I never realized that "love each other" and "take care of the poor" were all that hard to understand.

I've always thought you could find something somewhere in the Bible to support just about any argument you want to proselytize. My Daddy taught me that throughout human history, more crimes have been committed in the name of god than for any other reason.

I think King Henry VIII wanted a divorce from his dead brother's widow so he could marry his ex-lover's sister. But apart from that minor error, cool video.

You know, I think the Catholic church was okay with Henry marrying his dead brother’s widow…it just wasn’t okay with him divorcing her to marry Anne Boleyn.

I was born in and have lived most of my 75 years in Tennessee. Trae Crowder is absolutely right about religion in the south. I was brainwashed as a child during the 1950s and early '60s but was drafted in 1967. There were no black or Latino students in my Nashville public schools from grades 1-12. Suddenly I'm sharing a barracks with young black men from Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, etc, and I had to find a way to deal with it. I found that it wasn't hard to get along with others who were not like you and the US Army sent me off to combat in Vietnam in 1968. I somehow survived that (still find it hard to believe) and met (get this) an ATHEIST in a foxhole! Cowles was a yankee from Michigan who took care of the men in his squad, was fearless in firefights and derived much pleasure from mocking "Jesus Freaks" like me. I wondered why everyone at church had assured me that there were NO atheists in foxholes. I came home, started college and married my pastor's daughter. I took lots of bible classes at the Southern Baptist affiliated college and was very surprised at what the Old as well as the New & Improved Testaments actually said. Marriage to the preacher's daughter turned out to be anything but heavenly. Everything reached a point where I was forced to (gasp!) QUESTION MY BASIC ASSUMPTIONS! I did that around age 30. I didn't lose my faith, I threw it in the trash. I have been without a religious rudder in my life for about 45 years now and I don't miss ANYTHING about it. I don't commit crimes, I have PTSD from combat but I'm not addicted to alcohol or drugs, I don't have thoughts about harming myself or others...the list goes on. I'm not perfect but I'm doing just fine without Jesus at the wheel. Ya'll be kind to each other out there and we will get through this.

I was under the impression that it was the Church of England that drove the creators of the Constitution to put the separation of church and state in the first amendment. Church and state is a terrible combo and sometimes I think the current Christian nationalist movement is all about overriding that.

"In truth, there was only one Christian and he died on the cross." - Friedrich Nietzsche "What I have said respecting and against religion, I mean strictly to apply to the slaveholding religion of this land, and with no possible reference to Christianity proper; for, between the Christianity of this land, and the Christianity of Christ, I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of the one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other. I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity." - Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Thank you, Trae! I am a fellow Southerner and I was raised Southern Baptist. Although I have known real Christians such as the Carters and others, as an adult, I recognized the massive hypocrisy and grift within this Religion and abandoned it, and other religions altogether. Now I am Free to Love thy Neighbor without the BS!

There were a lot of secular people in the civil rights movement. They are often ignored. The countries with the highest standards of living, who treat their citizens the best, are the least religious.

For all the church going and talking about Jesus these folks have been doing, they missed the boat, got lost, failed the test. To keep it simple, breaking out the crayons, there are the two great commandments, love God and love each other. The Venn diagram of their behaviors and those commandments: two circles, no intersection. They need to go back to Sunday School! Love these, Trae! 💜✌️😎🍀

I'm was raised a 5th generation Southern Baptist. My great-great-grandparents homesteaded in Georgia. My great-grandparents Homesteaded in East Texas. My grandparents homesteaded in the Texas panhandle. My grandmother had been wounded in world war 1. Wounded veterans got first homestead rights. The Southern Baptist convention split from the national Baptist convention because the Southern Baptist convention supported slavery. When I was a kid there were still businesses that had three bathrooms. One bathroom for men. One bathroom for women. The third bathroom was for black women and black men. My grandmother and my mother did not support slavery or segregation. as a kid did not support. My mother and my grandmother who happened to be my mother's stepmother, did not believe in calling black people the n-word. They told me why slavery and discrimination were wrong. What they told me all of this very quietly. You have to remember that women weren't even allowed to have their own credit cards back then. A woman had to get the signature of her father or her husband in order to get a loan or to get a credit card. The power structure was strict and oppressive. So my mother and my grandmother never actually their opinion against segregation in front of any of the male relatives. The black churches that were Baptist Churches where in favor of civil rights. I knew of no white Baptist churches that were not segregated and were in favor of Z Civil rights. The civil rights movement did start in Baptist Churches and Methodist Episcopal churches, but it did not start in the white Baptist churches.

