Imagine if you knew someone that hated themselves so much they wouldn’t celebrate their own birthday. They thought of themselves as an evil, racist, horribly bigoted person. When they hit milestone birthdays like 40, 50, 60 they not only wouldn’t celebrate them they wanted others to hate that day and be miserable.
For me, I wouldn’t want to be around a person like that, certainly not live with them. It’s a kind of suicidal sadomasochist existence. When you hate yourself with such a passion you actually thrive on others misery as well.
Imagine hating your own country this way. These self loathing suicidal sociopaths are saying America and Americans are not worthy of celebrating our founding. No country on earth has 40% of its citizens detest its history the way democrats do. This historically is what communist revolutionaries do, erase a countries history. If this proves one thing it’s that “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”, (Michael Savage).
James! When I saw your name I was so glad to hear from you. Your contributions always get my attention and I know I can question aspects I may disagree with and will always get a civil response. Good cheer to you.
Nice to see your signature writing here again James!! You are a carpenter in more ways than one. You hit the nail on the head pretty much every time with words of wisdom.
When I enlisted I swore an oath that, now decades later, still holds true. Uphold, support and defend the constitution against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic! There are only two options folks. You’re either for or against. There’s no third.
And there are several hundred of the domestic enemies in Congress, that violate their oath on a daily basis! When a member of congress goes out to protest against the laws for which they swore an oath to uphold, they should be immediately removed from Congress. Members of Congress must be held to higher standards.
Thank you for this much needed recommendation. I'm taking it and when done will pass to my family. All they learn from school and their friends is how bad this country is. It is incredible how negatively influenced our children are against the country. Look at the 250 celebration spectacle where no one will sing for it. This disgusts me. All of these people have made money thanks to our country, but refuse it any allegiance and basically dishonor it. In favor of what? Cannot see the nose in front of their faces.
Eric was recently interviewed about this book by Jan on Epoch Times. Well worth watching as a precursor to reading his book. The founding of our country had some remarkable people in remarkable times…and frankly today we are witnessing and part of it now too. There are remarkable people today stepping up and doing remarkable things at great cost to themselves. They see a higher purpose. God Bless us all.
Another book I plan to read for the anniversary is The Federalist Papers. Many years ago this was required reading and I remember being in awe of the brilliance of our founders. Time to revisit this.
I was born in 1943 in the midle of WWll in Hungary. Suffering through the following years that included the Communist forcefully takaing control of the country in 1949 by killing of all opposition with the helpof the Soviet occupational force would fill a book. Fast forward to 1956 Hungary revolted and succeed in a short time of freedom that was ended again by the Soviet tanks rolling in and reastablishing the communist rule until president Reagan came along and ended the gravy train keeping them going.
Along with about 200k other Hungarians I at age 13 escaped and ended up in a refugee camp in Austria where we pettitioned for emigrating to the US . The prpcess took 2.5 years and we finally arrived inn the US heading to Chicago all four of us with green cards in hand. Job number one was to learn english . I was 16 and I thought the American people were the nicest, friendliest and the most engaing people on earth.
By age 16 I reaised what freedom meant and I went for it . By age 26 I was in my first business venture followed by a few more false starts into what eventualy was my calling construction. Along the way I learned that keeping my word , delivering on promises being respectful to others was the way to success. My principal guiding force was applying common sense.
All very basic decent human behaviour necessary in socitey. I never blamed anyone for my failiures , never felt being a victim throughtout my life and would never rely on charity to take care of me and mine . I retired and my sons continue with what I was able to create in this beautiful wonderfull country of the United States of America.
I will never understand why we have so many people on welfare, so many endless victims in a country were so many millions succeeded over the last 250 years.
One thing I Iearned employing people was that human nature being what it is there are the lazy melcontents who are easily exploited by evil actors for power and riches.
This is not complicated in my opinion it is common sense .
Handwringing and Guilt tripping using long ago grivences is evil exploitation and should be treated like that. Demanding Reperations from people who never owned slaves by people who were never slaves makes no sense and it is evil. Yet these issues are continualy kept front and center and good people react to it ignoring common sense.
We do not need desertaion by endless books this is simple.
Americans are Good Decent Godly people, so stop feeling guilty be proud and lets have a great Birthday Party Pople !
