• orphiebaby@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You almost have a well-made point, except that part of it sounds like you are low-key trying to blame black people specifically for the beginning of all slavery.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not blaming I’m just giving history summary.

      Beginning of slavery goes further back then US exist, It’s probably old as humankind itself. It was practised by Asians, one of first waves of settler in America (long before European arived there ) . African people had slaves for thousands of years. Hell there were European slaves in Africa back then. There used to be slave route going from Europe through Prague in Chechia, where European people had been castrated and taken into Africa while most of them didn’t survive the way. You heard about origin of word “Slavs” right ?

      But US slavery was indeed started by black people selling black people to white man for profit in Africa. White man didn’t want to go futher into Africa because at that time it meant almost sure dead by Malaria and other sickness. Look that up if you don’t believe it. There are both books and documentaries about it.