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2018-07-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

Slavery: What They Didn't Teach in My High School

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-07-13 05:11|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Yep and Brazil ended slavery without killing 750,000 of their fellow citizens

Posted by Flilet Omeremble3846 2018-07-13 06:53|| 2018-07-13 06:53|| Front Page Top

#2 and Brazilian women also seem to have that nice rump.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-07-13 09:25|| 2018-07-13 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 One big difference is that non-African slave trade is forgotten because skin colors blend in with the native population. Not so quickly with African slaves. Therefore it's easier to forget.

All this is another reason the left prefers a filtered, approved education.

Posted by gorb 2018-07-13 10:01|| 2018-07-13 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 And now let's discuss the enslavement of Slavs by the Turks, Arabs, Germans, Mongols etc.

A phenomenon which continued well into the Twentieth Century.

The same people who are now stereotyped as mafiya and democracy hackers.

Posted by charger 2018-07-13 12:12|| 2018-07-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

#5 As a historian I have a couple of comments:

1) Arab slavers began taking slaves out of Africa beginning in the ninth century - centuries before the European slave trade - and continued well after.
It is still continuing today.

2) Arab slave traders were primarily interested black women for the harems. Male slaves were a "special order item." Excess males were killed, and "special order" males were castrated and frequently died on the march north.

3)The Atlantic slave trade was a godsend for black slaves, as Western buyers mostly wanted men to work the plantations. Instead of being executed, males were sent to the West African ports to be sold.

4) The North American slave trade had 2 unusual characteristics:
4a)American slaves lived at least 4 times as long as slaves in other places.
4b)American slaves formed families. Something almost impossible in other countries.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2018-07-13 13:25|| 2018-07-13 13:25|| Front Page Top

#6 and where did the term "Slavs" come from..... seriously

Posted by 746 2018-07-13 14:04|| 2018-07-13 14:04|| Front Page Top

#7 "Slave" may have come from "Slav".

There's some scholarly debate about that.

Even if it's proven to be the case, it doesn't fit the narrative of how only evil white people can be racists or enslavers; so it will be studiously ignored.

Posted by charger 2018-07-13 14:33|| 2018-07-13 14:33|| Front Page Top

#8 And weren't there Irish and Scots as slaves in the Caribbean?

Posted by Clem 2018-07-13 18:06|| 2018-07-13 18:06|| Front Page Top

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