American Slavery was not the Vast Evil it is Portrayed as

Thanks con. There is much more I wish to get to, however I think I must start by addressing your objections as short as I can. I first am concerned with your sources, they are entirely from Internet websites and mostly wiki. I think first hand accounts are best and original sources, you have not provided any. You than attack my position with a starting asumtion that slavery was a nearly universal evil practice. However you wont be able to find original sources in large numbers to support this. Your sources will likely originate in abolitionist work, or over a hundred years later. If we allow the slaves themselves and those who viewed slavery at the time to speak, than your view does not hold up, that is why your sources come from most often wiki and Internet articles you accept without seeking the original source. Your post is also full of logical fallacies see The Fallacy of Begging the Question This fallacy is committed when a person merely assumes what he is attempting to prove, or when the premise of an argument actually depends upon its conclusion. Appeal to motive- a conclusion is dismissed by simply calling into question the motive of the person or group proposing the conclusion. You’ll often see political organizations use this tactic. Straw man- an argument based on an misrepresentation of an opponent’s positionAd hominem-attack on person not argument A red herring fallacy is where someone tries to divert your attention away from the subject or argument by introducing a new topic. This is a defense technique often employed when the person realizes you have a logical and sound argument forming. This can even develop as an unconscious technique employed by one who wishes to protect their beliefs from any scrutiny, truly a strong self delusion Round 2 Objections I would say the right to life was better cared for the slave than the free black in America. Life expectancy and population growth was higher for the slave, if for no other reason than they were valuable.The evils of slavery rape, beatings,mutilation etc 2 and 3 Yes evils happened. However they happen if slavery is around or not. If I were to selectively point to thousands of cases where within a family husbands murder wives, wives kill children etc that does not make the family unit evil, simply misused or abused. If you look at the African American crimes today, murder, rape etc the are at higher levels than ever under slavery. To claim this was the norm is simply to misunderstand what slavery was actually like, these were rare cases and slaves had laws to protect them as well. As for sexually assaulted this was far less common that supposed. The federal census kept data of mulattoes they generally were in high numbers in only three states. Also rape is an assumption. You claim laws allowed rape that is simply false. for statistics see https://www.amazon.com...White historians The skin tone of an abolisnoist from Europe, the north, or a historian does not neglect his account and what he viewed. That should be obvious and an attempt to dismiss first hand observation of slavery by con using race tactics. Somehow con has missed the vast majority of my quotes come from former slaves, not whites. That is why con focuses only on whites and ad homin at their skin tone.Work 15 hours?Simply not true, see my first post under work all day no play.? https://www.amazon.com...Slavery benifical?Slavery was benifical to the slave in that his slavery while in Africa [source of slaves in America] was in every way worse off than servitude in America. This was universal belief at the time from Americans, Europeans and slaves themselves.Round 3 Runaway slaves? “Blacks could have escaped to nearby union lines but few chose to do so, and instead remained at home and became the most essential element in the southern infrastructure to resisting northern invasion” -Professor Edward C. Smith Sometimes the picture portrayed is that slaves all wanted to run away from their masters and would do so any chance they got. While there is no question that many slaves ran away from bad conditions and bad masters, this occurrence was infrequent. During the decades leading up to the war, 1850's and 60's, only 1 out of every 4,919 slaves ran away. During the war a perfect opportunity for those who wanted to run presented itself, and those who wanted to could have done so. By the middle to end of the war, nearly all male whites were in service in the CSA army. The north invading the south and winning provided a great opportunity for slaves to run away, yet very few slaves chose to do so. According to Lincoln and secretary seawards numbers, 95% of slaves stayed home during the war. Historians downplayed slavery "millions of people died unjustly under the institution" I would say historians who interviewed slaves, and obersved slavery had the correct idea of slavery working off first hand accounts. The