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I don't understand your position on this. This is the first thread I've ever seen about African slavery and I've been here over a year.Oh please not a thread about Africans being the most persecuted. Please. Everyone has undergone persecution at some point, you want to bring up one group, what about the Native Americans? They had their land and heritage taken away, and they were put on reservations.
That's because it haven't been discussed that often.Sorry, I was not aware that this topic has been discussed that often on this board. :run:
Racial slavery did not come around until the U.S. colonies. Slavery has existed throughout history, and was never a racial thing until we in the U.S. got slaves from Africa (from the Portuguese.) When an Empire conquered another place, they took those they did not kill and made them slaves. In some areas, the slaves were eventually released and integrated into society. But, for some reason the U.S. couldn't grasp that fact. Since there were cheap slaves in Africa, we got them all from there. Then it developed into a racial thing.
Agreed.I don't understand your position on this. This is the first thread I've ever seen about African slavery and I've been here over a year. The way you're reacting one would think these type of threads pop up every week.
I suspect that as slavery became less and less acceptable, race became more and more important as a way to justify its continuance.
Did not the Arabs castrate their male slaves?In Arabia, there were Turkish slaves, blue eyed slaves, Omani (Arab) slaves, and African slaves. It wasn't really always connected to race. However this seems to be in the back of the mind of most people given the history of the US, and its strong presence in the world.
Also, slavery had a different connotation. When you say "slavery" people don't think "whips and chains" and people picking cotton. Abuse certainly existed I'm sure, however, many were considered like family. When slaves were freed, they stayed with their owners/family, and some have relations with them til this day, whether black or not.
Africans are not the only 1's that are victums. History leaves no one out of that catagory. Try finding 1 group of people who do not have a story to tell in that perspective. If you do-I would like to know!
white males. (waiting for the inevitable "but some people DO have prejudice against them, and in the ghetto they beat me up :'(" ...)
Well you responded yourself! What´s else to say!
Did not the Arabs castrate their male slaves?
The Turkish did, they wanted eunuchs to guard the women in harem.