The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s

Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by tptacek on Saturday May 12, 2018 @01:51PM (#17055175)

The other way to look at it is that hundreds of thousands of Southern white men demanded a blood price of half a million lives to relinquish a right to chattel slavery that most of them could merely aspire to execute --- that such was the depth the depravity undergirding slavery reached.

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by skookumchuck on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:32PM (#17055355)

As I said, the usual price for freedom is blood.

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by tptacek on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:54PM (#17055441)

That's maybe a good song lyric but not especially useful as an argument here.

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by skookumchuck on Saturday May 12, 2018 @05:43PM (#17056172)

There are plenty of historical examples. For just American wars, we have the American Revolution, the Civil War, WW2, the Korean War, the Vietnam War.

WW1 is a notable exception.

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by pvg on Saturday May 12, 2018 @03:45PM (#17055672)

For the values of 'song' that include 'famous speeches by Mussolini/Schrute'.

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by tptacek on Saturday May 12, 2018 @04:13PM (#17055799)

I thought that was the wheels of history, not the price of freedom, but point taken!

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Re:The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s by pvg on Saturday May 12, 2018 @04:26PM (#17055856)

I believe it was Marcus Aurelius who wrote 'It is not little details that a man making a dumb joke should fear'.

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