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.
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.
What you call whataboutism is simply pointing out your lib hypocrisy.
I know. But did not sustain for a full blown workforce for servitude like they did the Africans. Indenture servants were free after a set number of years. The Africans were slaves for life in most cases.
If you are talking about the Africans selling their war captives to the slave traders yeah I know all about that. That never been a secret. Where have you been? The Boneman and I have been talking about this for 2 days now.
That's a legitimate question. I don't know how the criminal justice system in Europe operated in the 16-18th centuries. My guess was there probably wasn't enough supply to meet demand, Also, Africans had already set up a system of enslaving the defeated tribes that they captured, so there was already somewhat of a system in place, it then just become an economic exchange.
He obviously has been immersed in some connections we don't understand or could leap to that thought over teh chasm that has an infinite width. Trying to explain how slavery came about and still does or trying to show that it has went on for thousands of years and is currently going on with all races involved is met with a "yeah, but..."
The point was that the white supremists in England abolished slavery but African countries continued to allow it. How can that be explained ?
That's easy. The white supremacists in the US, the Caribbean, and South America did not obviously, and the demand for slaves obviously continued. They are the ones that continued to allow it. It's not hard.
No, not at all. What I'm saying is that racism wasn't the main driver of the transatlantic slave trade as you seem to believe.
Europeans largely stopped enslaving their own people due to a combination of factors including the rise of nation-states with more centralized power, the development of a relatively equal balance of power between European nations, the emergence of alternative labor systems like serfdom, and the growing influence of Christian values that viewed enslavement of fellow Christians as morally wrong, making it increasingly impractical to enslave people within their own societies.
First of all, Christian values says that enslaving ALL humans is morally wrong. But if the Europeans actually believed that it was wrong to enslave other Christians then you just proved my point. Plus the fact that white supremacy is in full swing, and enslaving mostly the Africans was a logical solution.
why didn't the settlers and plantation owners enslave the Indians (Native Americans)?
Jesus told parables about slaves but did not explicitly state that slavery is wrong as far as I know. How can that be explained?
