Ripping the mask off of how literary history has falsely portrayed slavery.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

A Writ by Uncle Emanuel Watkins,

First off, dispelling a fallacy, in a true tyranny, there aren't just two but three types of classes with these being a master class, a slave class, and an outcaste / untouchable one. As was once demonstrated along the Ivory Coast of Africa, the master class would exploit the slave class while both of these classes together would in turn reject the outcaste class outright.
Second, the tyranny originating in Africa during the slave trade came about as a result of a former established civilization falling apart. Not only has evidence been found proving the existence of this former civilation in Timbuktu, Mali in Africa, but, according to experts, the ancient hearth in and around the Ivory Coast had all the right ingredients of environment and natural resources that are typically needed to produce such civilizations.
Third, the human souls marketed along the Ivory Coast were worth more to those whites purchasing them as slaves than to those black Africans selling them. This isn't a matter of literary history, but a matter of logic. A person selling my soul for as little as a twelth of a horse is certainly treating me worse than an animal. A person purchasing my soul for more than it was sold cares more about it regardless of how harsh they treat me as a person.
Forth, Africans brought to the New World as slaves were as helpless to the society buying them as a newborn baby is to their parents. In other words, if a slave class of Africans were happy and peaceful serving a master class of Africans prior to being bought out of that condition and brought into the New World, then such people, as they never learned how to do so in Africa, would not have known how to behave in a civilization. At best, they could make themselves useful.
Think about it. If the law allowing illegal aliens to come into this nation is causing our civilization to fall apart, then that same law can easily evolve over time to one day allowing legal citizens to be gathered up, sold, and exported out of this nation.
Before that day comes, expect the law to become tolerant allowing legal citizens to be deported just as it is now tolerant of illegal aliens flooding into this nation to work for less.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Revision, rewrite, and bump.
We tell history downhill in a literary fashion instead of taking the pain to teach it uphilll in a more philosophical fashion. Literary history tells a story presenting events with antagonistic and protagonistic characters.


To Kill a Mockery of History

. . . Once upon a time there lived ignorant white racists in the south who knew how to grow food. They took advantage of dark people and made them work for nothing while they forced their children to remain uneducated. But then one day a rich, noble uncle from the north, an educated lawyer, came to the poor, black man's defense. They all lived miserably ever after as the nation fell fourteen trillion dollars into debt.
The End.

[demolama]

While 19th century plantation slavery is the common perception we get of slavery in North America, the colonial period was much different. Slaves were more like indentured servants with the ability to buy their freedom and own property. I might suggest Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone: The first two Centuries of Slavery in North America which follows the transformation of slavery from being something used to fill a labor shortage towards equating black skin with slavery. While it downplays the cruelty of the 19th century plantation era, it is still a good read.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

While 19th century plantation slavery is the common perception we get of slavery in North America, the colonial period was much different. Slaves were more like indentured servants with the ability to buy their freedom and own property. I might suggest Ira Berlin's Many Thousands Gone: The first two Centuries of Slavery in North America which follows the transformation of slavery from being something used to fill a labor shortage towards equating black skin with slavery. While it downplays the cruelty of the 19th century plantation era, it is still a good read.

Thank you. This might sound odd, but I think reading is most of the problem. People tend to think it is healthy to read everything without taking time to consider if any of it is poison. We have a tendency to read only that which suits our agenda.
Perhaps you could help me in regards to the question I have about Tony Morrison and whether or not she is truly a great writer or whether she is just accepted as such by a literary world that is fearful of being accused of racism.
In the past, most every great writer seemed to have a strong background in philosophy. For example, one could argue Mark Twain was part of a movement called American transcendalism (back to nature). As Ralph Waldo Emerson said what a man should do while using the Native American as an example, Henry Thoreau actually went out and did it living on Walden's pond. Similarly, Mark Twain wrote a story depicting a little Henry Thoreau (Huckleberry Finn) returning to nature.
In my opinion, compared to all this, Tony Morrison is nothing. I mean, what is her philosophy? Has she totally broken away from every tradition? Has she invented a form of African American blusey and jazzy literature? Is it all deep feelings?
I think she duped us all while she continued writing in the same old "To Kill a Mockingbird" fashion. You know, it is one thing to take the pain to work out the problems regarding racism. It is quite a different matter when writing easily about the problems others have regarding racism and exploiting their suffering and pain.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Thank you. This might sound odd, but I think reading is most of the problem. People tend to think it is healthy to read everything without taking time to consider if any of it is poison. We have a tendency to read only that which suits our agenda.
Perhaps you could help me in regards to the question I have about Tony Morrison and whether or not she is truly a great writer or whether she is just accepted as such by a literary world that is fearful of being accused of racism.
In the past, most every great writer seemed to have a strong background in philosophy. For example, one could argue Mark Twain was part of a movement called American transcendalism (back to nature). As Ralph Waldo Emerson said what a man should do while using the Native American as an example, Henry Thoreau actually went out and did it living on Walden's pond. Similarly, Mark Twain wrote a story depicting a little Henry Thoreau (Huckleberry Finn) returning to nature.
In my opinion, compared to all this, Tony Morrison is nothing. I mean, what is her philosophy? Has she totally broken away from every tradition? Has she invented a form of African American blusey and jazzy literature? Is it all deep feelings?
I think she duped us all while she continued writing in the same old "To Kill a Mockingbird" fashion. You know, it is one thing to take the pain to work out the problems regarding racism. It is quite a different matter when writing easily about the problems others have regarding racism and exploiting their suffering and pain.