Much against my rule of not feeding the beast, I ordered 3 copies of it today from Amazon. I did that so that he can get on the TOP SELLERS LIST over Jill Biden & Mike Pence ‼️‼️‼️
I got one for our family. Another for my sister and the third one for my grandson who is VERY CONCERNED 😟 about the state of our country.
I'm even thinking 🤔 of starting a BOOK 📖 CLUB group where we can meet, greet and learn about the founding of our great country ‼️‼️‼️
I hughly appreciate and support our country. I participated in the Tea Party efforts. I've been sorely concerned with the deterioration of respect and support for our nation and its citizenry. Particularly as spurred by our covid experiences, I've been grateful for this community and its leadership as an avenue for efforts to impact our course of events.
I've been heartened by our President's efforts to restore and beautify our country as we approach our 250th anniversary. May he have the time to achieve these goals! Thank you for bringing this book to our attention and in time to share it.
One of my own takes has been that while we've had regrettable shortcomings, over the years they've been identified and worked on. Many of our issues have been beneficially addressed. There are evidences that this process continues (despite notable and disappointing oppositions).
Time is short. If our 'experiment' is continue we need to rally the minds and hearts of a majority of our fellow citizens. Our education systems, msm and all too many have/are making this a significant challenge.
Grateful to be here and for all the patriots rising to meet the challenge!
I graduated HS in 1975 in Fairfax County, VA. Was on the National Mall for the 200th birthday celebration on July 4th, 1976. It was incredible. It didn’t matter your politics, it was a great celebration for a great nation. Will definitely add this book to my reading. But the lack of reading is one of many core issues in our national decline. Not only do few read, but fewer yet read works by those that they disagree with. Those who most need to hear this book’s message are those least likely to read it.
I have Metaxis’ book on Bonhoeffer—another great book. I’ll try to get this, but with my library needing downsizing, I’ll see. 😬
I feel a national malaise about our 250th Celebration, as if it’s not a big deal. For me, it’s a Big Deal! Joined the Army in our Bicentennial, and now celebrating our 250th year as a Republic. 🇺🇸
At work, I’m allowed to create a display, in our lobby, so each week I’m featuring one of our founding documents—last week was the Mayflower Compact—next week the Declaration of Independence, then the Constitution, and finally the original Bill of Rights. Many opportunities to point people to the Mayflower Compact and unashamedly state, “We were founded upon Christianity.”
Do what you can where you are, and remember, only 1/3 of the Colonists were for independence from England’s tyrannical Monarchy, and fought for it. They were the faithful few.
Eric Metaxas is brilliant and the timing is impeccable. Two books ordered for gifting our library and a friend’s. This is a perfect time to witness the true celebration of 250yrs. God Bless Trump for cleaning up our history that has been confiscated by the left flanks.
I don’t need to read it to know this is still the greatest country on earth. I was a history major and while I didn’t use it to teach in any schools I know this isn’t a perfect country by any means but you won’t find a country that has been as generous as ours with the resources we bountifully have. The ideas created here from the freedom we have couldn’t have been done in any other country. I blame it all on social media and more on the Chinese made TikTok. I don’t like how the country is right now but we’ve been through worse and I’ll do anything to get it back on the right track. God Bless America. Love it or leave it!
Quite unsettling that we now have such an increase in candidates at this voting time for important leading positions in our country OPENLY pushing Communist, Socialist, and Marxist ideas on our citizens like they are wondrous new inventions. But the saddest part, is how many people hate Trump so much they are willing, like Lemmings, to walk off the cliff (and take America along). To those people I have to say…we have been use to leaders who make many empty promises and do nothing. President Trump is a man of action and they mistake his good leadership for overstepping some “bounds” they think are in the Constitution. It is a pity they do not realize we have an excellent leader…the best President I have seen in my 78 years on this planet. A man who actually KEEPS the promises he ran on during his campaign! AMAZING!
And for those against our involvement in the Iran war because of their nuclear ambitions….
Remember 9-11? What if the planes had been replaced with an Atomic bomb instead? New York would not exist now……..and if we wish to avoid it from happening in the future, Iran must be stopped….RIGHT NOW. The high prices and some inconveniences are nothing, NOTHING compared to the massive rationing and blackouts the country went through during WW2! We have to tough this out to have a safer future for our children and grandchildren. Hating each other for our different opinions solves nothing. It only makes things worse as we go through this together. America is stronger if we work together…..
