[Uncle Miltie]

Hells bells, my great great great (?) grandmother sold the kids into indentured servitude. Africans enslaved Europeans when they could get away with it. Slaving was world-wide and ecumenical.

But a bunch of dead white guys in Britain and America decided it was wrong, and fought wars to enforce their new-fangled morality.

Go figure.

[harpseal]

Captain William(?) Riley of Cromwell Connecticut was a slave in Africa for a number of years before being bought in North Africa and returned to the USA. He wrote a book about it and it was a major contribution to the abolishinist movement in the USA. This was in the early 19th Century. Slaves were all colors and the institution was universal. the Aztecs had slaves from other tribes in Mexico, African tribes had slaves from other tribes, Orientals had slaves of other Orientals. Slavery was common in Western Europe and almost all the slaves were European. Islamic nations maintain slavery to this day.