(Oops, I accidently did this. Sorry) And, by the way, it was the big corporate plantations that tended to be cruel towards African slaves as skave foremen were hired to get the most out of them. In contrast, the slaves on small farms tended to be taken in as family members. Why is this significant? Well, if an African American myself, this would mean small businesses are friendlier to the causes of the people while large corporations (plantations) would tend to side with tyranny.

[demolama]

Sorry I can't help you. I haven't read Tony Morrison. I barely have time to read for fun these days.

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Sorry I can't help you. I haven't read Tony Morrison. I barely have time to read for fun these days.

Most of us don't have time to read for enjoyment. I just believe we need to battle this present situation in the United States on every level with this addressing the issue of American literature. I've already taken up the battle against modern science because of how it has abandoned the American people and their Civil Purpose. I do believe that Tony Morrison will one day return as a big embarassment for this present day generation as her work is pretentiously devoid of any philosophical value beyond that of going off into emotional jazzy and bluesy feelings.
What an insult she is to the African American community!
You know, most people will diss the art of philosophy right before they set about tackling the philosophy of how they work and live. This is how we all are. It is as if we are asleep. In actuality, we should understand the use of philosophy in terms of the relationship between tryanny and the people. As the sophistication of this and that (theoretical modern science) seems to benefit tryanny, narrowing philosophically towards a self evident and unalienable Truth seems to benefit the people.
In other words, we should be existential, as we shouldn't be choosing what is the right thing to do which is just our opinions, but what is in the best interest of the people which has to do with our conscience, heart, and soul.

[awake]

Slavery, poverty and a brutish existence was the default state of man, that is until the idea liberty proved our ability to alter this default. Now we are faced with swarms of the old minds trying to claw us back down into those conditions through the use of violence and state coercion.

Might we all realize this lesson of history ; freedom is the only thing that works. Interventionism leads to socialism which ends in communism (egalitarian slavery).

[Uncle Emanuel Watkins]

Slavery, poverty and a brutish existence was the default state of man, that is until the idea liberty proved our ability to alter this default. Now we are faced with swarms of the old minds trying to claw us back down into those conditions through the use of violence and state coercion.

Might we all realize this lesson of history ; freedom is the only thing that works. Interventionism leads to socialism which ends in communism (egalitarian slavery).

The Almighty Lord Jesus Christ declared that "the Truth will set you free." This means we are free today not because of any external political manipulations, but because of the Truth we have worked out inside of us. Still, freedom for the sake of freedom is no better than bondage. Freedom at best is only a prerequisite means to a better state of contentment.
If one believes in the Garden of Eden, then slavery wasn't the default state of man. Two things had to happen for mankind to fall out of paradise into bondage. The first happened when Eve allowed herself to be tempted by the devil. The second happened when Adam failed to take responsibility for Eve's temptation choosing to blame her for the offense rather than he take full responsibility himself.
In order to return mankind to the garden, Eve needs to learn how to control the lion predator nature within Adam. She can disobey it when necessary by being submissive to his predator nature (authority) as her husband. This is how to train a massive male lion. By learning its predatory nature and being submissive to it, one can control (disobey) its nature (to kill you).
The people have to be the same way with tyranny. When we learn to do so, we control the beast.