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Originally posted by kimish
reply to post by MrPlow
I think it's disgusting that Africans selling their own to the Europeans is left out of the history books. Is that not telling a half truth? yes or no.
And no one mentions the Arabs play in all of this. They were buying, selling, and trading black slaves before the first European stepped foot on the Continent.
slavery was not something wrought on the blacks by whites,
Originally posted by luciddream
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
No, i was pointing out that you try to say "hey! they are both the same" its just absurd.
They did it for different reason.
The Skin B type owning a Skin type B, knows the slaves is his skin type. Type A owning B is different.
One is worse than other because another race abusing another..less emotions involved when committing atrocities.
Similar to how Muslims are "less" human.edit on 7/17/2013 by luciddream because: (no reason given)
Do you agree they are the same?
you are going to go on the rest of your life blaming people today
They weren't "selling their own"…They were selling prisoners from other kingdoms.
Originally posted by buni11687
reply to post by UnifiedSerenity
The Irish seemed to be targeted the most. Cromwell hated the Irish Catholics for their rebellion against the crown, and he decimated the Irish Catholic population and made hundreds of thousands of them slaves which sold for 5 shillings.
I did a quick search and found some more info about the Irish slaves.
www.globalresearch.ca...
The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.
Originally posted by jadedANDcynical
They weren't "selling their own"…They were selling prisoners from other kingdoms.
Trying to have it both ways much?
Why does pointing out that there has been been slavery of other races than blacks equate to negating that? I never understood this stance.
Originally posted by luciddream
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
you are going to go on the rest of your life blaming people today
Not really about today, nor have i mentioned anything about blaming people today... where are you getting this from?
my discussion was that they are not the same like many here seems to say..different type of slavery.edit on 7/17/2013 by luciddream because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MrPlow
How convenient for you- telling half truths and all. Yes, their were blacks that were sold into slavery as a result of being on the losing side of war. That goes without saying. But the bulk were simply kidnapped from their families and brought to foreign lands to be traded and sold. Only because of their skin color and because they were viewed as uncivilized.
White supremacy was capitalized on in order to perpetuate this commodity.
But go on...your shattered ideas of reality are kind of entertaining.