N.B This is an open minded topic and should in no way be regarded as a racial debate.
Most of the American slave-ships and American slave-markets were run by Jews. But no one blames modern Jews. Because if anyone today says anything was run by Jews, they're immediately dismissed as a crazy anti-Semite, regardless of whether or not it's true.
All races kept slaves all throughout history.
When the Trans-Atlantic slave-ships docked at African slave-markets to buy slaves, they bought slaves who were already slaves. It was Arab Muslims and Black Africans themselves who captured members of rival tribes and took them to the coastal slave-markets to sell to the Whites and Jews. White people didn't go into Africa and kidnap free black people. They barely needed to get off their ships to buy slaves, it was like buying McDonald's at a drive-through. The slaves were already at the slave-market in chains, ready to go.
In the 16th-18th centuries, Africans enslaved 1.5 million White Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade. African Muslims raided up the coastlines of Europe, particularly the British Isles but even as far as Iceland, kidnapping and enslaving White European Christians. The men were galley slaves, and the women were sex slaves. This was more brutal than working on a plantation or as a domestic servant.
Native Americans and Jews owned Black slaves too, but no one seems to assign a collective guilt to modern Native Americans and Jews for their slavery. In fact, Jews were the biggest slave-owners in America per capita.
Whites were the first people to stop slavery in modern times, whereas slavery still continues in Africa to this day. In Mauritania slavery was only made a punishable offense in 2007! Less than 2% of Whites in America ever owned slaves. Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S. Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don't look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners.
White people were responsible for slavery in the same way that someone who smoked Pall Mall cigarettes for a few years is responsible for the entire tobacco industry. Yes the Pall Mall smoker bought Pall Mall cigarettes from a shop at the end of the process, but they didn't grow all the tobacco, harvest it, roll the cigarettes and distribute them to the shops.
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I need constructive comments for, or against what this white dude said about slavery. In my opinion he was right with some of the points, but i don't think its enough for him to say white people were enslaved by blacks.
Most of the American slave-ships and American slave-markets were run by Jews. But no one blames modern Jews. Because if anyone today says anything was run by Jews, they're immediately dismissed as a crazy anti-Semite, regardless of whether or not it's true.
All races kept slaves all throughout history.
When the Trans-Atlantic slave-ships docked at African slave-markets to buy slaves, they bought slaves who were already slaves. It was Arab Muslims and Black Africans themselves who captured members of rival tribes and took them to the coastal slave-markets to sell to the Whites and Jews. White people didn't go into Africa and kidnap free black people. They barely needed to get off their ships to buy slaves, it was like buying McDonald's at a drive-through. The slaves were already at the slave-market in chains, ready to go.
In the 16th-18th centuries, Africans enslaved 1.5 million White Europeans in the Barbary Slave Trade. African Muslims raided up the coastlines of Europe, particularly the British Isles but even as far as Iceland, kidnapping and enslaving White European Christians. The men were galley slaves, and the women were sex slaves. This was more brutal than working on a plantation or as a domestic servant.
Native Americans and Jews owned Black slaves too, but no one seems to assign a collective guilt to modern Native Americans and Jews for their slavery. In fact, Jews were the biggest slave-owners in America per capita.
Whites were the first people to stop slavery in modern times, whereas slavery still continues in Africa to this day. In Mauritania slavery was only made a punishable offense in 2007! Less than 2% of Whites in America ever owned slaves. Only 5% of the black slaves transported across the Atlantic actually went to the modern U.S. Most in fact went to Latin America to serve Hispanic slave-owners. But we don't look at modern Hispanics as evil slave-owners.
White people were responsible for slavery in the same way that someone who smoked Pall Mall cigarettes for a few years is responsible for the entire tobacco industry. Yes the Pall Mall smoker bought Pall Mall cigarettes from a shop at the end of the process, but they didn't grow all the tobacco, harvest it, roll the cigarettes and distribute them to the shops.
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I need constructive comments for, or against what this white dude said about slavery. In my opinion he was right with some of the points, but i don't think its enough for him to say white people were enslaved by blacks.
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