The Bible isn't complicated in the South because so few people actually know what the Bible says. Most of them know a few verses, nothing more. If you showed them a lot of what's in there they would be shocked. It's religion itself that's complicated, because people use it in so many different ways. And people use God and Jesus as a club to beat others over the head with.

Martin Luther started this trend towards a personal reading of the Bible. Once I was in a conversation with a fundamentalist about the phrase "gift of tongues" and tried to explain that it meant the apostles could easily learn languages of foreign countries to spread the word of Christ but the person insisted that it meant speaking the language of God, which nobody understands but God and that person and which everybody else heard as gibberish. Another one is that faith alone is all that is necessary, despite Christ's own emphasis on works and St. Paul in Corinthians saying that if all you have is faith, you are but a hollow gong. While I live here, I try to leave the fundamentalists alone.

I guess it's a matter of location. In 1953, my mother's sister was widowed. The loss had such an effect on her that she became a pentecostal. From then on the entire clan treated her as though she was mentally insane.

All Y'all have to do is remember the GOLDE RULE - "Don't Do as I Do, Do as I Say!" (The old "Do onto others as......!" is way too Woke)

My family moved from upstate NY to Memphis, TN when I was 4. (I’m 68 now) my dad quickly discovered that the Baptists he grew up with in Utica NY were a lot different from the ones he encountered down South. We moved to the Episcopal Church where he encountered Indigenous Southern Liberals and felt much more at home.

Thanks. As a northerner who was an atheist for my first forty years, I have wondered about southern Christianity and the history of Conservative Christianity. You explained it all in under five minutes. God bless you.

“imagine getting a substitute teacher…”. Sounds like Florida and the personal benefits experienced by the enslaved.

I love these new vids you're doing, Trae. I hope I don't miss any. I don't know how to recognize them yet. Several times I've clicked on a random interesting title only to be pleasantly surprised when you popped up! Love all the info you provide.

I heard the local Methodist pastor's wife railing against socialism at the diner she manages. I told her the ideas expressed in socialism are how Jesus Chist told us to live , her response was that we shouldn't force that on everyone.

I agree with most of this--The biggest problem with the Bible in Southern Protestant religions is how to cherry pick quotes you use to bully, lie and steal while somehow ignoring any references to compassion and kindness.

Being a Southern Baptist I always heard some interesting history about religion in the South where up North the Catholic Church was pretty good about setting up seminaries and sending young people to study to be priests. In the South they were very slow to set up that infrastructure. Sometimes too local communities would gather up funds to send a local guy to seminary up North or even overseas to study and then supposedly to come back to be a priest in the community, but often they'd go to the big city and just decide not to go back. This sort of set up that Southern Dynamic though where Baptists thrived because there became an open hostility to "book learning" which basically meant going to study in seminary, and that Southern Baptists didn't need to go and study religion, they just got a "calling" and god spoke to them directly. This was one thing that led to that Southern tradition that you could either have "book learning" or "horse (common) sense" but somehow the two were so incompatable that they couldn't exist in the same brain. That book learning somehow pushed out all the common sense in someone's brain.

Born in KY, Pa was a Pentacostal preacher on the weekend and a career soldier during the week. Was taken to a snake handling church at about age 5, and I thank the Lord my dad was afraid of snakes. There are a number of things I love about the south; bigotry and prejudices are not among them.