President Trump had posted a recommendation for this yesterday, after reading this review I bought the hard copy. I am concerned about the TDS, and USA-DS, I see around my very liberal city. I foresee a time soon when we will all need to come together over one subject: Law of the Land. Yes all men are created equal by our Creator but all laws are not. Sharia law is not compatible with our Constitution or our culture or Western Civilization. They out breed us. Liberals have convinced women that abortion is the most noble choice for an unplanned pregnancy. A man with 10 pregnant wives, vs young men here who wait until they get their careers established before marriage. Polygamy, gross subjugation / oppression of women and girls, and gays; honor killings, jihad, hatred for Christians, and Jewish people, Israel and USA, etc. In Great Britain it is a racial issue. I would not be allowed to write what I just wrote, from what I understand, without the dreaded accusation of being a racist and even jailed for it. People who brought this up during our recent Atty General Campaign, were somewhat jeered for being ignorant of what Sharia law really is. I follow Tommy Robinson and it makes me feel sick. Is he too hyperbolic? or to be believed? does anybody have serious information of what we may be facing here. Brussels is now considered "moderately safe" for travels. UK still "safe" but warnings in urban areas after dark.
Greetings from Michigan's Thumb Coast! We skipped spring and made the leap into full summer! The warmth of the sun lifts spirits and sends us merrily about our chores. For me, it 0is into the garden. I love to watch things grow and thrive, people, too, for that matter! Thank you, Dr. Robert, for the recommendation. Not only am I acquiring a copy for myself, but one for each of my children, to those by birth and to those of my heart. EMANUEL!
Thank-you very much for this book recommendation & for the series, "Turn". I will definitely read the book & watch the series. Having grown-up approximately 3-miles from part of Washington's escape route from Fort Lee, NJ, when American troops were surprised at sunrise by British mercenary troops, I have long been interested in our nation's founding. I still live approximately 15-miles from that same route, & less than 3-miles from a major Hessian skirmish. Echoes from our Revolution are pretty much everywhere I go in the course of my daily travels. I recently read another very good book, "Rediscovering America", by Scott S. Powell. I learned quite a bit from that book, that I did not know. One thing that I learned is the very disingenuous nature of the 1619 narrative that has been pushed in recent years. According to the author of this book, "At the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony, slavery existed all over the world, but it was not planned or predetermined by the Jamestown settlers. The Africans introduced to Jamestown were in fact former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, & they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time-frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". More & more it seems that those on the Left are determined to paint an unflattering picture of America for their own deeply disturbing agenda. The indoctrination & anti-American rhetoric in our public schools has been going on for several generations, whereby the average younger adult can no longer separate fact from fiction. They simply swallow whole whatever the "narrative Du Jour" is, which is very likely why so many of them fell for all of the covid nonsense. They appear to be incapable of seeking or digging for the truth & enjoy being spoon-fed from highly suspect sources.
Have read that slaves generally better treated, being valuable property, than were indentured whose living conditions often so severe as to lead to premature death.
Good point. One might even entertain the possibility that the descendants of the slaves (as compared to populations they came from) have meaningfully benefitted from becoming/being US citizens.
Imagine if you knew someone that hated themselves so much they wouldn’t celebrate their own birthday. They thought of themselves as an evil, racist, horribly bigoted person. When they hit milestone birthdays like 40, 50, 60 they not only wouldn’t celebrate them they wanted others to hate that day and be miserable.
For me, I wouldn’t want to be around a person like that, certainly not live with them. It’s a kind of suicidal sadomasochist existence. When you hate yourself with such a passion you actually thrive on others misery as well.
Imagine hating your own country this way. These self loathing suicidal sociopaths are saying America and Americans are not worthy of celebrating our founding. No country on earth has 40% of its citizens detest its history the way democrats do. This historically is what communist revolutionaries do, erase a countries history. If this proves one thing it’s that “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”, (Michael Savage).
James! When I saw your name I was so glad to hear from you. Your contributions always get my attention and I know I can question aspects I may disagree with and will always get a civil response. Good cheer to you.
Thank You DD!!
Nice to see your signature writing here again James!! You are a carpenter in more ways than one. You hit the nail on the head pretty much every time with words of wisdom.
Thank You LB. Your all like family to me!!
Well stated.
Great observations! Good to have you stopping by!
You're right, as always, King James. (We do know a person in our family who won't celebrate his own birthday with any joy. It's sad.😔)
Welcome back
Missed you, James Goodrich!
Thanks 53rd Chapter!!!
