FA_Q2
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Yeah, the agenda seems to be to absolve slave owners "because everybody did it". What's routinely ignored, however, is that it was in the Americas that race entered the equation. Previously slavery had been the result of war, debt, criminality or religion. Race-based slavery meant that even nominally "freed men" weren't really free. We're still suffering from the effects of that part of our history and stories like the OP are counter-productive, because they attempt to whitewash history rather than deal with the facts.
Whites stopped trading African slaves. Africans still do it. Who is engaged in ignoring?
You seem to be ignoring my point. Try reading with comprehension.
Slavery is slavery. It really does not matter what it is based upon. We might still be paying the piper so to speak but we would be doing so no matter what we based that slavery on.
It was all wrong and will always be wrong.