[FrdmLvr]

Before JAMESTOWN!!!??? It’s absurd to claim America was involved in slavery before it was even a colony! The whole world has been involved in slavery since practically the beginning of time! And not only Africans were slaves. History Channel? 🙄

[Robert357]

Such ignorance is beyond belief.

The Native Americans along the Salish Sea and elsewhere in what is now the USA captured and used slaves long before the 1600’s. Sometimes they even killed slaves during a potlatch as a display of wealth.

But it was those evil English that founded this country on slavery (and later became abolitionists) who bear the guilt and shame of this country. Nahh.

[myerson]

Humans have been voluntarily “enslaving” (please define) themselves to others for millennia, in exchange for food, shelter and protection. They still are in one form or another.

[myerson]

Humans have been voluntarily “enslaving” (please define) themselves to others for millennia, in exchange for food, shelter and protection. They still are in one form or another.

[ealgeone]

Kinda hard for this to be America for the simple reason....America was not a country at the time.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

America? I thought America was founded in 1776. Every slave owned in the Colonies before 1776 was owned by an Englishman. What is this crap about “America”?

[Gay State Conservative]

I quite frankly am not even slightly interested to know the details of slavery in North America. What I *am* interested in,and pleased by,is that slavery was outlawed here almost 200 years ago and that the ancestors of those slaves have opportunities in the current day United States that their distant cousins in Africa would sell their souls to enjoy.

[PIF]

America was not created until 160 years later.

The first slaves were “native” Indians and no one knows how far back that goes.

[KosmicKitty]

How about the “Native Americans” who enslaved other “Native Americans?”

[Verginius Rufus]

What we should be celebrating in 2019 is the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Virginia House of Burgesses--the beginning of representative government in the New World. Americans later showed the world that it is possible to have a successful republican form of government, without an aristocracy and without an established church. That has been of immense benefit to the world as other countries followed our example.

Slavery had been practiced for thousands of years around the world. The word "slave" in English reflects the fact that so many Slavs were enslaved in the Middle Ages...most of them probably ending up as slaves in the Muslim world. If the topic is slavery it should be about ending slavery where it still exists today, not guilt-tripping white Americans because some white Americans were slaveowners long ago.

One of my ancestors signed a petition in 1779 supporting a bill for religious freedom in Virginia. I think that is more important than whether or not he owned any slaves.

[familyop]

"Slave traders forced the captives to march several hundred miles to the coast to board the San Juan Bautista, one of at least 36 transatlantic Portuguese and Spanish slave ships."

African slave traders who lived near the Equator.

[familyop]

Slavery is common in the Congo today.

[tbw2]

According to “Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865,” by Tony Seybert, “Most Native American tribal groups practiced some form of slavery before the European introduction of African slavery into North America.”

The paper itself
Slavery and Native Americans in British North America and the United States: 1600 to 1865 by Tony Seybert
https://mmslibrary.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/slavery-and-native-americans-in-british-north-america-and-the-united-states.pdf