Slavery had been prevelant in Africa for centuries before European traders arrived.
The trans-Saharan slave trade, in which Muslins traders sold sub-Saharin Africans into North Africa and the Middle East, was far worse than the trans-Atlantic slave trade that Westerners fixate on.
The truth is, slavery is the rule (even today), while freedom is a fleeting exception.
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Comments pointing this out are kind off imho and completely miss the point.
The Atlantic slave trade in the americas was more about production than the Saharan slave trade. It was about finding the cheapest labor to boost profits from plantation style farming. The Atlantic slave trade was mostly about industrial slavery, an obvious precursor to factory style production.
Plantation style farming of course coming about around the same time that industrial capitalism started coming together in England and they exported some of this to their slave holding colonies and to the America’s.
The two slave trades are different even though they had similarities. They were both horrible, comparing slaveries with the goal of figuring out which was worse is a bit of a logical fallacy and ridiculous.
Similar to how an African slave in the North in the US had a different experience than the ones on a plantation in the US South. It doesn’t mean one experience was worse than the other, they were just different.
The point isn't to find which is worse, but to slay the fallacy that slavery = american slave trade when in fact it is a permanent fixture of human society.
The point is that American slavery had some big differences and heavily contributed to the strength of the American empire which ended up kind of running the world post World War Two. Which is why people talk about it so much, I don’t recall the Arab slavers establishing world dominating empire and carrying a lot of those methods and concepts forward, yet.
And saying it’s permanent makes it sound like it had monolithic characteristics and not affected by historical events, but don’t mind me.
Imagine trying to make the point that the Saharan slave trade wasn't ALSO about sourcing the cheapest labor
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1. Slaves are not free: the require food, water, and shelter.
2. Therefor, every slaver in history took on slaves believing they would get a return on said food, water, and shelter.
3. Slavery that doesn't follow the above criteria, for example in death labor camps, is actually called genocide.
I think you need to look at what you wrote here and expand the category of Genocide to American slavery because it fits your stated definition. There were plenty of death labor camps during American slavery and Native American slavery.
Sure, as there were death labor camps in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia.
Genocide is also a permant fixture of human societies.
but but if you point that out their little bailey is not so important and they will attack you for that.
Little bailey?
manipulation technique based on a logical fallacy called "motte and bailey". always constructed in similar ways as "antifascist".
how could you not be against the nazis? then you must be for
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy
the bailey is the real position, which is in fact - in the case of antifascism, communism. the thing they hold up in its place to argue about is fighting nazis.
same applies to the antislavery, because what they are really defending is bankster slavery (most of them don't even know it) and they present their pet strawman, slavery of africans by white (ie german and english) people. you can't even break through the fact that they never talk about the pale skinned slaves who were almost as common, the irish.
slavery is how psychopaths relate to non-psychopaths, that's why it's everywhere.
everywhere the psychopath is absent, so is slavery, and you find freedom.
number one way to get more freedom is to ditch the people who have enslaved you.
there's no slave catchers out there, just more slave masters hoping you fall for the tricks they know of how to catch you.