Michael Savage ! he is so right.
Get a load of this!!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t6el-K6hht5ISUY4_-1wEtI7XdyEiqCt
If I don't get a big payout, nobody gets a payout!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r7J030V5Q1mW2qx4CenzQ6wCQwTaBG6U
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11jn9Z4tpfgzFAlTHaVptG9rVfNwLy_fM
I am, however all for exposing abortion for exactly what it is...
https://youtu.be/zKjSiyaLaFU
When I enlisted I swore an oath that, now decades later, still holds true. Uphold, support and defend the constitution against ALL enemies both foreign and domestic! There are only two options folks. You’re either for or against. There’s no third.
Sadly the domestic are beginning to outnumber the foreign
And there are several hundred of the domestic enemies in Congress, that violate their oath on a daily basis! When a member of congress goes out to protest against the laws for which they swore an oath to uphold, they should be immediately removed from Congress. Members of Congress must be held to higher standards.
Agree with that
Thank you for this much needed recommendation. I'm taking it and when done will pass to my family. All they learn from school and their friends is how bad this country is. It is incredible how negatively influenced our children are against the country. Look at the 250 celebration spectacle where no one will sing for it. This disgusts me. All of these people have made money thanks to our country, but refuse it any allegiance and basically dishonor it. In favor of what? Cannot see the nose in front of their faces.
Eric was recently interviewed about this book by Jan on Epoch Times. Well worth watching as a precursor to reading his book. The founding of our country had some remarkable people in remarkable times…and frankly today we are witnessing and part of it now too. There are remarkable people today stepping up and doing remarkable things at great cost to themselves. They see a higher purpose. God Bless us all.
Another book I plan to read for the anniversary is The Federalist Papers. Many years ago this was required reading and I remember being in awe of the brilliance of our founders. Time to revisit this.
Should be required reading for all members of Congress and SCOTUS.
I was born in 1943 in the midle of WWll in Hungary. Suffering through the following years that included the Communist forcefully takaing control of the country in 1949 by killing of all opposition with the helpof the Soviet occupational force would fill a book. Fast forward to 1956 Hungary revolted and succeed in a short time of freedom that was ended again by the Soviet tanks rolling in and reastablishing the communist rule until president Reagan came along and ended the gravy train keeping them going.
Along with about 200k other Hungarians I at age 13 escaped and ended up in a refugee camp in Austria where we pettitioned for emigrating to the US . The prpcess took 2.5 years and we finally arrived inn the US heading to Chicago all four of us with green cards in hand. Job number one was to learn english . I was 16 and I thought the American people were the nicest, friendliest and the most engaing people on earth.
By age 16 I reaised what freedom meant and I went for it . By age 26 I was in my first business venture followed by a few more false starts into what eventualy was my calling construction. Along the way I learned that keeping my word , delivering on promises being respectful to others was the way to success. My principal guiding force was applying common sense.
All very basic decent human behaviour necessary in socitey. I never blamed anyone for my failiures , never felt being a victim throughtout my life and would never rely on charity to take care of me and mine . I retired and my sons continue with what I was able to create in this beautiful wonderfull country of the United States of America.
I will never understand why we have so many people on welfare, so many endless victims in a country were so many millions succeeded over the last 250 years.
One thing I Iearned employing people was that human nature being what it is there are the lazy melcontents who are easily exploited by evil actors for power and riches.
This is not complicated in my opinion it is common sense .
Handwringing and Guilt tripping using long ago grivences is evil exploitation and should be treated like that. Demanding Reperations from people who never owned slaves by people who were never slaves makes no sense and it is evil. Yet these issues are continualy kept front and center and good people react to it ignoring common sense.
We do not need desertaion by endless books this is simple.
Americans are Good Decent Godly people, so stop feeling guilty be proud and lets have a great Birthday Party Pople !
here, here!
We're on the same wavelength ‼️‼️
Much against my rule of not feeding the beast, I ordered 3 copies of it today from Amazon. I did that so that he can get on the TOP SELLERS LIST over Jill Biden & Mike Pence ‼️‼️‼️
I got one for our family. Another for my sister and the third one for my grandson who is VERY CONCERNED 😟 about the state of our country.
I'm even thinking 🤔 of starting a BOOK 📖 CLUB group where we can meet, greet and learn about the founding of our great country ‼️‼️‼️
M-ake
U-s
A-merica 🇺🇸 🇺🇲
A-gain
#MUAA
MUAA is the sound I make when I do an exaggerated kiss on my grandson's forehead!! A perfect match...
