FalseSense
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Eerie visualization showing a very accurate data depiction of the transatlantic slave trade.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade Animated In Less Than 5 Minutes (1600-1865)
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FalseSense
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It's informative & an accurate portrayal of an important historic event.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
What is it do you want to be discussed?
Other than the opening, there is no premise setup for us to talk about.
Like...
What caused it to originate and begin?
Who was responsible for the slave route?
Stuff like that.
A very graphic reminder that viruses aren't the only pestilence on this planet. Humans have a bit to answer for, as well.
BSM1
What? Me worry?
Individually or collectively....
It's instructive how the rise of widespread racism in European cultures followed the systematic enslavement of Africans. Prior to the beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade, there is little or no record in European writings of the notion that Africans are inferior to Europeans, that blacks are inferior to whites. That all gets started with the slave trade, most likely as a means of ideologically justifying its evil.
Many times in history, an ideology or morality has followed upon an economic development.
Many times in history, an ideology or morality has followed upon an economic development.
Often enough, both. There is no question that humans in groups can and do commit such acts as a large number of them would never do individually. And our cultures are, in the end, ours. So if slave traders (the vast majority of whom claimed to be Christians) could bank on human cultures to accept slavery, and if individual Christians thought it was quite fine to own and mistreat other human beings, then yes, both.
Care to provide links to history that your asserting? I can't find anything, for example on "Brittany Pirates".
May I suggest you are being unfair, @Super Universe? The man posted an OP on an internet forum. He should not be treated as if he were attempting to publish a comprehensive twelve volume opus on slavery. Your criticism of his OP boils down to (as you put it), "It's nice to pick and choose your history." That comment strikes me as tantamount to an unfair and unrealistic expectation that he write some kind of encyclopedia on slavery for you.
As I see it, what you just did to him would be exactly like me attacking your post for failing to mention the 24 million or so people currently enslaved in the world -- mostly in Southern and Southeastern Asia. Some of those people make the clothing many Americans (and others) wear. If I slammed you for not mentioning them in your post, I would be as unfair to you as you have been to @FalseSense.
Super Universe
Defender of God
Barbary Pirates.
Super Universe
Defender of God
You could have just posted about the 25 million or so enslaved people in the world today.
No post includes all of history, nor is it expected to. I was providing a different view.
This is a forum which is a place where different views are expressed, although that seems to bother you.
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Thanks. That clarifies your post.
Augustus
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It's actually significantly more than 'almost nothing', although it's not necessarily anything to do with the slave trade.
Given that much of Southern Europe has a far longer history as part of a Mediterranean civilisation than it does as part of a European one, this is hardly surprising.
Mike.Hester
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I hope I am following the rules. But the vast majority of slave trading was by Arab slave traders. England in the early 19th century abolished the slave trade and patrolled the seas. The slave trade to the US diminished sharply soon thereafter. But the Arab slave traders continued with sending slaves to South America. Modern slavery now takes on different forms which is primarily situated in Islamic countries.
Arab slave trade - Wikipedia
Arab slave trade - Wikipedia
Augustus
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Well they continued selling slaves to the Portuguese, Spanish, etc. who sent them to South America.
I agree with this point.