You can't use facts on anyone who uses a bible as cover for their hate

The kind of Bible-thumpers who insist that Jesus was too damned woke. “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left. “Then the king will say to those at his right hand, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink? And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and gave you clothing? And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?’ And the king will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.’ “Then he will say to those at his left hand, ‘You that are accursed, depart from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ Then they also will answer, ‘Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care of you?’ Then he will answer them, ‘Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” -- Matthew 25:31-46, NRSV

Everybody in the south wants to go to heaven for the same reasons why they want to go to Florida. They think the weather is nice and most of the relatives are going to be there.

The golden rule - He who has the gold makes the rules.

Martin Luther: We don't need a priest to stand between us and God. We're capable of reading the Bible and understanding God's Word and Will. Virginia to black churches: F that! We're going to tell you what God wants.

I am Episcopalian and I went to a Baptist service once and was shocked at how different it was. Episcopal service was very formal and quiet and the Baptist sermon was scary and full of how you were going to hell lol. So I think we are diverse 😂. This was a long time ago and only one Baptist service, so not sure how representative that was.

Me, a Northerner: Heh, look at those silly Southern traditions! I feel so snobby and enlightened! Trae: If you're a Northerner, before you get all snobby about being 'enlightened'-- Me: *how did he know?! Can he see me through the screen???* Trae: --the South has never had witch trials. Me: That's an excellent point and I am now appropriately chastened. My people have historically held beliefs just as silly as-- Trae: Yet. Me: This has been a roller-coaster.

Well said Trae👏

Let me explain American Christian conservatism to you: "If I like a scripture, it means what it says. If I don't like a scripture, then everyone else is taking it out of context."

00:56 That tracks. The south has lots of very independent folks who do not like being told what to do and what not to do,, so they rebel against that. Yup, thou shall not kill becomes thou shall kill. And anything not just like me is open season.

In my mind, there are two and only two Christian churches. Those that follow Matthew 25:31-46, and those that don't. Southern Baptists who cheer when refugees are sent away on busses so that someone else can take care of them are going to be in for the biggest shock on judgment day. The first part of verse 46 is in store for those people, and the latter for the people who took care of the refugees.

The pope was actually opposed to Henry divorcing his dead brother's widow (Catherine of Aragon). He did anyway and married Anne Boleyn. The pope excommunicated him so he effectively expelled the catholic church from England and founded the Church of England with himself at the head, thus bringing the protestant revolution to that country.

As a retired minister living in the South, I think you knocked this one out of the park. Thanks, Trae!

My parents pentacostal church was just a hair away from snake handling. We had people rolling and dancing around, speaking in tongues and some fake ass faith healing. I had to show my dad some videos debunking that shit, since still having the same deformity he had before was not enough proof to him that it wasn't real.....

Amen brotha

People in the South and in rural areas don't get it, but we Northern city folks love them. When we represent them in popular media, sure we rib them for some of their ways, but we also read into them a core of fundamental decency. You can look at "King of the Hill" or "The Beverly Hillbillies" or "Andy Griffith" really any show set in the South / rural America, you'll see what I mean: they're depicted as perhaps benignly foolish, but overall wonderful people. And the crowning example is Superman. Why did this alien with godlike powers turn out so decent? The complete explanation is, he was raised by farmers in a small town. That is all the explanation anyone needs; we all buy it. That is the respect we have for rural / Southern life. The one thing we Northern city types despise about the South and rural areas is the cruelty. You know it and I know it, rural America can be the most xenophobic and brutal place; it doesn't take much for these otherwise salt-of-the-earth people to turn into savages. THAT is the one actual problem we have. This is not to say that us Northern city folks are all perfect angels, but at least the non-bigots push back against the bigots.

Religiosity and intolerance increase proportionately.

Nobody needs a book and weekly meetings to be a decent person who contributes to human flourishing.

As a fellow southerner, the christianity is also based on most people not actually reading the bible. Religion just seems to be an excuse to hate and oppress people who are different.

