Was slavery really that bad?

[tsuke]

Your "point" is ahistorical, also racist in tone and implication. In other words, a routine conservative contribution to the forum.

How is it ahistorical? The world isnt some disney bullshit you know. Jigaboos didnt live in harmony with the animals and each other before the white man came along. They were murdering each other like they was in Chicago.

[tsuke]

Slave masters in America beat and abused their slaves. If you're a slave and you happened to score a slave master who isn't "rapey" and beatey"? Sure, I guess it's possible.

Which is the same as Slave masters in africa but they had cheap sources of slaves nearby and could be more careless while americans had to import.

[Jarod]

There are hundreds of millions of Americans right now today that are slaves of their own making. Debt slaves, slaves to drugs ,booze, and alcohol. Slaves to silly wokeness. Whole lotta slaves in this country right now. Break those chains you put on yourself before its too late.

Slaves to poverty, slaves to their jobs, slaves to delusion, slaves to religious dogma…

But none of the above are slaves by direct authority to the law of the United States of America. None of the above are prevented by law to break free from their freedom.

[PostmodernProphet]

The people who were made slaves were going to be slaves no matter what.

then the question shouldn't have been "was slavery really that bad" (which was a really, really stupid question) but "which form of slavery is better; abusive or non abusive?" (still would have been a really, really stupid question).......

[PostmodernProphet]

Quote Originally Posted by martin View Post
The first error in this tripe concerning white "men" and black "folk" is the notion that blacks were sold into slavery. The vast majority were captured and kidnapped.

???....and then the people who captured and kidnapped them SOLD them........

[martin]

How is it ahistorical? The world isnt some disney bullshit you know. Jigaboos didnt live in harmony with the animals and each other before the white man came along. They were murdering each other like they was in Chicago.

I told you how in that first reply, and it is ahistorical in other ways. Whites, not only "jigaboos", were enslaved, including tens of thousands of whites enslaved in America taken mainly from England. Whites were enslaved in ancient Rome and Greece, when whites were murdering each other like they were in contemporary American school buildings.

[PostmodernProphet]

Whites were enslaved in ancient Rome and Greece, when whites were murdering each other like they were in contemporary American school buildings.

???....they had mass shooting in Greek schools?.....did any of Socrates students get shot?......

[martin]

???....and then the people who captured and kidnapped them SOLD them........

There was that, typically of Africans captured in battle between tribes or as punishment for crimes, as there was slave dealing of whites in Europe and the Ancient world. The American African slave trade relied as well on slave ships with raiding parties that went ashore to make captures. For the thousands of white slaves Americans acquired in England, we bought them.

[martin]

???....they had mass shooting in Greek schools?.....did any of Socrates students get shot?......

Not such a surprising question from you. Go back and re-read the post with the quoted part and you may see why it went over your head the first time.

[LurchAddams]

There are hundreds of millions of Americans right now today that are slaves of their own making. Debt slaves, slaves to drugs ,booze, and alcohol. Slaves to silly wokeness. Whole lotta slaves in this country right now. Break those chains you put on yourself before its too late.

There are a lot of Americans who are slaves to election fraud propaganda, authoritarianism, and white supremacy. They're called, "Republicans".

[PostmodernProphet]

There was that, typically of Africans captured in battle between tribes or as punishment for crimes, as there was slave dealing of whites in Europe and the Ancient world. The American African slave trade relied as well on slave ships with raiding parties that went ashore to make captures. For the thousands of white slaves Americans acquired in England, we bought them.

they were all bought by that point in time.......slavery was a profitable business for centuries.......the white slaves you are referring to were sent to penal colonies in Georgia, as well as Australia as "punishment" for crimes real or imagined because the British trading companies needed cheap labor.......

[AProudLefty]

IMO none of the major civilizations in the past could have done its advances that pushed human civilization forward without slavery or its equivalent.

Oh wow we have a regular Einstein over here!

[AProudLefty]

well my point was that it would have been much more preferable to be a slave in America rather than in Africa as the value add cost of bringing you from Africa to America meant your master valued you more due to your increased cost.

You're essentially arguing for open borders.

[AProudLefty]

???....they had mass shooting in Greek schools?.....did any of Socrates students get shot?......

Wow you cannot read. No wonder you think you're a real woman. Cope.

[AProudLefty]

then the question shouldn't have been "was slavery really that bad" (which was a really, really stupid question) but "which form of slavery is better; abusive or non abusive?" (still would have been a really, really stupid question).......

First rational post I have ever seen from you.