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Analysis | Note to Florida and DeSantis: Enslaved Africans were already skilled
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Developed skills or not, slaves were treated horribly.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Well maybe if they had picked themselves up by the bootstraps, saved more of their income, stopped buying chai lattes and avocado toast every day for lunch, and ~~had daddy give them a million dollars~~ worked really hard to earn their cash, they could have bought their freedom.
As for “being a blacksmith” — the example DeSantis cited as a skill that could provide personal benefit — Africans all over the continent already knew how to forge iron and other metals with great skill long before slavery. That’s why masterpieces like the Benin Bronzes were later stolen and ended up in British and American museums.
Just adding a recent discovery to this snippet: Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’