Oh, shite, I think we're related. Hey, cuz. 🤪 I was born in a town of 5K in AR to Pentacostal parents. Thank the gods they moved back to the west coast. My family had moved there after WWII. After the inevitable 70's divorce I got raised as a flaming liberal.

Heck, Southern Baptists actually pretend Jesus was white...🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

... it wasn't to marry his dead brother's wife. The pope was fine with that bit. Henry VIII broke with the church because the pope wouldn't let him divorce his brother's widow after 20+ years of marriage, so he could marry his mistress/her servant... his second of six wives he would eventually marry, and the first of two he would have beheaded, in less than three years after marriage.

I don’t think I could ever leave the Southern Evangelical tradition. For its faults, though they outnumber the stars, I still believe the core tenants strongly enough that I want to make it a better place from within. Also, side note: I’m in a worship band that goes around our area playing different events at churches that want us, and I’ve promised our leader that if at any point snakes come out at our event, I’m out, and they’ll have to pick me up on the way home. I’ll still be sprinting the other direction with all my might.

Witch trials....hush now. That is one history lesson we don't want to remind them of.

One minor correction, if I may. In Genesis, Eve was tempted by the _serpent,_ a generic scaly thing. The idea of it specifically being a snake is popular conception.

I was wondering why this video popped up on my home page and a few seconds in I see the reason, Trae Crowder, good job Google.

Thank you for a detailed and informative video

Next Level, Trea. Keep it up.

Numbers 5 v21-30 describes how to get an abortion. Also known as the Ordeal of Bitter Water. Never forget to bring that up

Actually, there is a direct bible passage about accepting foreigners from Jesus himself.... love thy neighbor does work, but there are more specific passages dealing with this.

Very insightful and very accurate. It's amazing how alive the past really is in what we do and think today and that's a double-edged sword for us.

Best thing I’ve heard all year!

Those who can lead you to believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. After Voltaire.

Love the video. Technically snake handlers work with venomous snakes not poisonis ones.

Also, I know Trey was going for comedy by pinning Protestantism on Henry VIII, but he’s leaving out Martin Luther and John Calvin who were responsible for most of the obnoxious dogma we’re still dealing with today.

Jimmy and Rosalyn have been married for almost 80 years and worked hard for their fellow man until they went into hospice care together. You can't top that.

Another good one. Thank you!

"Snake handling only happens in some parts of Appalachia". Some rural parts of Arkansas: 👁👁

One thing I have noticed about far right evangelical preachers is the fact that they cherry pick the Old Testament further their agenda and completely ignore pretty much everything Christ said. Yet they still call themselves Christians.

Excellent commentary.

What humans call The Holy Bible is a Double-Edged Sword used to be for or against WHATEVER. Pro-Slavery...it's there, Anti-Slavery...also there. Trae, Keep doing what you do 👊🏾.

Trae, Trae, Trae. We love you to pieces (and even "like chicken"). However, you've got to check your historical facts before citing them. King Henry the eighth was already married to his dead brother's widow (Queen Catherine). What he wanted was to divorce HER and marry Anne Boleyn (who became the mother of the future Queen Elizabeth the first and whom Henry beheaded after she did not give him a male heir so he could then marry Jane Seymour). Facts. Good things.

Giving to a church is not real charity. Very little of that money goes to the needy outside of the congegation. Plus they're only giving in the hope of buying redemption, not really to help others. I know these people. Real empathy is hard to come by.

Loved it!

The kind of people that tried to stop Kevin Bacon from dancing 🤣🤣🤣YES very that…

Jimmy Carter = THE most underrated president EVER

I’m glad some people were able to coax some good out of Christianity, but any multibillion dollar industry using a guy literally nailed to a torture device as its logo has me running the other way

Great video. Good content.

It's complicated because they lack understanding. That's why schooling is so important to us all. Learning the meaning of words allows us to know when someone is lying about a subject or allows us to validate or reject their claims. It develops the ability to think analytically instead of having to rely on others explanations.