claim millions died in American slavery is why Internet articles should not be taken seriously. “Does yo' know de cause of de war? Well hyar's de cause, dis Uncle Tom's Cabin wuz de cause of it all an' its' de biggest lie what ever been gived ter de public.” -Alice Baugh North Carolina slave narrative“The treatment which they revive, and the character of their masters, have been much misrepresented in the non-slave holding states”-Northerner Timothy Flint, 1833Because the northern and European perception of slavery was based on books like Uncle Tom’s Cabin (by Harriet Beecher Stowe, who had never seen a plantation or been to the south), they were surprised to find out the truth during the war. As one northern abolitionist said after visiting the south, “where are your real slaves, such as we read of ?” When new Englander Fredrick Law Olmstead visited Virginia, he was “stunned” to see slaves grinning, singing, whistling, leaning on their hoes scarily working. All the slaves he said, were neatly dressed and overweight. When Englishmen Robert Russells came to the United States in 1854 and visited Richmond, Virginia, he observed large numbers of “carefree slaves” lofting around town, “As all were well dressed and light-hearted as one could possibly imagine.” Irish journalist William Howard Russell, while visiting Montgomery, Alabama in the mid 1800's said, “I perceived a crown of very well dressed negroes men and woman. Their general appearance indicated much comfort and even luxury. I doubted if they all were slaves" So with the north's Uncle Tom’s Cabin view of slavery, they were assured that when the north went to war the slaves would rise up, rejoice, and fight for the union. However, this is not what happened, often when union troops passed by slaves in the field would sing “The bonnie Blue Flag” as a northern newspaper the Rhode Island Providence post said: “Negroes as a mass have shown no friendship to the union, have neither sought to achieve their liberty nor subdue their masters. The few thousand who have come into our lines at the expanse of whites rather seek a life of laziness and self dependence. Their sympathies are with the rebels.... The truth is there is nothing more humbling than to speak of negro loyalty. Abolition has accerted it from the beginning of the war, but every fact of the times proves its a mere accretion.” As well as Blackwoods magazine of England said 1862: “The negros bear the yoke [slavery] cheerfully and heartily join their fortunes to their masters in the great struggle they are know engaged.” Union officer Charles Francis Adams Jr. (great grandson of President John Adams) wrote in a letter home to his father in 1864 on how seeing slavery first hand versus what was believed in the north before the war said “The conviction is forcing itself upon me that African slavery, as it existed in our slave states, was indeed a patriarchal institution, under which the slaves were not, as a whole, unhappy, cruelly treated or overworked. I am forced to this conclusion.” New Yorker Joseph Holt Ingram while visiting new Orleans said: “They all appear contented and happy, and highly elated at their sweet anticipations. Say not that the slavery of the Louisianan Negroes is a bitter drought.” A private from New Hampshire wrote: “After now having seen slavery for myselff , I firmly believe that we yanks have been fooled. It is nothing like we were taught. Why just the other day I saw slaves going to church who were as happy and cheerful as can be.” Kind masters?Was based on the thousands of slaves interviewed in the federal writers project and multiple first hand accounts. Your claim masters were evil comes from your arbitrary opion. Yes the master was the owner, yet it worked better on both ends if the slave and master got along, apply to work area you will find this so. Family? "Just because they were referred to with affectionate names" You select one sentence and argument out of dozens and multiple personal testimony than falsely claim my argument is based on that alone. I would say that appears a sigh of desperation. I already made the argument for family as that is what was viewed, the slaves told us and the masters. Friends? "Did white plantation owners rape and mutilate their friends?" No. That is why rape and mutilation was exceedingly rare. Break up of the Family? The family unit that was almost unknown in pagan Africa. More blacks grow up out of wedlock today than in slavery times. Only 13% of slave trade sales resulted in the break up of a family. The best production, as owners understood, was to keep the family unit together and encourage it. To buy a slave and break up his family would not be a good starting point for a productive slave. Keeping a family together would increase the slave’s happiness, increase work ethic, and reduced runaways or “lazy” slaves. Scottish observer, William Thomson, said that slave families were more intact than the people of Scotland.