Thank you for this excellent and timely coverage!
I hughly appreciate and support our country. I participated in the Tea Party efforts. I've been sorely concerned with the deterioration of respect and support for our nation and its citizenry. Particularly as spurred by our covid experiences, I've been grateful for this community and its leadership as an avenue for efforts to impact our course of events.
I've been heartened by our President's efforts to restore and beautify our country as we approach our 250th anniversary. May he have the time to achieve these goals! Thank you for bringing this book to our attention and in time to share it.
One of my own takes has been that while we've had regrettable shortcomings, over the years they've been identified and worked on. Many of our issues have been beneficially addressed. There are evidences that this process continues (despite notable and disappointing oppositions).
Time is short. If our 'experiment' is continue we need to rally the minds and hearts of a majority of our fellow citizens. Our education systems, msm and all too many have/are making this a significant challenge.
Grateful to be here and for all the patriots rising to meet the challenge!
So grateful for the timing as well. Too dreadful PBS and America considers Fiction writer Ken Burns a Natural Treasure. Not.
But Misinformation is critically profitable.
To all those who believe...
That the forever Patriotism and our daily Pilgrimage continues to hold the greatest values in America.
I offer you my thanks and steadfast devotion.
We are at a real cosmic upheaval of vast uncertainty.
The likes of which our children's children shall bear the burden for decades or more.
Ain't no such thing as no such thing.
Here we are in an immersion of insane pursuits with unknown results. RMS
I graduated HS in 1975 in Fairfax County, VA. Was on the National Mall for the 200th birthday celebration on July 4th, 1976. It was incredible. It didn’t matter your politics, it was a great celebration for a great nation. Will definitely add this book to my reading. But the lack of reading is one of many core issues in our national decline. Not only do few read, but fewer yet read works by those that they disagree with. Those who most need to hear this book’s message are those least likely to read it.
I have Metaxis’ book on Bonhoeffer—another great book. I’ll try to get this, but with my library needing downsizing, I’ll see. 😬
I feel a national malaise about our 250th Celebration, as if it’s not a big deal. For me, it’s a Big Deal! Joined the Army in our Bicentennial, and now celebrating our 250th year as a Republic. 🇺🇸
At work, I’m allowed to create a display, in our lobby, so each week I’m featuring one of our founding documents—last week was the Mayflower Compact—next week the Declaration of Independence, then the Constitution, and finally the original Bill of Rights. Many opportunities to point people to the Mayflower Compact and unashamedly state, “We were founded upon Christianity.”
Do what you can where you are, and remember, only 1/3 of the Colonists were for independence from England’s tyrannical Monarchy, and fought for it. They were the faithful few.
Eric Metaxas is brilliant and the timing is impeccable. Two books ordered for gifting our library and a friend’s. This is a perfect time to witness the true celebration of 250yrs. God Bless Trump for cleaning up our history that has been confiscated by the left flanks.
🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thanks for the recommendation Doc.
I don’t need to read it to know this is still the greatest country on earth. I was a history major and while I didn’t use it to teach in any schools I know this isn’t a perfect country by any means but you won’t find a country that has been as generous as ours with the resources we bountifully have. The ideas created here from the freedom we have couldn’t have been done in any other country. I blame it all on social media and more on the Chinese made TikTok. I don’t like how the country is right now but we’ve been through worse and I’ll do anything to get it back on the right track. God Bless America. Love it or leave it!
Getting ready to start Chapter 2. I'm easily distracted but so far, quite interesting and you have to love the opening scene!
It's all theater...all the time.
We pick our cast of characters.
We write our own script for the most part.
All of life's a stage and we are but actors in a role. W. Shakespeare
Which will you choose to play if you could? Villain ,Victim, or Virtuous?
I'll keep choosing Virtuous, thank you.
Quite unsettling that we now have such an increase in candidates at this voting time for important leading positions in our country OPENLY pushing Communist, Socialist, and Marxist ideas on our citizens like they are wondrous new inventions. But the saddest part, is how many people hate Trump so much they are willing, like Lemmings, to walk off the cliff (and take America along). To those people I have to say…we have been use to leaders who make many empty promises and do nothing. President Trump is a man of action and they mistake his good leadership for overstepping some “bounds” they think are in the Constitution. It is a pity they do not realize we have an excellent leader…the best President I have seen in my 78 years on this planet. A man who actually KEEPS the promises he ran on during his campaign! AMAZING!
