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Originally Posted by lostalex
OMG, are you honestly comparing "slavery" in the native tribes, to Institutional slavery, and the Slave TRADE, the HUGE INDUSTRY that was colonial slavery.
I'm sorry, but i feel you are being disingenuous. There is no comparison. You are distracting from the issue you know that i am talking about. I am talking about the SLAVE TRADE.
To compare the slavery that was an integral part of European colonialism and was a BILLION DOLLAr INDUSTRY to the slavery that may or may not have existed in tribal native american culture is ridiculous and disingenuous. IMHO.
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No thats not what i am doing at all.
Merely correcting you on your inaccuracies.
Its not a question of it may or may not having existed in native american cultures. it did exist FACT.
You led the thread astray with the assertion that financial aid to India etc was fair and due recompense for the slave trade, stating that ALL slavery in the Americas was down to the Europeans. That is factually incorrect. I corrected you.
I note with great amusement you didnt include slavery in Meso American cultures in your last post. Or that slavery also existed in the cultures of Africa itself before the European involvement.
Yes Europeans colonists did use slavery, in a big way. Where did we learn it? Slavery was used all through history, going all the way back to Mesopotamian and probably earlier cultures. Its a human thing not a European thing.
So climb down off your soap box, calm down and keep taking the tablets.
I know you like trying to browbeat the Europeans and the British in particular but you really do need to sit down with a therapist and work out this inferiority complex you have and hopefully deal with your insecurities.
Now can this thread return to topic?