WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.120 Today we talk about our right to liberty and we'll face head-on the worst attack against liberty yet 2 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:28.520 Hey, welcome back to the Barry Farrell show it's great to have you with us. I hope you're doing well 3 00:00:29.280 --> 00:00:35.560 Today we talk about the right to liberty. This is an absolute right a natural right 4 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:42.400 But you know witness the world and you know that not all governments believe that you have a right to liberty 5 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:50.440 There's a leftist argument that liberty is not a right. They believe that the founders were flawed and thus 6 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:54.560 unqualified to lay a foundation for natural rights 7 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.720 They are wrong about natural rights, but they are right that the founders were human 8 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:06.320 Today, we're gonna take a look at the first element of the right to liberty the right to be free of arbitrary control 9 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:10.240 No one should ever be a slave. We'll look at the slavery issue 10 00:01:10.760 --> 00:01:11.720 honestly 11 00:01:11.720 --> 00:01:15.200 next time we're gonna look at the two other essential components of liberty the 12 00:01:15.320 --> 00:01:20.520 philosophy of liberty from the Graco Roman and the biblical thinkers and we're gonna look at the gift that was 13 00:01:20.800 --> 00:01:26.720 Uniquely brought to the world by America's founding but now we're gonna look at the gruesome truth of 14 00:01:27.160 --> 00:01:34.240 Slavery and here in this country if liberty is explicitly defined as freedom from captivity or control 15 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:39.680 And if that must mean that liberty is freedom from all forms of slavery 16 00:01:40.160 --> 00:01:43.280 false imprisonment or any other form of arbitrary control 17 00:01:43.960 --> 00:01:48.640 Why did we allow for the horrible three-fifths compromise? 18 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:53.520 Or the Missouri Compromise where we treated people like property 19 00:01:54.520 --> 00:02:01.200 Why if we believe in Liberty did it take until after the Civil War to make slavery illegal? 20 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:03.560 everywhere in the United States 21 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:08.240 so on the one hand you have a governing philosophy of the left which hates absolutes and 22 00:02:08.720 --> 00:02:13.040 Teaches that people today are racist based on their skin color at birth 23 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:22.080 Those ideas articulated through white fragility systemic racism and critical race theory are illogical and they're objectively 24 00:02:22.840 --> 00:02:25.600 Provable to be complete nonsense 25 00:02:26.280 --> 00:02:29.440 On the other hand you have a superficial approach to patriotism 26 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:37.120 Resulting in a discounted view of slavery in the United States and that opens up the door to an untested youth being swayed by false 27 00:02:37.600 --> 00:02:44.840 Statements, it's much better to understand the truth about the humanity of history's messengers the founders 28 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:47.240 You can have a perfect message 29 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:53.240 The message can be absolutely perfect. Even if the person delivering it is very human 30 00:02:54.040 --> 00:03:00.800 The freedom principles really are perfect. It's true that the people that delivered that message had their flaws 31 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:06.160 If the United States is so great. Why did we allow for slavery for one minute? 32 00:03:06.600 --> 00:03:13.560 That's one of the arguments of the critical race theorists that are indoctrinating the next generation in our public schools 33 00:03:14.280 --> 00:03:20.600 To answer this question. Let's start by using the scientific concept of a clear understanding of the frame of reference 34 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:28.520 This approach is essential to understanding anything really it creates a space in our minds to be logical in 35 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:33.160 This approach is particularly helpful when emotion surrounds a topic in 36 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:41.120 Geometry the frame of reference is the the axes the axes is a starting point from which you can make measurements of size 37 00:03:42.040 --> 00:03:43.920 position or even motion 38 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:48.640 You can measure the angles of a triangle by starting with a frame of reference 39 00:03:49.280 --> 00:03:54.360 Now if you're saying something's 30 centimeters long your frame of reference is the metric system 40 00:03:54.360 --> 00:03:56.440 It's the way you measure distance or size 41 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:02.760 In fact all fields of study as it relates to a frame of reference provide a set of criteria from which 42 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:06.300 Measurements or even judgments can be made 43 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:13.760 So here's an example from space from astronomy if you want to convey how long it takes for Pluto to revolve 44 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:19.320 Around the Sun you'll first need to define the frame of reference if you're standing on Pluto 45 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:22.800 And that's your point of reference you'll discover that it takes about 46 00:04:23.320 --> 00:04:27.160 1920 years or so for one day