I would go to church more often if I knew a pastor vs. gorilla fight would be a part of the sermon. 🙂

It wasn’t just the English protestants. Continental europeans had a huge influence. If you look into the origin of the anabaptists (baptists, quakers, mennonites) you will uncover one of the craziest origin stories. The most interesting part begins with the usual cult stuff: polygamy, authoritarianism and delusions of grandeur-their leader in one particular city, thought he was the second Gideon-and ends with him getting his testicles nailed to the city gate by the Pope’s army. The cages they hung from the Munster church tower to display the rest of their executed leaders’ bodies, are still hanging there today! Not having a warm reception in most of Europe, their descendants emigrated to the USA where they were less likely to be persecuted. The original doctrines of pacifism and communal ownership of goods is complete absent from modern Baptists but still remains among Quakers and Mennonites. Imagine telling a southern baptist their ancestors were communists?

Nice,self explanatory ❤❤❤

I'm surprised and really excited to hear that Jimmy Carter made it through cancer! I did not know it was afraid to look.

I love your humor and commentary but I don't think you can leave Martin Luther out of the protestant origin story. It is puzzling for Chtistian Nationalist to claim our founding fathers were creating a Christian nation. Pentecostal, Evangelical and even Mormon theology grew from the 19th century revival movements. Love your neighbor is the message.

Well said Trae. 👏🏾

Excellent!

LOL, the south didn't have "Witch Trials" because the south is more than happy to skip the "Trial" part and go strait to the lynching.

Being from north Alabama. Being told that I was possessed by a demon, due to the fact I didn't agree with their parenting methods. I'm 44 years now, and I was correct about that opinion. All I know is that if I was possessed by a demon, then part of my mind, if not all of it. Would be like me doing a 2 week benzodiazapine binge. That's taking Xanax, Clonpin, Ativan, Valium, Liberium. You know? Those drugs that make you forget shit the next day, but don't give a damn about nothing when you're messed up. There is a reason they are prescribed to people that actually need them. Does those folks entirely different lol. I'm a person that wants Americans, and anyone else that lives in this nation, to be able to practice whatever religion they want. But when you start lying about what our founding fathers set out for this nation to be, which is secular. Lie about prayers being taken out of schools. Cause it hasn't! These evangelicals are upset because they can't force your children to be indoctrinated at 4, 5, and 6 years old. Where they can't tell the difference between reality and make believe. And when you try and weasel your way into politics in order to "Do God's work" and disrespect the constitution and our democracy like that. That's when I have a serious issue! My mom is 72 years old. And she is a die hard, bible believing, Jesus loving, God fearing old woman. But she hears people like Tucker Salisbury Steak Frozen Dinner Carlson say something like "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah!" She then believes we are in a blah blah blah situation. And when I try to show her how she's wrong, he's wrong? And all of yall are just juiced up with Communism propaganda from the time they were children, especially anyone born after WW2, up until the Satanic Panic of the early to the late 1980's.Thats when kids around my age and older realized marijuana was just cannabis, psychedelics can actually be helpful for mental health issues. And we played Dungeons and Dragons. (I'll be honest. I played Risk more than D&D. Lol) I stopped being religious when my mom pretty much told me that even if Jesus came back and said "To hell with you all! You bunch of burnt neck, slow talking former Brits. I'm just here to get these 250g's from ol Satan. We love to take on bets with each other " And I had more than enough of the necessary evidence anyone would need in order to show that nearly 90% of that book is horseshit. The other 10% is just basic geography and stories about the wealthy rulers that actually existed during Babylonia. Anyway! Believe anything you want. Idc! But when you get involved in politics and then start wanting to change the rules of basic human rights. You need to go on and stgdhu!

I think the CofE was created so Hank 8 (who was awarded “Defender of the Catholic Faith” for his tract Assertio Septem Sacramentorum by one of the Popes Clement a few years earlier) could divorce his dead brother’s wife (Kate of Aragon, mother of Bloody Mary) and marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn (his second mistress of that name {the first being Anne’s sister Mary} and mother of Lizzy 1).

