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To: ravager
No it wasn't.

You said slavery was the “gift of White people” post 25.

PapaBear3625 said “White people created the movement to abolish slavery worldwide. This upsets people like the Muslims, who regard slavery as an institution sanctioned by Allah.” post 60

You then said “In the US...yes. They started it, they ended it. Worldwide? That's stretching a little.” post 66

Abolition of slavery was not limited to these United States - and it's goal was and remains the worldwide abolition of slavery.

And no - slavery was not a “gift” of white people, and it is not a case that “they started it”.

Even in the Americas, where slavery was certainly not just limited to the slaves States of these United States - the slave stock was almost always purchased not acquired from free men. So they didn't “start” the slavery - they purchased people who were already in a condition of slavery. Not that that justified the unnatural injustice of holding people in slavery - but it certainly is not a case where the U.S.A. “started” slavery.

76 posted on 05/09/2013 2:15:16 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream; ravager
And no - slavery was not a “gift” of white people, and it is not a case that “they started it”.

Slavery is a by-product of pre-industrial agriculture. All early agricultural societies had it. The Incas and Mayans had it. The Chinese had it. India had it. What is the caste system, but a system ensuring that the people who did the work continued to do the work, with no hope of changing their condition?

81 posted on 05/09/2013 2:27:33 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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