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Reply to "This fact will shock you about American Slavery."

Originally Posted by Gilbakka:

Far from shocking, yuji.

If you read world history you will learn that many societies evolved from a free primitive state to slavery to feudalism to capitalism.

In ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, white people enslaved fellow white people.

American history up to 1865 was also marked by slavery as the dominant political socio-economic system in the southern states. Freed blacks owned black slaves because the laws permitted it and the economic system facilitated it.

We must not judge past societies by modern-day yardsticks.

 

Gil

 

I am quite familiar with History but it appears that this is a dark secret kept far away from the history books.

 

All forms of slavery was horrible.

 

Even though indentured, our foreparts from Guyana were treated no less than slaves by the British.

FM
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