to go by a 47 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:32.720 Whole lot longer than the 24 hours that pass in one day from our frame of reference on Earth 48 00:04:34.080 --> 00:04:38.520 So how do you analyze historical issues in a fair and honest way you look back in time? 49 00:04:38.520 --> 00:04:43.480 And you start with the frame of reference of that period the cultural context 50 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:48.800 so what was the frame of reference of the founders as it pertains to Liberty and 51 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:53.680 Slavery on an individual basis. We know that some like John Adams were 52 00:04:54.200 --> 00:04:59.760 Pure they were clearly prescient and openly and vehemently opposed to slavery in any form 53 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:04.320 and they had the moral authority to make their case. They didn't own any slaves. 54 00:05:05.040 --> 00:05:10.720 We also know that many others would talk a good game while in practice they also owned slaves. 55 00:05:11.760 --> 00:05:19.280 A good example of kind of the median view is the very famous founder Ben Franklin. He had slaves. 56 00:05:19.280 --> 00:05:25.680 He even defended the honor of revolutionary fighters who owned slaves. He had this tortured 57 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:31.440 struggle within himself of the property rights argument and he thought that if he was personally 58 00:05:31.440 --> 00:05:36.080 nice to his slaves that that behavior would somehow exonerate him from the fact that they 59 00:05:36.080 --> 00:05:41.120 were slaves and that it wasn't really his business what other people did. It's hard to stomach given 60 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:46.880 our modern frame of reference on slavery. To an extent you could certainly argue that Ben Franklin's 61 00:05:46.880 --> 00:05:55.040 rationale at that time was a cop-out but it's probably a little bit more honest in light of 62 00:05:55.040 --> 00:06:02.800 his frame of reference to assume that given the context of worldwide political issues at the time 63 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:09.760 that the slavery as an issue was not at the forefront of his mind until later. And supporting 64 00:06:09.760 --> 00:06:16.800 this view is what happened to Franklin soon after impassioned speeches by John Adams on the topic. 65 00:06:17.520 --> 00:06:23.920 You can't treat people like property he would say. The property rights argument is invalid here 66 00:06:23.920 --> 00:06:31.280 because of its immorality. So during the preparation of the declaration in 1776 Franklin 67 00:06:31.280 --> 00:06:36.640 is changing. At that time Franklin agreed like many others that slavery should be abolished 68 00:06:36.640 --> 00:06:43.120 gradually. In his mind there was just too much to uncouple property rights and logistics. It had to 69 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:48.560 be gradual but when Franklin awakened to the coercive component of slavery and actually 70 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.560 thought about it he changed his tune. By 1780 he realized that there's no justification in that 71 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:58.880 people of all color deserve the same right to liberty in spite of the economic and logistical 72 00:06:58.880 --> 00:07:05.840 issues. Too bad. Get rid of it. So Ben Franklin totally divested himself of slaves by 1781. 73 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:13.200 That was just five years after being convinced in a speech from John Adams. He became so convinced 74 00:07:13.200 --> 00:07:19.440 that Adams was right that he went even further. Seeing the horror of the rapid growth of slavery 75 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:23.920 in the south he became the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society. And right after 76 00:07:23.920 --> 00:07:29.840 the constitution he signed a petition to the first federal congress to abolish slavery and the slave 77 00:07:29.840 --> 00:07:38.560 trade. Not gradually over time. Abolish it now without any qualifications. So by 1790 he's all 78 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:44.480 in with John Adams against slavery. But the damage had already been done. We already had 79 00:07:44.480 --> 00:07:50.160 to sign the constitution which included the three-fifths compromise. This didn't use the 80 00:07:50.160 --> 00:07:56.160 word slave but it essentially gave the south three-fifths representation for each person who 81 00:07:56.160 --> 00:08:01.840 was in service for years. In other words slaves. There's no doubt that the prominent founders who 82 00:08:01.840 --> 00:08:06.960 were also slave owners had a muddled frame of reference. In the first draft of the declaration 83 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:13.840 Thomas Jefferson condemned the injustice of the slave trade. That's good. He said it violated 84 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:19.920 the natural rights of the enslaved. But at the same time he basically absolved Americans of 85 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:25.440 any responsibility by blaming the presence of enslaved Africans in North America on the 86 00:08:25.440 --> 00:08:31.840 avaricious British colonial policies. And though he thought he was extra special nice to his own 87 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:38.880 slaves he still owned slaves. So Thomas Jefferson was at that time speaking out of both sides of 88 00:08:38.880 --> 00:08:46.080 his mouth. Let's stop slavery now. But I'm from Virginia and we've had slaves for generations 89 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:51.120 and I'm super nice to mine. Really nice to one of them. I'll let them go free when it becomes the 90 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:57.360 law of the land. Almost sounds