And for those against our involvement in the Iran war because of their nuclear ambitions….
Remember 9-11? What if the planes had been replaced with an Atomic bomb instead? New York would not exist now……..and if we wish to avoid it from happening in the future, Iran must be stopped….RIGHT NOW. The high prices and some inconveniences are nothing, NOTHING compared to the massive rationing and blackouts the country went through during WW2! We have to tough this out to have a safer future for our children and grandchildren. Hating each other for our different opinions solves nothing. It only makes things worse as we go through this together. America is stronger if we work together…..
President Trump had posted a recommendation for this yesterday, after reading this review I bought the hard copy. I am concerned about the TDS, and USA-DS, I see around my very liberal city. I foresee a time soon when we will all need to come together over one subject: Law of the Land. Yes all men are created equal by our Creator but all laws are not. Sharia law is not compatible with our Constitution or our culture or Western Civilization. They out breed us. Liberals have convinced women that abortion is the most noble choice for an unplanned pregnancy. A man with 10 pregnant wives, vs young men here who wait until they get their careers established before marriage. Polygamy, gross subjugation / oppression of women and girls, and gays; honor killings, jihad, hatred for Christians, and Jewish people, Israel and USA, etc. In Great Britain it is a racial issue. I would not be allowed to write what I just wrote, from what I understand, without the dreaded accusation of being a racist and even jailed for it. People who brought this up during our recent Atty General Campaign, were somewhat jeered for being ignorant of what Sharia law really is. I follow Tommy Robinson and it makes me feel sick. Is he too hyperbolic? or to be believed? does anybody have serious information of what we may be facing here. Brussels is now considered "moderately safe" for travels. UK still "safe" but warnings in urban areas after dark.
Greetings from Michigan's Thumb Coast! We skipped spring and made the leap into full summer! The warmth of the sun lifts spirits and sends us merrily about our chores. For me, it 0is into the garden. I love to watch things grow and thrive, people, too, for that matter! Thank you, Dr. Robert, for the recommendation. Not only am I acquiring a copy for myself, but one for each of my children, to those by birth and to those of my heart. EMANUEL!
Thank-you very much for this book recommendation & for the series, "Turn". I will definitely read the book & watch the series. Having grown-up approximately 3-miles from part of Washington's escape route from Fort Lee, NJ, when American troops were surprised at sunrise by British mercenary troops, I have long been interested in our nation's founding. I still live approximately 15-miles from that same route, & less than 3-miles from a major Hessian skirmish. Echoes from our Revolution are pretty much everywhere I go in the course of my daily travels. I recently read another very good book, "Rediscovering America", by Scott S. Powell. I learned quite a bit from that book, that I did not know. One thing that I learned is the very disingenuous nature of the 1619 narrative that has been pushed in recent years. According to the author of this book, "At the time of the founding of the Jamestown colony, slavery existed all over the world, but it was not planned or predetermined by the Jamestown settlers. The Africans introduced to Jamestown were in fact former slaves captured by an English privateer ship from Portuguese slave ships at sea, & they were traded for food & water. In that trade, the Africans were accepted by the Jamestown colonists as indentured servants, with a status equal to the English, Scottish, & Irish-born indentured servants who also came to America in this time-frame. The status of indentured servants meant that freedom was granted after their indenture or bond was completed - generally a term of four to seven years. The slave trade did later come to Virginia around 1650, but not in the time & way of the common narrative surrounding Jamestown, which does not in any way diminish the problem or excuse the institution of slavery in early America". More & more it seems that those on the Left are determined to paint an unflattering picture of America for their own deeply disturbing agenda. The indoctrination & anti-American rhetoric in our public schools has been going on for several generations, whereby the average younger adult can no longer separate fact from fiction. They simply swallow whole whatever the "narrative Du Jour" is, which is very likely why so many of them fell for all of the covid nonsense. They appear to be incapable of seeking or digging for the truth & enjoy being spoon-fed from highly suspect sources.
Have read that slaves generally better treated, being valuable property, than were indentured whose living conditions often so severe as to lead to premature death.
Good point. One might even entertain the possibility that the descendants of the slaves (as compared to populations they came from) have meaningfully benefitted from becoming/being US citizens.
That would not surprise me.