Ken Burns; Ben Franklin
Brookwood
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Being an American History buff, I watched Burns documentary on Ben Franklin presented on PBS this weekend. I thought it was very good up until a few "historians" started to add current opinions about slavery.
More or less grading Frankin's life as a slave owner like a grade school exam. I guess they passed him just enough that it would be just barely OK to allow his story to be told.
Then another stated that our Constitution was meant to be a work in progress!! Designed to be changed with the times. I can agree with adding amendments under rigorous protocols but that is all. PERIOD!
In the past I have held several of Burns documentary's in high regards. His Civil War series was excellent IMO. Unfortunately, whether he has succumbed to liberal pressures at large to make a buck or who knows??? It saddens me greatly.
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The Civil War......one of my favorites! Shelby Foote will always be missed.
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is another great one.
All of burns documentaries end up on the subject of blacks.
Franklin was a member of the "Hell Fire Club" where rich liberals through wild parties for ladies and mocked religious persecutions.
I watched 20 minutes. And every 5 minutes they said, "Yes he risked his life for the Revolution, but did you know he owned slaves!!!"
Dear God he even ran ads for catching runaway slaves in his newspaper!!!!!!! Dig up the body and hang him!!!
He also got tired of the native American tradition of coming into town on weekends and slaughtering a bull for their feast.
Something has to excuse Lincoln's fascist tyranny. Like current events.
I have not seen it . but I look it up
I will agree it seems every show or news article has to toss in slavery its the new woke got to be the good side thing to to get on the soap box and call out America. never mind many country's had slaves and there own country ( Africa )had slaves even hunted and sold them . its all about follow the money whites should be ashamed well only USA . my 2 cents get over it 150 + years ago how many indentured servants or share croppers or shanghaied sailor's and so on were treated the same way . will add in the native American's were treated even worse ( In my opinion )
Correct. Indians got it ten times worse than black slaves did.
They don't report what really happened on any of these shows concerning the slaves.
"The major Atlantic slave-trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were the Portuguese, the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, and the Danish. Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders.
Europeans gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the Americas. Except for the Portuguese, European slave traders generally did not participate in the raids because life expectancy for Europeans in sub-Saharan Africa was less than one year during the period of the slave trade (which was prior to the widespread availability of quinine as a treatment for malaria)."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#:~:text=The%20major%20Atlantic%20slave%2Dtrading,slaves%20from%20local%20African%20leaders.
We ended slavery 157 years ago. It’s time for black Americans to move on.
If reparation is what they seek, what will I get out of it? I had a great grandfather that fought on the side of the north to preserve the union and end slavery.
Disgusting how people ( liberals) try to rewrite history to their own liking.
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