like the justifications of a lot of politicians today 91 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:04.560 on any number of politics doesn't it? Another founder George Washington reveals a nuance to the 92 00:09:04.560 --> 00:09:10.800 issue. He was the only southern founder who freed a sizable body of enslaved laborers. He basically 93 00:09:10.800 --> 00:09:15.840 freed all the slaves that he previously had 100 ownership rights to. But there was a serious 94 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:22.000 complication. Washington's slaves had also intermarried with the slaves of his wife Martha 95 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:28.400 Custis. When Washington married her he married into wealth. He tried to convince Martha's heirs 96 00:09:28.400 --> 00:09:34.960 to forego their inheritance rights in favor of a huge and celebratory manumission which was this 97 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:40.640 formal release from slavery. He wanted to ensure that the entire family was set free not just the 98 00:09:40.640 --> 00:09:46.640 individual slave that he had legal authority to set free. The powerful George Washington 99 00:09:47.520 --> 00:09:54.960 could not convince Martha's family and their heirs to set them free. This is stunning, 100 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:59.760 but it's a historical fact. They wanted the money. They shut down his 101 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.200 attempt to set them all free because they wanted the funds that came along with the 102 00:10:04.200 --> 00:10:09.880 slaves. It's a horrible thing that assets on someone's personal balance sheet, their 103 00:10:09.880 --> 00:10:15.840 personal financial statement, could include property rights to a person. George Washington 104 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:22.560 wanted out of the whole debacle. It was horrible to him. Martha was wealthy. Her family heirs 105 00:10:22.560 --> 00:10:28.680 wanted to stay wealthy. So they shut down Washington's set them all free now manumission 106 00:10:28.680 --> 00:10:33.720 plan. So he did the next best thing. He made sure his last will and testament set free 107 00:10:33.720 --> 00:10:38.160 any remaining slaves that could be in any way connected to him. You know Washington 108 00:10:38.160 --> 00:10:42.800 believed in a biracial United States where both blacks and whites could live together 109 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:50.320 as free people peacefully. But not all the founders agreed. Jefferson acknowledged that 110 00:10:50.320 --> 00:10:55.720 slavery violated the natural rights of people, but he thought that conflicts over slavery 111 00:10:55.720 --> 00:10:59.920 might one day lead to the dissolution of the union. The whole union would just get 112 00:10:59.920 --> 00:11:05.200 dissolved because of it. Jefferson was looking at the intensity of the debate from the south 113 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:09.800 and he was looking at the increased racial prejudice in the north. Jefferson believed 114 00:11:09.800 --> 00:11:15.400 that deeply held prejudices would unleash violent criminal strife between blacks and 115 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:23.640 whites. So Jefferson came up with this plan that he advocated and it was a horrible idea. 116 00:11:23.640 --> 00:11:28.960 He wanted to link emancipation with removal of the black population beyond the boundaries 117 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:35.260 of the United States. It's crazy. Basically you're all free, but you need to find another 118 00:11:35.260 --> 00:11:41.080 country to live in. Just go west until you're out of the U.S. territory. The north actually 119 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:48.920 liked Jefferson's removal proposal. The south shot it down. Meanwhile, founders like John 120 00:11:48.920 --> 00:11:54.360 Adams and Samuel Adams and Alexander Hamilton, who never owned slaves, who were vocal about 121 00:11:54.360 --> 00:12:00.800 the hypocrisy of promoting a free land and owning slaves, still worked alongside those 122 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:07.640 slave owners that they so strongly disagreed with. How can they justify that? Well, let's 123 00:12:07.640 --> 00:12:12.180 look at an extremely contested issue today to provide a modern day frame of reference 124 00:12:12.180 --> 00:12:17.280 for slavery. The pro-slavery position during the time of America's founding isn't much 125 00:12:17.280 --> 00:12:22.200 different than being pro-abortion today to your typical evangelical Christian. Abortion 126 00:12:22.200 --> 00:12:27.360 has been the law of the land since 1972. If you believe abortion is killing babies, but 127 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:31.660 you want to be in politics and address other areas besides abortion, or in addition to 128 00:12:31.660 --> 00:12:37.980 abortion, you'll have to work with the large chunk of politicians who are pro-abortion. 129 00:12:37.980 --> 00:12:44.520 In the founders' case, specifically, there are 21 who are widely recognized as the prominent 130 00:12:44.560 --> 00:12:52.560 founders of the 56. And of those 21 prominent founders, only 7 were not slave owners. So 131 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:58.040 7 weren't slave owners, 14 were. And if you look at the 14 prominent founders who were 132 00:12:58.040 --> 00:13:03.600 slave owners, most of them spoke against slavery at the same time that they were a slave owner. 