Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00664)

kpauljohnson wrote:
> The Lost German Slave Girl is a new book about a controversial case 
> from 19th century New Orleans of a woman who claimed to be a German 
> immigrant enslaved under false pretenses. That was extremely rare, 
> but free black slaveowners were not. Nothing is as simple as 
> soundbite versions of history make it seem.
If you include temporary slaves (which were still chattel that could be 
bought and sold), there were quite a few white slaves. But what you said 
in the last sentence is the point I'm trying to make. Unfortunately, 
part of the pseudo-postmodernist thinking that has been infecting the 
Western World is that you don't need any knowledge of a subject to be an 
expert.

Bart