Questions About Watching You Slave

Mandy asks…

Do anyone know any good slave movies?

i'm in the mood for watching slave movies..
or old movies about blacks struggle :/


I've already seen color purple roots beloved
umm the movie with the first black woman who got the electric chair the color of friendship mama flora[sp] Jane Pittman biography idk what else.
but if you know some good ones please do tell :D
true stories are good too..
omg i just looked at what i wrote "do anyone" i meant does anyone sorry for the typo :/

admin answers:

Watch Glory, it's a phenomenal film.

Http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/

Also, Amistad: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118607/

You can check out Blood Diamond: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0450259/ It takes place in Africa, but is a great action/adventure movie that deals with slaves being used to mine diamonds. GREAT film.


Devlin B.

Richard asks…

Guys Should I be worried if my boyfriend watches teen slave porn?

The other day I woke up at 2am and my boyfriend was on the computer. When I asked him what he was doing he said checking his mail. I not a prude or any thing I know guys watch porn. The reason I'm worried this really nasty like rape and torture of teens I've got two teen daughter in the house. I've never seen such nasty porn before It looked like killing these girls. tears and all torture devises Please I not looking for you be mean just your ideas

admin answers:

As i guy i think you shouldn't be too worried unless he gives you a better reason to be. The fact that he tried to hide it kinda shows he's embarrassed by it.
Also you have to remember that the torture in the video wasn't real because that would be illegal :)

Sandra asks…

DO you ever tease your love slave, just to watch them squirm?

It's fun, they have to stroke, but I hardly will touch them and when I do they cry they are so happy, but I say no thrusting, but they do and so I stop. Mean, huh?

admin answers:

So mean but a true pleasure P&P :-)

Joseph asks…

How do you think slavery would have been handled without the Civil War?

I think it would have happened a bit later, but more peacefully and it wouldn't have had the lasting bitter resentment and racism.

Two main arguments could have been used. I know someone must have come up with these, because there were plenty of brilliant politicians at the time, and I'm just a 15-year old nerd. Anyway, the arguments are economic and then cultural.

Economic: You have to spend a lot of time training a slave, breaking his will, hiring overseers to watch the slaves, hiring people to guard the slaves, catching the slaves when they run away, and so on. Also, slaves will deliberately break equipment and won't work as well as higher hands.

Cultural: You could play off the racism there. Go to some big town with a plantation owner, and point out all the unemployed white guys that could be doing jobs held by black slaves, for one. I don't agree with that statement, but it could be used for an argument.

What do you think?
I know the Civil War wasn't about slavery.

However, slavery played a big role and the Emancipation Proclomation and the 13th amendment came up during that time.

admin answers:

I have to say that this is speculation , so nobody is right or wrong...and perhaps it's a reflection of one's hopes and biases as well!

First of all,are those two arguments the reason slavery ended peacefully in other slave-holding societies? That would be interesting to find out.

The first argument is an interesting one...it's actually an inversion of an argument made by the most articulate supporter of slavery, George Fitzhugh (Spelling) who argued in favor of slavery by saying " look we take care of the slaves, make sure they are healthy"...while you snobby northerners hire your workes, don't care if they have home, a livable wage and just dispose of them when they get sick and hire the next guy, etc..

But Anyways, I think the main argument given for ending slavery would not have been either of those...First of all, if your economic arguments were true, then why didn't slavery end earlier? Why didn't the business owners slowly convert to a free labor system? Furthermore, I think that costs you mentioned held true for early industrialization as well, I mean you have to spend time training workers, slave or not a slave, and back then factories had to hire overseers and even pinkerton guards to keep workers and unions in check...and lots of productivity loss due to the reasons described by Fitzhugh...So I think even with all those costs it was still profitable, which is why continued for so long.

So , in the end, I think the main argument for ending slavery would have been the same argument that brought about the end of jim crow laws in the south, apartheid in south africa...and the totalitarian regimes throughout the world, and that is justice...morality...in short "doing what's right"...and crucially through popular movements from below that became morally outraged with the order of things

But that's not to say that economic arguments didn't have an impact and that they weren't there...so I am absolutely positive that some white elites in South Africa thought "oh let's give blacks their civil and political rights" because we are losing tons of money with the international embargo against us...okay but why did that embargo have such force? Because the peoples of the world forced the world's governments to recognize their moral indignation and thus act in a moral way. So morality was the basis of it all...

So, going back to the case of slavery, my hunch is that the abolitionists' moral argument would have been the determinative factor in ending slavery...and any economic arguments by elites would have flowed from those very costs imposed by a morally outraged public (boycotts, embargoes, civil disobedience etc.)...and also boycotts from other countries as well (abolitionism , after all, was international in scope)

At least that's my hope

Anyways, best of luck. Thanks for reading.

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