the descendants of those people, if only to ask for their forgiveness.
aug 20, 2025, 1:51 am • 0 0 • view
Absolutely 💔😭
aug 20, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 0 • view
What I learned I had to work out on my own. Google is a free resource.
aug 20, 2025, 5:57 am • 0 0 • view
Slavery and all the stories told and untold are horrific by its nature of what it entails… Using people against their will for your own means! Taking people’s lives, property, children or possessions is the antithesis of evil. All parts of it!
aug 19, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Much much more.
aug 19, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Absolutely, without any doubt whatsoever. It allowed the most debauched people to express their unbridled heinous thoughts and actions freely.
aug 20, 2025, 5:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I honestly cannot believe this is where the US is. It is disgusting.
aug 20, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
You people have to get rid of that abomination as soon as possible! The man is a dangerous idiot, ruining any respect the USA had left outside of the USA! You look stupid and ridiculous from here! The most powerful country on this earth going fascist? Idiots!
aug 19, 2025, 11:16 pm • 4 1 • view
Yes you are so right ✅️
aug 20, 2025, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
I agree. Nobody teaches the awful truth of the brutality the cruelty that lasted for centuries.
aug 19, 2025, 11:23 pm • 3 1 • view
Exactly!!!
aug 20, 2025, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
Yes. Let's be real, what we see written in history books is the sanitized versions, acceptable the white monied leaders of the time so as to not soil their virtuous opinions of themselves.
aug 20, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Worse than most could imagine, those not currently in ice concentration camps or previously on Epstein island.
aug 19, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Uhmn,…truth be told, it is truly disgusting that this needs to be said, written or seriously discussed. It speaks to who, what and where we are. In deep, abiding, self-imposed, self-serving ignorance. Fascism loves that shit. That’s all. MAGA Making America Grotesque(as shit) Again! 👊🇺🇸💩
aug 20, 2025, 7:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep.
aug 20, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
And it hasn't ended. Currently, 50 million people are trapped in slavery. www.voices4freedom.org/what-is-mode...
aug 20, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
I believe this.
aug 20, 2025, 5:37 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, we are path to confront the worse of our past, and Trump calls it WOKE. We need to know so we do not repeat Ever, and be a people who loves all people. My vision-not happening with Trump in power.
aug 20, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
We’re still suffering the effects.
aug 20, 2025, 2:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Conservatives really feel like they missed out on the good times
aug 20, 2025, 12:41 am • 2 0 • view
Yes. Worse.
aug 19, 2025, 11:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Trump doesn’t know or understand the history of this country. So he’s extremely ignorant. Also, he is a well-known racist who would have taken the side of the slave masters. He has no capacity for empathy and thinks he has the right to say that slavery wasn’t that bad. He’s a scum bag.
aug 20, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
CIVIL WAR in the works maybe? What else is going to shut down this ghoul lag Neo Nazi regime... no more time to give to the death of our democracy.
aug 20, 2025, 5:54 pm • 0 0 • view
What is wrong with Trump that he would try to portray slavery as anything other than the most shameful, horrific, depraved choice of greedy, heartless people?
aug 19, 2025, 11:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Capitalism. The ultimate goal of capitalism is slavery for the workers. Employees eat into profits and capitalism is all about profits.
aug 20, 2025, 2:37 am • 1 1 • view
It is! They need desperate class of workers subservient to their oligarch “masters”. This is what they envision for us all.
aug 20, 2025, 10:03 am • 1 0 • view
Slavery is another form of Genocide.
aug 20, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
It’s slavery. You don’t need to pick up a book to know how horrific it was – it’s in the bloody name.
aug 20, 2025, 12:01 am • 0 0 • view
And... HEGSETH LOST CAUSE is a warning SIGNAL as he RETURNS Confederate statue to Arlington National Cemetery depicting ENSLAVED woman as “Mammy,” holding CHILD of a WHITE OFFICER, and an ENSLAVED BLACK MAN following HIS OWNER to war. $10M investment in pre-civil war share.google/BtYtESYeSORo...
aug 20, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 1 • view
Melt the fuckers down.
aug 20, 2025, 5:23 am • 1 0 • view
And the GOP MAGA are attempting to white wash it.
aug 20, 2025, 1:30 am • 0 0 • view
Worse than the worst prison, I'm sure. Look how white people treat brown now. It would have been horrible to be in slaved by ignorant white Christians.
aug 20, 2025, 12:33 am • 5 0 • view
TFG needs some marks on his back. QED
aug 20, 2025, 12:37 am • 0 0 • view