Comments by "NSResponder" (@NSResponder) on "Historian Reveals The TRUTH About Slavery" video.

  1. The long and short of it is, industrial capitalism is the greatest liberating force in history, simply because free labor is vastly more productive than slave labor.
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  2. Buying Africans was more cost-effective than enslaving native Americans.
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  3. So culturally insensitive of the Brits to make Indians quit burning widows, wasn't it? And how about the Spanish forcing the Incas to stop cutting people's hearts out in their religious rituals?
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  4. Slavery was pervasive globally from prehistory until a group of English Christians in the late 1700s decided that it's morally repugnant, and set about convincing their government to fight it, which England did all alone for some 70 years before the rest of Christendom was shamed into helping out. Western civilization's aversion to slavery is why its no longer considered normal, and this was over the objections of basically everybody else: the Muslims, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Indians, the Africans, etc, etc. Any guilt-peddler trying to get a handout from me for slavery will be told in no uncertain terms that I never owned a slave, my family lost men in the war to end slavery in America, and I don't owe him a goddamned thing.
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