Let's look at today's riots in an historical perspective.. People are complaining because they think living in 21st century America, is a struggle. Let us HONESTLY look back at the circumstances we as descendants of those early arrivals have missed out upon.
First, not to be evasive, I will post the information in my own case first..
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My first progenitor arrived in New England (Boston) in 1652. He arrived in chains, being a Scottish highlander prisoner of war, of the English civil war. He was one of the fortunate ones having lived through the imprisonment in the Worcester cathedral, where out of 15,000 imprisoned, after starvation and disease, only 5,000 emerged, back into the sunlight.
Those 5,000 could not be sent back to the highlands, for fear they would return to the fight, so they were sold as indentures to places such as the Caribbean, Africa and New England.
So far as I am concerned, I am fortunate that things transpired that way, since lthe highlands were always a "hard-scrabble' place to make a living. Then, less than a century later, the highlands experienced "the clearances", a very painful time when his progeny would probably been exiled anyway..
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-Highland-Clearances/ As it was, once he worked through his indenture, he worked very hard and became a respected member of the Rhode Island community..and a friend of an aged Roger Williams. I believe all his descendants including myself, can be thankful
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Now, for those whose antecedents came in as slaves. Right off, it is clear, indenture is in no way, equal to the permanence of real slavery. The United States as a nation, only endured slavery for some 89 years or 1776 to 1865, but that was long enough.
Yes, they were brought in chains also..but thank God, that era is past.
However, I would suggest that even they are far better off for having been born here in the USA.
There are very few places in sub Saharan Africa, that would equate to even the poorer neighborhoods here. Suppose they had been born in Africa, what would be their lot?
Would they nbe better off there, than in the USA?
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