133 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:07.880 They believed they had an excuse to be muddled. They inherited the slaves along with their 134 00:13:07.880 --> 00:13:12.040 vast land, which was true in most cases. They were in the process of setting them free, 135 00:13:12.040 --> 00:13:17.320 like Washington actually was. They wanted to abolish slavery, but in some cases the 136 00:13:17.320 --> 00:13:22.320 estate was so vast, and some of these guys were kind of professorial, and they were inherited 137 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:26.080 their trust babies, they inherited all this wealth, they didn't believe they could swiftly 138 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.720 set them free without economic collapse. And some people sincerely believed there was no 139 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:36.560 place the slaves could go that would be better for them economically. The ugly truth of the 140 00:13:36.560 --> 00:13:41.880 culture at that time is that slavery was as ubiquitous of a worldwide evil phenomenon 141 00:13:41.880 --> 00:13:49.600 then as abortion is today. It was everywhere and among every race. And at that time, this 142 00:13:49.600 --> 00:13:55.500 period 1776 to 1787, where our founding documents are being prepared and finalized and ratified, 143 00:13:55.500 --> 00:14:01.960 the voices speaking against slavery were both slave owners and non-slave owners at the convention. 144 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:08.440 And those in favor of it were everywhere. The culture of the world was tolerant of slavery. 145 00:14:08.440 --> 00:14:15.360 All of Europe, all of Asia, even indigenous New Zealanders are on record as pro-slavery 146 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:22.840 and violently so. No government was pure. Dr. Thomas Sowell, a black scholar from Stanford, 147 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:27.320 has researched slavery extensively. In his book, The Real History of Slavery, he demonstrates 148 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:34.040 how if you take a snapshot of the median number of slaves in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, 149 00:14:34.040 --> 00:14:38.680 the slave trade was at least 10 times larger in the rest of the world than in the United 150 00:14:38.680 --> 00:14:44.560 States. Prior to the transatlantic slave trade, way back in the Middle Ages, the white slobs 151 00:14:44.560 --> 00:14:49.960 were so widely used as slaves that that's where the word for slave is derived. North 152 00:14:49.960 --> 00:14:54.920 America endured slavery way before any European arrived. The indigenous people of North America 153 00:14:54.920 --> 00:14:59.680 enslaved other indigenous people of North America. You know, people were enslaved. 154 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.720 because they were vulnerable, and people with power 155 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:04.720 used them as free labor. 156 00:15:04.720 --> 00:15:07.400 Many of the ancient European castles 157 00:15:07.400 --> 00:15:10.560 that today's woke actors own were 158 00:15:10.560 --> 00:15:13.600 built with white slave labor. 159 00:15:13.600 --> 00:15:15.720 In fact, at least 600 years before the first slave 160 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:17.100 was brought to the United States, 161 00:15:17.100 --> 00:15:18.800 the vulnerable people of the Balkans 162 00:15:18.800 --> 00:15:20.700 were enslaved by fellow Europeans. 163 00:15:20.700 --> 00:15:22.840 The poor white Balkan people were also 164 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:26.400 enslaved by powerful brown people from the Middle East. 165 00:15:26.400 --> 00:15:28.360 For most of the history of the human race, 166 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:32.920 slaves were chosen from among the closest vulnerable people 167 00:15:32.920 --> 00:15:35.840 that the more powerful people could enslave. 168 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:39.000 And it wasn't until the late 16th century 169 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:43.440 that the technology existed to go to another continent, 170 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:46.280 capture the slaves from a different country 171 00:15:46.280 --> 00:15:49.120 and a different race, and transport them. 172 00:15:49.120 --> 00:15:51.760 And when that happened, we had the horrible transatlantic 173 00:15:51.760 --> 00:15:53.140 slave trade. 174 00:15:53.140 --> 00:15:56.480 This process was brutal, and it was businesslike. 175 00:15:56.480 --> 00:15:58.920 The first evil participant was the tracker, 176 00:15:58.920 --> 00:16:01.700 kind of like an evil bounty hunter en masse. 177 00:16:01.700 --> 00:16:04.760 These were the Africans who tracked down and captured 178 00:16:04.760 --> 00:16:06.800 vulnerable Africans. 179 00:16:06.800 --> 00:16:09.160 The captured Africans were treated brutally 180 00:16:09.160 --> 00:16:11.200 and summarily killed, I mean just, boom, 181 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:14.280 killed right there on the spot, by the African trackers 182 00:16:14.280 --> 00:16:17.200 if they tried to escape, as they were brought in chains 183 00:16:17.200 --> 00:16:22.080 and cages to the second evil culprit, who was the broker. 184 00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:24.800 These brokers were also largely Africans, 185 00:16:24.800 --> 00:16:28.320 but there were also a mix of English and Europeans. 186 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:30.120 The brokers sold the African slaves 187 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:32.160 to the various buyers, most of whom 188 00:16:32.160 --> 00:16:34.760 were from up and down the Atlantic. 189 00:16:34.760 --> 00:16:37.320 The third culprit was the shipper. 190 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:39.360 These guys shipped the African slaves 191 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.200 to their final destination, usually in horrible conditions, 192 00:16:42.200 --> 00:16:44.040 and they got paid for that. 193 00:16:44.040 --> 00:16:46.560 The fourth evil culprit was the buyer 194 00:16:46.560 --> 00:16:49.080 who took possession of the slave and put them to work. 195 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:51.520 There's a few others in there, like the auctioneer 196 00:16:51.520 --> 00:16:52.240 on the other end. 197 00:16:52.240 --> 00:16:54.880 But the range of treatment here from the buyer 198 00:16:54.880 --> 00:16:56.520 is just all over the map. 199 00:16:56.520 --> 00:16:58.680 Some provided decent food and shelter, 200 00:16:58.680 --> 00:17:00.600 and others were treated horribly. 