Comments by "Dennis" (@Dennis-nc3vw) on "The Reality of Slavery in America vs Everywhere Else" video.

  1. I don't know about in Africa, but Arab slavery was incredibly brutal. So was Euro-Caribbean slaery.
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  2.  @SP-qi8ur  Even scrolling through wikipedia will teach you a lot.
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  3. Probably very few because there were almost no Jews in America, especially the South, at that point in history.
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  4. Child labor was a necessity for a family's health and survival for 99% of human history, and still is in some parts of the world. Many child laborers are kidnapped slaves, but some are laboring in the best interests of themselves and their families. Child labor is a reflection of economic necessity more than anything else, because even though it wasn't outlawed in the US until the 1930s, it was virtually non-existent before that. Child and if we tried to avoid all products that could potentially be made from slave labor, we'd have to put the entire world under economic sanctions.
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  5. No, they did slave raids and made purchases. Having European trading partners was a very important for keeping up with your rivals in Africa, so if the Europeans raided one of your coastal villages for slavery, you'd probably look the other way.
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  6.  @MAZEMIND  Source?
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  7. What does that even mean? Because you have to work for things, you're a slave? That's like saying you're a victim of murder because you're not immortal.
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  8.  @Tjalve70  So you think slavery had nothing to do with racism in the Carribean colonies of Europe? Or in South America?
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  9. They were being punished from crimes. Granted that was true of many first generation slaves of African descent, too.
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  10. So why are they deliberately throwing other slaves, even Black slaves in other parts of the Americas, under the bus? For no other reason than to promote anti-Americanism.
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  11. Then tell us what he's misrepresenting.
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  12. Black people knew how to farm before slavery, ssakcaj. Read the accounts of Leo Africanus, he talks about them selling produce at the markets.
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  13. America had slaves. We were not built on slavery. Slaves were only 10% of the population, and slavery was illegal for the majority of our history.
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  14. Slavery did teach some Black people useful skills. You're sure to hear this mentioned in even the African-American Studies course at the most left-leaning universities. It's in the AP College Board's curriculum too. It's a simple fact, one of hundreds mentioned in a 200+ page document put out by the Florida school board. Besides, these people are throwing other Black victims of slavery under the bus by pretending American slavery was uniquely cruel. Why? For no other reason than to promote anti-Americanism.
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  15. Your side is throwing victims of slavery under the bus to promote anti-Americanism. By telling the lie American slavery was uniquely cruel, like the 1619 project claims, you are throwing the Black who suffered in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Arab world under the bus.
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  16. It doesn't. But why are they trying to make slavery look exclusive or worse in America except to promote anti-Americanism?
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  17. I've actually never heard the alcoholism thing.
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  18.  @mattharrell3932  Both happened. There were indeed slave raids in Africa. African kings would generally look the other way because they didn't want to alienate their White trading partners. You don't have to be more athletic than someone to overpower them, haven't you heard of guns?
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  19. I seriously doubt you can find any evidence most cobalt mining is done by child labor, let alone slave labor.
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  20.  @robinharwood5044  it started out as a religious thing but it became racial over time
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  21. Ironically they're dishonoring the memories of Black people who faced horrors in the Caribbean and the Arab world with this non-sense.
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