Early American colonists did not buy African slaves from the American Indians.
No but plenty African slaves were captured and sold by their fellow Africans to European slave traders. Don’t forget to include that.
I will never understand why conservatives are so convinced that
tu quoque accusations are some sort of slam dunk finisher of an argument. Is there some sort of rule that says, if you voted for Bush, your mental development needs to stop at seventh grade?
Not seeing where TSwizzle is supposed to have claimed Cheerful Charlie was a slave trader. TS didn't make a tu quoque accusation; he just Captain-Obvioused the special-pleading argument CC used to try to defend his earlier unhistorical claim.
The point of this thread is to condemn the suppression of historical facts on the altar of some politically preferred narrative. It makes little difference whether the perpetrators are conservative politicians enacting gag rules, or progressive academics choosing curricula, or random internet commenters propagating widespread noble-savage memes, or other random internet commenters writing trumped-up ad hominems about the motives of whichever guy presumes to correct one of the historical misrepresentations their ideology likes.