Purdue at Iowa: MASTER DISCUSSION THREAD
- By Purdue0023
- Boilermaker Men's Basketball
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Sandfort has been at Iowa so long his hair is turning gray. 
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As a student of history, you already know all of this about the history of slavery.Why didn’t the Europeans enslave European criminals? Much closer than Africa, don’t you think. Cheaper as they would not have to buy them. Then ship them over to the US.
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They did. Debtors prisons, indentured servants, etc.Why didn’t the Europeans enslave European criminals? Much closer than Africa, don’t you think. Cheaper as they would not have to buy them. Then ship them over to the US.
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Why didn’t the Europeans enslave European criminals? Much closer than Africa, don’t you think. Cheaper as they would not have to buy them. Then ship them over to the US.No, they're culpable, but had the labor been in the form of Chinese or Indians or (insert continent here), it wouldn't have made any difference. As 03 said, this was driven much more by economics than racism. Black Africans just happened to be the supply that met the demand at the time (mostly because it's a lot easier to sail from Europe to Africa than it is to Eastern Asia or India.) Look at a map....
WhattaboutwhattaboutwhattaboutwhattaboutwhattaboutCause RivetingSaysSoNever mind, I found it. Not the first racist to work in government, but his job is minor.
In contrast, I recall a racist who served not in a minor job, but as president until Jan. 20 this year. I would wager that you voted for that racist.
I never gave any implications that white Europeans invented slavery. Slavery has been around for thousands of years. What I did say that white Europeans did invent racism based on the pseudoscience of measuring skulls of blacks and whites in order to determine intelligence. During this time the concept of races, white, black, and Asian, of humans is born. Again, this is around the 16 and 17 centuries.You keep acting like white Europeans invented slavery. They did not.
If the white Europeans were so hell bent in enslaving black people, why did they even buy the black captives? Why didn't they just save the money and enslave them all?