Lordo wrote:Oceanside50 wrote:Not too far away from here is Jamestown, Virginia.. Jamestown was the first successful English colony in North America(1607). Many consider Jamestown the beginning of America. To my surprise the native Indians showed the English tobacco. Tobacco was not known in Europe. The English took to tobacco to England and eventually to the rest of the world. Tobacco eventually became a cash crop here in Virginia. Englishmen immigrated to Jamestown for plenty of free land to grow their tobacco and to export it to Europe. At one point there were more English in Virginia growing tobacco, then there were in England.. The farming of tobacco needed more labor, that’s when someone came up with the idea to bring black slaves to Virginia.. The colonies grew and just 150 years later, the colonies declared their independence from England..
Before you develop your theory regarding slavery, lets get the bits you missed out first. When the English settlers first arrived there, they were starving because the corn they brought there did not do well. It was the Native Americans that helped them with food and gave thme seed to grow to survive. They also taught them how to ground corn and make it palatable.
As a food source, corn was abundant, adaptable, and nourishing, saving many early settlements from starvation. The Native Americans taught the Europeans much more than planting and raising corn. They showed how corn was properly ground and made palatable in various ways.
https://www.revolutionarywarjournal.com/indian-corn/#:~:text=As%20a%20food%20source%2C%20corn%20was%20abundant%2C%20adaptable%2C,properly%20ground%20and%20made%20palatable%20in%20various%20ways.And of course we all know what they did to the Native Americans afterwards.
Now lets see your justification abour slavery.
I saw the Christian church on the archeological diagram of Jamestown, I couldn’t wrap my ahead around how these English, being Christian could import humans to be their slaves….
The English are Protestants, very different then Christian Orthodox. After their split from the Catholics. Protestants began to follow “ Sola Scriptura” latin for the absolute and final authority of the Bible, basically knowing the Bible in its most literal form.. I’ve heard these people recite from memory whole paragraphs of the Bible with verse number and paragraph number….
There are references to slavery in the Bible :
Leviticus : Hebrew servants were not to be treated as slaves but as hired workers.
Leviticus: Purchase your slaves from the nations around you, they are property for life and you could bequeath them to your children for life
Exodus: describes how bad a slave could be beaten with a rod. As long as the slave recovered with in a day or two the owner wasn’t punished since the slave was his property..
I’ve heard evangelicals say” God knew that man was evil, so he came up with laws that governed slavery”. In my opinion pure nonsense.. But the Protestants held onto these beliefs of having slaves for close to 400 years..
On the other side of the Christian perspective the Orthodox see the Bible as truth but also as a drop in the ocean of Gods infinity.. a paragraph out of the Bible could not come close to describing the infinity of God..
