STANFORD, CA—Offering a concise explanation for the complex interaction of economic forces that gave rise to the widespread enslavement of Africans, a Black conservative scholar argued Wednesday that the transatlantic slave trade was the result of fatherlessness in the Black community. “The lack of strong role models…
STANFORD, CA—Offering a concise explanation for the complex interaction of economic forces that gave rise to the widespread enslavement of Africans, a Black conservative scholar argued Wednesday that the transatlantic slave trade was the result of fatherlessness in the Black community.
“The lack of strong role models and family values created a vacuum that allowed the slave trade to thrive,” said Lawrence Oldham, a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, explaining that single Black mothers were too busy working to keep their children out of the lifestyle that led to Africans being rounded up en masse, stowed as cargo on European boats, and shipped to the New World as slaves.
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