201 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:01.800 But it doesn't really matter. 202 00:17:01.800 --> 00:17:04.040 None of them were free. 203 00:17:04.040 --> 00:17:05.560 The distribution of the buyers were 204 00:17:05.560 --> 00:17:07.760 specific to the Western Atlantic. 205 00:17:07.760 --> 00:17:12.119 And the buyer distribution there might surprise you. 206 00:17:12.119 --> 00:17:17.780 So along the Atlantic, 3.6% went to North America, 207 00:17:17.780 --> 00:17:24.420 43.2% to the islands, 53% to the mainland of South America. 208 00:17:24.420 --> 00:17:26.940 Now, it was still horrible, but the US buyer 209 00:17:26.940 --> 00:17:30.020 was not the only sinner and, in absolute numbers, 210 00:17:30.020 --> 00:17:32.260 the minority participant. 211 00:17:32.260 --> 00:17:34.140 It's called the transatlantic slave trade, 212 00:17:34.140 --> 00:17:38.540 but it should be called the African slave trade era. 213 00:17:38.540 --> 00:17:42.660 That's because, according to the Purdue Black Cultural Center, 214 00:17:42.660 --> 00:17:48.580 2,550,000 black slaves went from Africa 215 00:17:48.580 --> 00:17:51.740 to the north part of Africa in the Middle East. 216 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:56.020 In other words, more than 6.5 times as many African slaves 217 00:17:56.020 --> 00:17:59.140 went from Africa to Africa in the Middle East 218 00:17:59.140 --> 00:18:01.420 than went to North America. 219 00:18:01.420 --> 00:18:03.580 So greater than 90% of the slaves 220 00:18:03.580 --> 00:18:06.140 shipped from Africa across the Atlantic 221 00:18:06.140 --> 00:18:10.100 went to the Caribbean and to South America. 222 00:18:10.100 --> 00:18:12.300 This was to serve the European imperialistic ventures 223 00:18:12.340 --> 00:18:14.340 in sugar, indigo, and tobacco. 224 00:18:14.340 --> 00:18:17.340 And as horrific as slavery was in the United States, 225 00:18:17.340 --> 00:18:19.000 there were much larger raw numbers 226 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:22.300 of black Africans enslaved in Islamic and African countries 227 00:18:22.300 --> 00:18:25.260 really at the same time, as well as down in South 228 00:18:25.260 --> 00:18:26.780 America and the Caribbean. 229 00:18:26.780 --> 00:18:29.380 Slavery was a terrible human rights violation, 230 00:18:29.380 --> 00:18:32.860 and it abused whites, blacks, and browns around the world. 231 00:18:32.860 --> 00:18:36.260 For example, over 1 million white Europeans 232 00:18:36.260 --> 00:18:40.780 were enslaved by North African pirates from 1500 to 1800, 233 00:18:40.780 --> 00:18:44.140 some over the same time frame in which the transatlantic 234 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:46.180 trade was happening. 235 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:48.060 These guys would be pillaged and plundered 236 00:18:48.060 --> 00:18:50.340 all along the Mediterranean coast. 237 00:18:50.340 --> 00:18:52.260 These Christian white slaves were 238 00:18:52.260 --> 00:18:54.060 brought to the sultan in the Middle East 239 00:18:54.060 --> 00:18:56.180 and treated brutally. 240 00:18:56.180 --> 00:18:58.500 I mean, we know the details of a Moroccan sultan 241 00:18:58.500 --> 00:19:01.020 who built the huge city of palaces 242 00:19:01.020 --> 00:19:04.060 called the Meknes Tafalat. 243 00:19:04.060 --> 00:19:06.100 He was crazy. 244 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:09.720 He forced his wives to pull him around in his chariot, 245 00:19:09.720 --> 00:19:12.560 and he would just behead someone on a whim. 246 00:19:12.560 --> 00:19:14.840 The sultan thought it was funny to cut off someone's head 247 00:19:14.840 --> 00:19:17.000 to keep the fear level high. 248 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.840 You know what's wild is the lack of response 249 00:19:19.840 --> 00:19:21.480 by the governments of the home countries 250 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:24.360 during this white slavery period. 251 00:19:24.360 --> 00:19:27.840 The United Kingdom removed the documentation 252 00:19:27.840 --> 00:19:30.920 on this white slavery from its history books. 253 00:19:30.920 --> 00:19:32.280 You want to know why? 254 00:19:32.280 --> 00:19:33.920 During this period, many slaves were 255 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.680 able to get letters off to the United Kingdom government 256 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:38.280 pleading for help. 257 00:19:38.280 --> 00:19:41.040 Though sometimes a brave friar would buy back a Christian 258 00:19:41.040 --> 00:19:43.480 slave, the government ignored the issue. 259 00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.400 So white European people were forcibly 260 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.520 taken from their homes and their churches in broad daylight 261 00:19:49.520 --> 00:19:51.960 and taken into slavery by the Muslims. 262 00:19:51.960 --> 00:19:54.720 They were brought in by the batch, suffered brutality, 263 00:19:54.720 --> 00:19:57.080 often tortured until they renounced their Christian faith 264 00:19:57.080 --> 00:19:58.440 or died. 265 00:19:58.440 --> 00:20:00.000 This reality in the 266 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:04.520 Middle East was on full display during the slave trade in the U.S. 267 00:20:04.520 --> 00:20:08.960 and the islands and South America. So after the U.S. won the Revolutionary War it 268 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.500 lost protection from the British Navy for its merchant ships. 