The real history of slavery

[DDZ]

The truth about slavery. Its not what you hear today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UivhqdhcHNI

[Bob Riebe]

     
       There have been recently a fair number articles/videos saying how U.S. slavery was not new, nor were we the only countries with that type of slavery.  It does not make it less a very sad state of affairs but removes the U.S. as the only bogey man.

       A few years back there was a movie about a female warrior division in Africa,  - The Woman King - that helped their Kingdom defeat the enemy African tribe based on a true story  on a Kingdom in what became the country of Benin.
       Viola Davis played a major role in the movie (she truly busted her buttocks and got in shape). She said it was good to have a movie showing what women were capable of , but, also said she had many second thoughts about doing it  as, --  the tribe she represented, sold the defeated Africans into slavery, in the West,  for money.
       Probably why that movie did not get much blah, blah when it was released as Liberals could not brag it without looking like fools.

[moamonkey]

Slavery has happened since the dawn of man, and continues today. Americas part in this was quite small in relation.

[ironglowz]

Slavery has happened since the dawn of man, and continues today. Americas part in this was quite small in relation.

    That's one statement that actually requires a lengthy reply, which I am to "out of sorts" to undertake right now. But here's a short reply.

   At some time and at some place, every race, religion or ethnic group, were used as slaves.

   Conversely, at some time and in some place, every race, religion or ethnic group, were "colonized".

  So far as the transatlantic slave trade, one can see that the bulk of the transatlantic trade went to Central and South American, as well as the Caribbean.

    So, does that make it right for us?  No; but, keep in mind, we were not alone.  The slave trade has existed back into the mists of time, and many centuries before
   America was discovered, the trade from Africa to Arab countries, dwarfed the entire trade west.

   The males transported west were the lucky ones, since most males delivered to Arab countries were made into eunuchs.


 Keep in mind, Americans only dealt with slavery for 78 years !  .....Constitution signed 1787...Emancipation Proclamation issued 1865,The rest was with a different boss.