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To: Enlightened1

The reporter is honest enough to admit that slavery in America predated the nation’s founding by over 150 years.
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It was here long before that, and at an industrial level. Millennia, at least.


21 posted on 02/07/2020 6:35:35 AM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton
It was here long before that, and at an industrial level. Millennia, at least.

Exactly. The Spanish found slavery to be endemic in the new world.

Cannibalism was common, especially in meso-America.

29 posted on 02/07/2020 7:01:38 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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