The real history of American slavery

[trenton]

This video was very educational and I want to share it with the forum.  It corrected many of my misconceptions about slavery.  Americans were taught that slavery ended after the civil war, but in fact the last slave was freed in September of 1942 for fear that enemy nations would use the treatment of the negro as propaganda against the U.S.  The key in the 13th amendment is "except as punishment for a crime."

Slavery continued because of debt peonage and the sunset laws.  The sunset laws are a continued form of systemic racism which are still on the books in many cities across America to this day.  I live in Cheviot near Cincinnati Ohio and we used to have a law that said black people were not allowed outside after midnight.  Although these laws are not enforced, it is still technically a crime to be black in America.  If you have this stereotype in your head that black people are criminals, it's because they are criminals by virtue of the fact that they are black.

I knew the literacy tests were hard, by my God this was insane.  One wrong answer and your disqualified from voting.  The grandfather clause is a ridiculous form of systemic racism in that they don't stop you from voting because you're black, but because your grandfather was black.  Voter suppression continues to this day by moving polling stations away from black communities to make it harder for them to vote.  The attack on mail in voting does not help this situation.

 

[trenton]

I think this channel has a lot of solid information coming from a former history teacher.  He also goes into detail about modern segregation and the racist history of the honors program.  One hidden tactic is to use the excuse, "we only have so many seats.".  Even if you pass the test, they will have somebody pick who gets in.  This opens the door for racial bias and it has been happening well into the 90's.

One thing that jumped out at me was Mormonism.  The golden bible contains ideas like the curse of Cain that turned people black.  This argument was used by democrats in the 1800's after they picked up some of these ideas from religious texts.  They concluded that black people had to be slaves to pay the price of someone else's sins.

2 Nephi 5:21

A sore cursing … as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.”

Check out some of the videos of you want to challenge some of the narratives you were indoctrinated with.

[vizual]

Please provide a source that in Ohio black people can't go out after midnight by law. I would be interested to read it

[trenton]

@vizual I am referring to local and county laws, not state laws.

The law that black people can't go out after midnight used to be on the books in Cheviot, Ohio, but isn't anymore.  I looked at the laws in Cheviot, and did not find this law.  This site gives a list of many towns in America which have a history of being sundown towns.  These towns may have these discriminatory laws still on the books although not enforced.  Most of them are not sundown towns anymore, but you should check for your town on the list.

https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/using-the-sundown-towns-database/state-map/

This site shows explicitly racist laws which are still on the books in 2019.  This was not in Ohio, but prairie village, Kansas.  These are about housing black people.

https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1049052531/racial-covenants-housing-discrimination

This site gives a lot of examples of racist policies in Arkansas.  Although the civil rights act banned these laws, they continued all the way into the 90's.  The reputation of a town as a sundown town still persists in the 2000's.  It will also site examples of signs which forbade black people from being outside after dark.

https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/sundown-towns-3658/

This last site was written in 2009.  It is about racial segregation laws that were still on the books up to that point.  You will have to download the paper or read the abstract.  not only does the term "negro" still appears in laws across America, but there are many laws pointed out in this paper that contradict the civil rights act still on the books.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1428586

I hope these sites give you what you were looking for.