burtlancast
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You're suggesting I try something?
Yes, Tara.
I suggest you quit with your outrageous race baiting.
Slavery is as old as the world, has existed in every continent and been practiced by every culture. It's prime motive has always been economic.
That has never been in doubt.
It beggars belief to suggest, like you did, that somehow, Africans have been targeted/enslaved because white people just didn't like them.
Racism against Africans is world-wide systematic and extremely severe. The racism that continues in other parts of the world, including US, is still very involved with actual skin-colour: darker-skinned people tend to get targeted worse; lighter skinned people of colour can get closer to white-privilege .It's still heavily ingrained in white-dominant cultures. This has been a continuous theme since early slavery times. Africans and African-Europeans have been targeted by some severe racism in Europe too. Europe has in common with the US that it also historically built a good part of it's wealth and world dominance off the backs of enslaved Africans.
The word "Slavery" is derived from "Slavic" populations; Eastern Europe practiced slavery on their own population for thousands of years. Russia abolished serfdom in 1861 and gave the right to own land to their 6 millions sefs: that's a higher number than the entire American black slaves of that time ! (Russie, abolition de la servitude, 1861, Digithèque MJP)
I've yet to read Russian nobility practiced slavery because they hated their Slavic counterparts!
Anti slavery movements in America and the world were spearheaded by Christians, because of their moral doctrines ("equality of all human beings as good creatures made in God's image and likeness"-Augustine of Hippo". )
Those differ from the ones of the old testament, which went as far as establishing a different slavery code for Hebrews and non-Hebrews.
May i ask on which side do you stand, Tara ?
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