269 00:20:11.500 --> 00:20:15.640 As a result, the United States actually paid tribute, a type of honor, to the 270 00:20:15.640 --> 00:20:16.640 Sultans. 271 00:20:16.640 --> 00:20:20.520 An entry tax of sorts to keep the Americans from being enslaved 272 00:20:20.520 --> 00:20:23.920 or held for ransom when entering the Mediterranean. They all knew about it. 273 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:27.240 Thomas Jefferson and John Adams didn't want to pay the tribute 274 00:20:27.840 --> 00:20:31.080 but they felt they had no choice until they could build a navy of their own. 275 00:20:31.080 --> 00:20:34.080 Everyone knew about those Islamic slave masters. 276 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:38.640 You know, Dr. Sowell reminds us that white European slaves were still being sold 277 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.000 on the auction block in Egypt for two decades 278 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:46.480 after the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in the United States. 279 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:49.880 That does not minimize the horror of slavery in the United States. 280 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:53.760 Absolutely not. But it does put the issue of slavery in a historical frame of 281 00:20:53.760 --> 00:20:54.680 reference. 282 00:20:55.600 --> 00:20:58.280 Much has been said about how evil the Founding Fathers were 283 00:20:58.280 --> 00:21:02.720 and since they owned slaves in some cases, none of their documents 284 00:21:02.720 --> 00:21:06.880 should be recognized is how the argument goes. But that's not a fair view. 285 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:11.960 The Union was almost not formed because of the moral dilemma at our 1787 286 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:13.360 Constitutional Convention. 287 00:21:13.360 --> 00:21:17.160 If they didn't come up with the compromise the South was gonna walk 288 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:21.040 and we would have no Union. At this time George Washington wrote, 289 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:24.600 There's not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan 290 00:21:24.600 --> 00:21:26.400 adopted for the abolition of slavery. 291 00:21:26.400 --> 00:21:30.360 In a Constitutional Convention speech, James Madison 292 00:21:30.360 --> 00:21:34.400 argued against slavery and he took notes from the other speeches and in his notes 293 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:35.640 of the convention he wrote, 294 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:39.640 The convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there 295 00:21:39.640 --> 00:21:41.400 could be property in men. 296 00:21:41.400 --> 00:21:45.280 James Madison inherited his slaves from his dad 297 00:21:45.280 --> 00:21:48.600 and at the same time he's on record multiple times being very much against 298 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:53.400 slave ownership. Maybe this is like a sincere environmentalist believing that 299 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:54.960 gas-powered airplanes are bad 300 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.960 but he still flies to get from point A to point B. I don't know. 301 00:21:57.960 --> 00:22:04.200 John Jay said, It's much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. 302 00:22:04.200 --> 00:22:08.520 The honor of the states as well as justice and humanity 303 00:22:08.520 --> 00:22:13.760 in my opinion loudly call upon them to emancipate 304 00:22:13.760 --> 00:22:17.160 these unhappy people. To contend 305 00:22:17.320 --> 00:22:21.960 for our own liberty and to deny that blessing to others 306 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:25.120 involves an inconsistency not 307 00:22:25.120 --> 00:22:30.360 to be excused. Now John Jay was the first Supreme Court Justice 308 00:22:30.360 --> 00:22:33.840 and he owned 17 slaves 309 00:22:33.840 --> 00:22:38.400 but he was a persistent and vocal advocate of liberating all of them. 310 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:43.640 So what's in his head? Some suggest that it was similar to others who 311 00:22:43.640 --> 00:22:46.760 live this hypocrisy. A simple competitive 312 00:22:46.760 --> 00:22:50.040 strategy economics. He didn't want to let 313 00:22:50.040 --> 00:22:54.400 his slaves go unless everyone else had to at the same time. Yet he spoke 314 00:22:54.400 --> 00:22:58.760 eloquently and seemingly sincerely about getting rid 315 00:22:58.760 --> 00:23:02.560 of slavery. He thought he treated his slaves respectfully and 316 00:23:02.560 --> 00:23:06.160 in reality he just didn't see the boulder in his own eye. 317 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:10.600 Patrick Henry, the give me liberty or give me death guy, 318 00:23:10.600 --> 00:23:15.040 he said, I believe a time will come when an opportunity will be 319 00:23:15.040 --> 00:23:18.320 offered to abolish this lamentable evil. 320 00:23:18.320 --> 00:23:21.840 Now Patrick Henry was a leading spokesman against slavery. We can find a 321 00:23:21.840 --> 00:23:22.720 bunch of other quotes. 322 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.400 He was opposed to slavery on a number of grounds. His faith, 323 00:23:26.400 --> 00:23:30.760 it was against the teachings of the Bible. His personal decency and belief of 324 00:23:30.760 --> 00:23:35.400 how moral he was, it was immoral. His politics, it was against liberty 325 00:23:35.400 --> 00:23:39.960 and he was way for liberty. He's credited with actually stopping the Virginia 326 00:23:39.960 --> 00:23:40.840 slave trade 327 00:23:40.840 --> 00:23:44.000 so Virginia couldn't take him anymore when he shut it down. 328 00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:50.400 Yet he didn't release his own slaves. He treated them really well. 329 00:23:50.400 --> 00:23:53.840 He partly justified it that that was part of the reason. He did teach them how to 330 00:23:53.840 --> 00:23:54.360 read 331 00:23:54.360 --> 00:23:58.160 and to read the Bible. They were also taught specific traits 332 00:23:58.160 --> 00:24:02.360 such as carpentry, distilling whiskey, tanning leather, or blacksmithing. 