Debunking PragerU’s “History of Slavery” w/ Candace Owens

Comments · 3.7K

• CY

  @CynicalHistorian · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Thanks to <a href="https://brilliant.org/TheCynicalHistorian/">https://brilliant.org/TheCynicalHistorian/</a> for sponsoring this video. &nbsp;Click the link to get 20% off an annual premium subscription<br>Click &quot;read more&quot; for further info, corrections, and bibliography<br><br>Thanks for watching! &nbsp;Please consider supporting the channel by buying merch: &nbsp;<a href="https://teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian">https://teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian</a><br>Or by donating to my Patreon: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian">https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian</a><br><br><b>[reserved for errata]</b><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeAw4xfnB2g&amp;t=550">9:10</a> - Muslims participated in a slave trade that included slavs by this time, but I was referring to their territorial extent. &nbsp;Saqaliba came from Byzantine and Viking slavers before the 11th century. &nbsp;Here’s an article on it: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/what-does-the-slave-trade-in-the-saqaliba-tell-us-about-early-islamic-slavery/EDDD35D8FD593AB8D576D11550CF62C6">https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/what-does-the-slave-trade-in-the-saqaliba-tell-us-about-early-islamic-slavery/EDDD35D8FD593AB8D576D11550CF62C6</a> (thx drogenschlechtmhkay)<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeAw4xfnB2g&amp;t=850">14:10</a> - black emperors are currently hotly debated, and I made it sound settled. &nbsp;In fact, it appears that more scholars agree that the Severans were more brown than black. &nbsp;But you may decide for yourself with this preserved painting of the family: &nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_family_of_Septimius_Severus_">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_family_of_Septimius_Severus_</a><s><i>Altes_Museum</i></s><i></i><i>Berlin</i>-_Germany_2017.jpg<br><br>Here are some related videos:<br>10 Common slavery myths: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FO9MqWugY">https://youtu.be/R1FO9MqWugY </a><br>comments response elaboration: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rzs62Y0qJ0o">https://youtu.be/Rzs62Y0qJ0o </a><br>Project Africa video on Guns Germs and Steel: &nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OQmvRUdr3U">https://youtu.be/2OQmvRUdr3U</a><br><br><b>Bibliography</b><br>Ira Berlin, <i>Generations of Captivity: &nbsp;A History of African-American Slaves</i> (Cambridge, Mass.: &nbsp;Harvard University Press, 2003). &nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2tYB3ef">https://amzn.to/2tYB3ef</a><br><br>David Davis, <i>Inhuman Bondage: &nbsp;The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World</i> (Oxford, UK: &nbsp;Oxford University Press, 2006). &nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2KRoJpM">https://amzn.to/2KRoJpM</a><br><br><i>A Companion to Ancient History,</i> 2 vols., edited by Andrew Erskine (Malden, Mass.: &nbsp;Blackwell Publishing, 2009). &nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/3zrju5p">https://amzn.to/3zrju5p</a><br><br>Natalie Davis, <i>Slaves on Screen: &nbsp;Film and Historical Vision</i> (Cambridge, Mass.: &nbsp;Harvard University Press, 2002). &nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2udiKkU">https://amzn.to/2udiKkU</a><br><br>Stanley Harrold, <i>Border War: &nbsp;Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War</i> (Chapel Hill: &nbsp;The University of North Carolina Press, 2010). &nbsp;<a href="https://amzn.to/2xbEKSp">https://amzn.to/2xbEKSp</a>

  323

• KY

  @kylewalter3111 · 4 years ago

  People don&apos;t watch Prager &quot;U&quot; to learn history or better themselves, they watch it to validate their feelings and beliefs

  3.8K

• BO

  @boxylemons7961 · 4 years ago (edited)

  Candace Owens: “Human history is complicated”<br>Also Candace Owens: <b>Grossly oversimplifies &nbsp;the history of slavery”</b>

  3.8K

• WO

  @wolfiefink · 4 years ago

  The “we didn’t invent slavery” is such a weird argument. The Nazis didn’t invent warfare or genocide but yet are the universal reference for both? I can’t go to a judge and use “I didn’t invent robbery” as an argument…

  2.3K

• NE

  @Nerobyrne · 4 years ago

  I love that saying:<br>&quot;Misinformation is like crap sprayed from a hose. It takes only seconds to deposit it everywhere, but hours to clean up.&quot;

  2.3K

• DI

  @dingusdean1905 · 4 years ago

  I love how she also leaves out that Roman slavery was based primarily on conquest and not yknow. Race.

  3.1K

• BU

  @burgerguy2974 · 4 years ago

  As a slav, I do not condone the use of my history to justify racism in the modern era.

  823

• TH

  @thegriotprince · 4 years ago (edited)

  And the fact that she said “our” as if everyone living in Africa were of the same tribe and family

  364

• ER

  @eriksolfors · 4 years ago

  As a Scandinavian I’m offended that they forgot about Viking slavery in the 9th-12th century😜

  884

• BI

  @bibulousape · 4 years ago

  Other things Aristotle believed were true:<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;Men have more teeth than women.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;Heavy objects fall faster than light objects.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;Men&apos;s blood is hotter than women&apos;s blood.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;The earth is the center of the universe.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;The earth and everything in it existed for all eternity and will exist for all eternity.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;Some animals spontaneously come into being from mud and earth; they don&apos;t reproduce.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;There are a total of seven heavenly bodies, which are perfect and never change.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;The heart is the organ of reason and intellect.<br>- &nbsp; &nbsp;The function of the brain is to cool the blood.

  21

• YA

  @yake222 · 4 years ago

  When people say, &quot;I can&apos;t be racist, I have a black friend.&quot; Candence Owens is the person they&apos;re talking about.

  2.5K

• MY

  @myronidasvestarossa · 4 years ago

  I love how you don’t have to be a leftist or conservative to find out that PragerU is objectively wrong.

  2.7K