'Born in Blackness': A book talk with author Howard French (03-22-2022)

[@lf1496]

I love Professor French. He is one of the few African Americans that really have my world view. I'm a black Cuban Puerto Rican and my Yoruba Nigerian culture and religion brought to Cuba by my enslaved ancestors has been the center of my culture for 500 years. Professor French shows the truth who African people truly are, a global people outside of the Western narrative. Without a yt gaze he reveals the global scale of the African continent and its people. Thank you Professor French for clarifying our story putting it in its proper context. Also I found Skip Gates need to create a moral equivalency between European slavery and African slavery ridiculous. His combative nature with him seemed odd not just regular scholarly disagreement but pushback from someone who has been paid to be an apologist for the yt supemacists system that pays him to stay in his place

[@everydaytuber]

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[@TheNphillips]

It is wonderful to hear Prof. French put together so many of the facts that while known, are seldom laid out in a comprehensive review. The book is powerful and detailed. Skip Gates nitpicking was a distraction. The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade was a demand-driven enterprise. Nobody in Africa erected a sign hawking "People for Sale" come get them and do something with them!" Racialized, perpetual, cattle slavery was Europe's most consequential contribution to humanity. Prof. French tells the historical facts in ways historians have been unable.

[@roberth2627]

Agree....! I could see Dr Gates getting uncomfortable when he started talking about the qualitative difference in slavery in Africa & the West ...the distinction should be made..the Arab & Western models of slavery had many similarities...than in Africa. .But Still love this in-depth conversation ..Just got Born In Blackness...Thank you Prof Howard French..

[@kemisoremekun4887]

Fantastic overview of an insightful book that sheds new light on a story that we all think we know but we actually don't. I've enjoyed all the interviews and discussions about this book and I commend Professor Howard French for this book as well as the other Professors for helping to delve into this topic for the viewers. Thank you

[@eulaboyd2204]

I ordered the book this week and look foward to extend my knowledge.

[@rosscockfield9231]

Invariably we go through life being able to identify dots and recount specifics. Professor French has taken these historical dots and arranged them into a picture that places Africans squarely in the center of modern history. He's done what no trained historian could do by painting a picture the world can all see. He's kicked open the door. A fascinating read.

[@mahaliagayle2618]

All super interesting, but also, concerning the naturalization of Black-centered stories, the best French books are in France, the best Italian books are in Italy, etc.; there may not be a welcoming of such stories here in the US, under the glare of the cameras which record and propagate its values. A new capital may have to be located in Africa for such stories to be able to "breathe".

[@jamalyoung8461]

Great video. Worth a watch.

[@mrSimpey]

Deep facts

[@presterjohn1697]

I would like to examine the 2 billion man hours of stolen labor figure a lot closer. 12 million Africans were brought to the Americas (North, South and the Caribbean). The period of stolen wealth spans 500 years which also includes wealth generated via prison labor, sharecropping and wage theft (from a capitalist perspective).

[@Dwtfuw4life]

born without color