Transatlantic Slave Trade by The_Galaxy_Creator

The_Galaxy_Creator

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8th Feb 2021

8th Feb 2021

Long awaited, the next in my Remembrance saves. The total number of people enslaved during the 400 year long timespan was well into the tens of millions and comprised mostly those of African descent. Its effects still bleed into today. Don't unpause.

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  DovahZoriik 12th Feb 2021
  I hate how Southerners are always blamed for Slavery. JUST BECAUSE WERE SOUTHERN DOSENT MEAN WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO HAD SLAVES!!!!!!
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  Umm 12th Feb 2021
  Who knew that if you had the biggest navy you could spare ships to enforce blockades
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  JackX 11th Feb 2021
  Britain may not have been the first country to abolish the slave trade, but they were the only country to blockade north africa to prevent slave ships from leaving to the US
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  User5152552 11th Feb 2021
  no racism boils down to bigotry of the unkown
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  Umm 11th Feb 2021
  Racism boils down to people thinking someone else being a lower class, either due to less money, property, mental or physical abnormalities, or due to their skin color. That is the root cause of racism, thinking someone else is inferior due to them being different. But at the end of the day, most of us are capable of anything that anyone else could do. Blacks weren't also the only ones to be true slaves, but at the scale they were enslaved has been unmatched thus far.
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  dayday24 10th Feb 2021
  'Transatlantic Slave Trade inc.' Whose CEO looks strikingly similar to Kevin O'Leary from the hit ABC show Shark Tank.
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  The_Galaxy_Creator 10th Feb 2021
  The same could be said about other European empires. Yet, slavery on the scale of the TST cannot be observed. Even de facto forms of slavery, like indentured servitude, did not actually include the characteristic of owning someone else as legal property, merely their debt. Besides, what would then be the purpose of racism used to justify slavery if it was just about a difference in "class" or technology?
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  Umm 10th Feb 2021
  A difference in technology is the main cause of slavery in my opinion, as blacks didn't have the tech, manpower nor unification needed to resist anyone but themselves, and the upper classes of the blacks were more than willing to sell their own fellow citizens/people to not have to be enslaved themselves, and the money didn't hurt either.
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  The_Galaxy_Creator 10th Feb 2021
  Every institution has its functions and its justifications. You three are correct in accessing the function of slavery to be the procurement of profit, but no society would accept such a horrid institution based on this greed alone. If it were so possible, then they would have done it without the help of race sciences. So, to maintain it, slaveowners would justify it based on race. A difference in class may have been the end result, but only as a manifestation of slaverys segregation.
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  Goodels 10th Feb 2021
  i agree with umm as well, race means nothing, class is the ultamate divider