333 00:24:02.360 --> 00:24:05.440 He felt he was giving them a chance to succeed once they were free. 334 00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:08.520 But why not just set them free after he trained them? 335 00:24:08.520 --> 00:24:12.560 He's famously quoted as saying he was, 336 00:24:12.760 --> 00:24:13.680 and this is the quote, 337 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:17.800 drawn along by the general inconvenience 338 00:24:17.800 --> 00:24:22.400 of living here without them. In other words, economics. 339 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:25.520 Founding father George Mason said, 340 00:24:25.520 --> 00:24:28.560 the augmentation of slaves weakens the states 341 00:24:28.560 --> 00:24:32.000 and such a trade is diabolical in itself and 342 00:24:32.000 --> 00:24:37.520 disgraceful to mankind. George Mason was a fourth-generation Virginian 343 00:24:37.520 --> 00:24:41.720 so he was steeped in the culture of slave labor. At 21 he 344 00:24:41.760 --> 00:24:44.920 inherited his father's large estate which included 345 00:24:44.920 --> 00:24:48.440 thousands of acres of farmland in Virginia 346 00:24:48.440 --> 00:24:51.840 and Maryland as well as thousands of acres of uncleared 347 00:24:51.840 --> 00:24:55.640 land further west. And it included his father's 348 00:24:55.640 --> 00:25:00.080 slaves. He hated slavery. He spoke out against it consistently. 349 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:07.680 thought all slaves should be freed, but he didn't know how to practically extricate himself from it. 350 00:25:08.560 --> 00:25:16.320 Madison wrote, the magnitude of this evil slavery among us is so deeply felt and so universally 351 00:25:16.320 --> 00:25:23.360 acknowledged that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it. 352 00:25:23.920 --> 00:25:28.320 So what was his remedy? Well, essentially he wanted to tell everyone they were free right now, 353 00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:33.200 but allow them a first right to work for the same place at a negotiated wage 354 00:25:33.200 --> 00:25:36.080 and then give the slave owner a transition period of sorts. 355 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.520 So there you have it. That gives you a pretty good picture of those who were opposed to slavery 356 00:25:41.520 --> 00:25:46.480 during the Constitutional Convention, but muddled in their personal moral authority. 357 00:25:47.520 --> 00:25:54.640 Do we know of any politicians today who can talk a good game, but do not live so purely 358 00:25:54.640 --> 00:26:00.560 behind the scenes? There was an attempt by many of the founders to eliminate slavery out the gate, 359 00:26:00.560 --> 00:26:05.440 but the South had too much leverage and the North caved to get the Constitution finalized. 360 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:10.240 John Adams was totally downtrodden over the matter. He thought for sure he could get it 361 00:26:10.240 --> 00:26:15.120 done at the Constitution. He wanted to abolish slavery explicitly 11 years earlier at the 362 00:26:15.120 --> 00:26:20.800 Declaration of Independence stage, but the South just had too much power and they could foil the 363 00:26:20.800 --> 00:26:28.320 whole union. So the North had to either accept an unholy political compromise or be left with no 364 00:26:28.320 --> 00:26:36.400 union at all. That was the context. That was the frame of reference. Though our generation is on 365 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:42.240 the other side of that horror, we should judge previous generations with a little humility. 366 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:49.760 For example, how many of the mainstream media condemn on a regular basis the current sex 367 00:26:49.760 --> 00:26:54.960 trafficking slave trade in the United States? Almost never hear about it. So the next time a 368 00:26:54.960 --> 00:27:00.800 left-wing Democrat tries to convince you of systemic racism, please remind him of a few tidbits. 369 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:06.080 In the South, Democrats wanted to continue the slave trade all the way up through and after the 370 00:27:06.080 --> 00:27:13.200 war, but they lost that battle during the Civil War. So after the Civil War, they invented Jim Crow laws. 371 00:27:13.200 --> 00:27:20.160 Jim Crow laws were designed, promulgated, and executed by Democrats from the South to continue 372 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:26.160 discriminating against the blacks. This is after they lost the Civil War and this is after the 13th 373 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:33.040 Amendment gets passed. Against our right-to-life declaration in the Declaration of Independence, 374 00:27:33.040 --> 00:27:38.960 Jim Crow laws were a system of state-enforced laws that relegated blacks to inferior status. 375 00:27:38.960 --> 00:27:44.080 Back of the bus, can't use that washer or dryer, can't go over here to this drinking fountain, 376 00:27:44.080 --> 00:27:52.320 it was horrible. Later, Democrat President Woodrow Wilson segregated the entire Federal 377 00:27:52.320 --> 00:27:58.800 Civil Service. Had blacks working over here, whites working over here. And then Democrat 378 00:27:58.800 --> 00:28:06.640 President FDR appointed Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. He was a member of the ultra-horrible 379 00:28:06.640 --> 00:28:15.760 Ku Klux Klan. Before LBJ took up the cause of civil rights as president for political reasons, 380 00:28:16.480 --> 00:28:20.960 he blocked the GOP 1956 Civil Rights Bill when he was Majority Leader of the Senate. 