The Real History of Slavery
The Matt Walsh Show
The Matt Walsh Show
4.7 • 27.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For more than half a century, anti-American propagandists have waged a demoralization campaign against us. |
| 0:08.0 | Generations of Americans have been force-fed lies designed to beat us into a state of submission and self-loathing. |
| 0:15.0 | We've been taught to hate ourselves, to hate the West, and to hate the figures mostly white, mostly male, who built America. |
| 0:22.6 | We're all familiar with their narrative. |
| 0:24.6 | America is uniquely evil because of racism, slavery, colonialism, imperialism, and so on. |
| 0:30.6 | They've waged intellectual warfare against our founding fathers and national heroes. |
| 0:35.6 | They desecrated their reputations, tore down their statues. |
| 0:39.3 | Their rewriting of history as such flagrant propaganda |
| 0:42.3 | that would make Pravda blush. |
| 0:44.3 | That doesn't mean that it's not pervasive or successful. |
| 0:47.3 | One professor from the University of Wisconsin |
| 0:49.3 | spent 11 years administering historical literacy tests to his students. |
| 0:53.3 | He discovered that they overwhelmingly |
| 0:55.3 | believed that slavery began in the U.S. was almost exclusively an American phenomenon. A view shared, |
| 1:01.8 | by the way, with at least one United States senator who attended Harvard law. |
| 1:05.9 | The United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it. Despite almost total ignorance on the topic, one Washington Post poll found that a 67% majority |
| 1:15.4 | of the public says the legacy of slavery affects American society today. |
| 1:19.5 | That question every black person gets with just slavery was a long time ago, why don't |
| 1:23.2 | you get over it? How do you get over something that is as foundational to your society as anything |
| 1:28.6 | can be foundational? We've been told that the history of slavery is straightforward and |
| 1:33.7 | uncontroversial. We've been told that black slaves were mostly captured by whites, that white |
| 1:39.4 | colonists and the Americas routinely enslaved free black men, and that more black people were enslaved than whites. |
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