Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Glenn Beck defends book that claims whites were the ‘worst victims’ of American slavery

www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/16/glenn-beck-defends-book-that-claims-whites-were-the-worst-victims-of-american-slavery/
"In the The 5000 Year Leap, Skousen tells the “story of slavery” by quoting historian Fred Albert Shannon at length. The quotations claim that white boys envied the freedom of black slave children and describe newly sold slaves as “a cheerful lot.”
The book also claims that abolitionists spread false rumors about the mistreatment of black slaves, and it states that “slave owners were the worst victims of the system"."