While there may be a good reason there were no witch trials in the South, as these happened between February 1692 and May 1693. And likewise, the KKK had not a Northern beginning from another timeline. However, I'm sure we can agree that the irrationality of religious beliefs had a fundamental role in all the death and slavery that happened.

Very good video.

In some religions you can't shave your beard but you must be circumcised. If someone laid those laws down on me, I'd be like "you think maybe you got those two backwards, Moses? You think you can mosey back on up that hill and check with the Almighty." Unfortunately, back then they carved everything into those gravestone-looking tablets, so he'd be like, "Dang it, Charlie, I was carving as fast as I could so maybe I did get a few things a little off, but I'll be damned if I'm rewriting all this. Solid granite ain't got no edit function." Fortunately, I'm already circumcised so it wouldn't have mattered. At least, that's what I'd tell him.

"They love Jesus so much, they're mad about it."

once i saw your face, i knew i didn't have to make some outrageous comment about southern christians. you do a great job thanks.

I was raised Methodist in Kansas, we always said the Southern Baptists had Tails. For those who don’t speak Americana I was raised an Abolitionists. The “Tails” are Satin’s.

That book has been turned into the "root of all evil!" It's just a book of Mythology.

Well, they take a literal interpretation until they get to the Sermon on the Mount.

Thank you

I had always understood that, having originally persuaded the Pope to permit Henry 8 to marry Catherine of Aragon (the wife of his deceased brother, Arthur, the original heir to the throne), he subsequently tried to have the same Pope annul that same marriage for ‘scriptural/spiritual’ reasons. He claimed that his failure to sire a male child with Catherine (despite them having a daughter, Mary, together) was a manifestation of God’s disapproval of the union. This annulment would have cleared the way for Henry to marry Anne Boleyn as Wife No 2. However, the Pope refused and Henry split the English church from the Church of Rome thereby enabling him to divorce Catherine and marry Anne.

Religion, the bane of humanity!

Y'all ain't burned any witches...yet 😳

Excellent

Years ago, we used to see evangelicals proselytizing in New York. One would come up to me and ask, "Do you have a relationship with Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior?" I used to answer, "I can't! I'm Catholic!"

Buy-bull...

God welcomes people of all genders and sexual identities. “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:28) Also “…God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean.” (Acts 10:28) Jesus gladly socialized with people that the religious establishment disapproved of. (Matt 9:11) The Church needs its LGBTQ members. “The human body has many parts, but the many parts make up one whole body. So it is with the body of Christ. Some of us are Jews, some are Gentiles, some are slaves, and some are free. But we have all been baptized into one body by one Spirit, and we all share the same Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:12-13) The early church welcomed non-gender-conforming people. One of the first recorded baptisms by the apostles was of an Ethiopian eunuch. (Acts 8:27) Jesus warned against using anti-gay slurs. The NIV translation of Matt 5:22 reads “anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court”. The original Greek text does not include “sister”, and the word “raca” is most likely a transliteration of the Aramaic word “rakkah”, which is the feminine form of the adjective that means “to be tender, weak, or soft”, so this would be comparable to calling a man a “sissy” (or worse)

The ONLY reason the South never held witch trials is because when actual witch trials were a thing, the southern regions of this content were not well populated, and anyone who was there was an indigenous person or a very Catholic Spaniard or Frenchman.

1:20 slavery was tolerated by the Christian church from day one, and the European trade in African slaves was sanctioned by the Catholic church. "the only Christian area where agricultural slaves were economically important was the south of the Iberian peninsula, where slaves from wars with Muslims, both in the Reconquista and Christian attempts to expand into North Africa, had recently begun to be augmented with slaves taken from sub-Saharan Africa. Unfortunately, Spain and Portugal were the leaders in the Age of Discovery, and took their slave-making attitudes to their new territories in the Americas. The first African slaves arrived in the Spanish territory of Hispaniola in 1501."