381 00:28:21.760 --> 00:28:28.080 And when he finally took up the bill in 1964, more Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil 382 00:28:28.080 --> 00:28:35.520 Rights Act. Before that historic signing, GOP President Eisenhower introduced the 1957 Civil 383 00:28:35.520 --> 00:28:44.720 Rights Act, but Democrat LBJ gutted it. Democratic Senators filibustered the GOP 1960 Civil Rights Act. 384 00:28:46.640 --> 00:28:51.520 You know the Great Society programs that they devised? They were all devised by Democrats in 385 00:28:51.520 --> 00:28:57.280 the 60s and they created a welfare state that assaulted the American black family. Later, 386 00:28:57.280 --> 00:29:01.920 you got Robert Byrd, who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and became the Democratic leader in the 387 00:29:01.920 --> 00:29:07.280 Senate in the 1980s. The current Democrat president that's in office right now was cozy 388 00:29:07.280 --> 00:29:12.720 with high-ranking members or past members of the KKK. So here's a final thought for discussion. 389 00:29:14.240 --> 00:29:22.000 How did worldwide slavery end? I mean, for goodness gracious sakes, we have whole classes 390 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:27.920 on the fall of the Roman Empire. Aren't the academics curious on how a worldwide evil was 391 00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:34.640 eradicated? Does your eighth grade civics class answer this question? Evangelical Christians like 392 00:29:34.640 --> 00:29:39.600 Wilberforce and Catholic leaders provided the moral outcry that eventually ended it all over 393 00:29:39.600 --> 00:29:45.840 the world. Documented. It's history. And after slavery was defeated in the United States, 394 00:29:45.840 --> 00:29:53.920 how long did it take to end elsewhere as a comparison? Up to a century. And finally, 395 00:29:53.920 --> 00:29:57.600 what evidence is there that slavery came under attack in any country, 396 00:29:57.600 --> 00:29:59.840 anywhere in the world before the 18th century? 397 00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:08.000 There was none, no political leaders, no religious leaders, no journalistic leaders, no outcry. 398 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:14.000 Now there were these three Quakers who were abolitionists in the 1700s, but no one really 399 00:30:14.000 --> 00:30:15.500 knew who they were. 400 00:30:15.500 --> 00:30:17.600 But they did lay a foundation. 401 00:30:17.600 --> 00:30:24.320 But the first political heavyweight was John Adams, who had the moral authority to make 402 00:30:24.320 --> 00:30:26.720 the case against slavery. 403 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:32.280 By the 19th century, the leading slave trader, Britain, became the leading slave destroyer. 404 00:30:32.280 --> 00:30:36.240 When Britain stamped out slavery, they were at the zenith of their power and they had 405 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:41.000 all kinds of diplomatic muscle to influence decisions upon a quarter of the world. 406 00:30:41.000 --> 00:30:46.800 So the Africans, the Asians, the Arabs, and others bitterly opposed dropping slave trade. 407 00:30:46.800 --> 00:30:49.240 But Britain was powerful and insisted. 408 00:30:49.240 --> 00:30:53.200 So all the other non-Western countries wanted to keep slavery going. 409 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:57.320 In fact, for more than a century after Britain officially ended their slave trade, the other 410 00:30:57.320 --> 00:31:00.320 non-Western countries kept the practice. 411 00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:07.120 And where is the outcry now of today's slaves? 412 00:31:07.120 --> 00:31:12.560 Where's the research, the investigative journalism on today's slaves? 413 00:31:12.560 --> 00:31:18.780 There are an estimated 30 million slaves today. 414 00:31:18.780 --> 00:31:23.580 This isn't officially sanctioned slave trade like in times past, where you actually had 415 00:31:23.580 --> 00:31:26.540 a law that allowed for it. 416 00:31:26.540 --> 00:31:33.580 But there are slaves in remote parts of India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Uzbekistan. 417 00:31:33.580 --> 00:31:37.660 And without remorse, there's over a million slaves in North Korea. 418 00:31:37.660 --> 00:31:44.420 And according to Operation Underground Railroad, two million of those 30 million are child 419 00:31:44.420 --> 00:31:46.540 sex slaves. 420 00:31:46.540 --> 00:31:48.900 Where's the outcry? 421 00:31:48.900 --> 00:31:50.900 Don't take the bait of the left. 422 00:31:50.900 --> 00:31:53.940 They have no interest in setting people free. 423 00:31:53.940 --> 00:31:56.700 You were not born a racist. 424 00:31:56.700 --> 00:32:01.080 The right to liberty was firmly established in the American Declaration of Independence 425 00:32:01.080 --> 00:32:06.020 and the Constitution, and with the 13th Amendment more perfectly completed. 426 00:32:06.020 --> 00:32:09.220 You are created equal. 427 00:32:09.220 --> 00:32:11.540 All people can be lifted up. 428 00:32:11.540 --> 00:32:14.460 No color is better than another. 429 00:32:14.460 --> 00:32:21.180 The right to liberty is a powerful reality, and it did not previously exist by law for 430 00:32:21.180 --> 00:32:23.220 all people. 431 00:32:23.220 --> 00:32:24.220 To your freedom. 432 00:32:24.220 --> 00:32:25.220 God bless you. 433 00:32:25.220 --> 00:32:26.220 Hi. 434 00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:27.220 I'm David Farah. 435 00:32:27.220 --> 00:32:32.460 Thank you for listening to my dad's podcast, The Barry Farah Show, Culture Shift. 436 00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:35.900 Click subscribe now to be sure you don't miss an episode. 437 00:32:35.900 --> 00:32:41.060 Share this podcast with your friends on social media and give The Barry Farah Show your five-star 438 00:32:41.060 --> 00:32:42.140 rating. 439 00:32:42.140 --> 00:32:42.860 See you next time.