The Governor of Barbados James Leith pronounced the following after suppressing a slave revolt and mass executing rebel slaves in the field (1816):
“Slavery is not the institution of an particular Colour, Age, or Country; it has ever existed...”
“Slavery is not the institution of an particular Colour, Age, or Country; it has ever existed...”
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lots of our most reprehensible behaviours as a species are arguably natural, with deep roots in both our history and even related animal behaviour.
we can be better tho
- Slavery Apologists
"slavery existed throughout human history"
"but it's good it's over now, right?"
1. If "everybody does slavery", white people can't be held accountable for doing it. But POCs can be held accountable for crimes they commit
Not very, methinks. 😂😈
Whereas the modern purveyors of this lie, such as Musk, are trying to tell us that this is *just how things were*
European colonialism in the Americas included the development of a form of racial slavery that really has no direct parallel in world history.