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You are deliberately mixing up different groups who captured and used slaves. How many black people working on a plantation in for example Barbados would be able to use their accountancy skills? Or file a complaint against their master?

No I'm pointing out that slavery is as old as time and everyone did it, the basic process and outcome is the same. The levels of abuse varied.

The only thing different about African slavery is that the UK realised that the millennia old selling of slaves by African leaders and the trading & abusing was morally wrong and something we should stop despite many other countries including Africa (who sold 90% of the slaves sent to America) wanting to continue it.

Try reading up on being a slave of a Roman/Greek/Egyptian/Arab many of those were treated worse than African slaves. Christianity tended to shield the Western purchased Africans from the worse excesses of their master.

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/0...%20prosecution.

A Roman Citizen was allowed to exploit his own slaves for sex, no matter the age or circumstances of birth. A freeborn Roman could even rape, torture and abuse their property without charge or prosecution. A slave had no civil protection or authority pertaining to their body; in essence the body of a slave was to be used to appease the sexual appetites of their Dominus.

I know this did occur on some plantations but it wasn't the norm. In Rome it was expected for all slaves to satisfy their owners desires.

Tiro & Cicero's relationship was unusual by Roman standards.

Actually quite a few African slaves did document abuses and were published, encouraged by mainly the clergy & god fearing people this is what led to abolition.

https://spartacus-educational.com/USASpunishments.htm

Spartacus is based on a true story of a Roman slave rebellion they were all crucified on the Appian way.

If you were an Egyptian slave you may well be put to death when your master died. You were probably expected to service them in the same way Roman slaves were. Maybe that is why the Israelites fled?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancien...ner_sacrifices

You know more Africans were purchased by Arabs than by the British, over half the slaves purchased went to Arabia. It even caused a price rises as they got scarcer.


It was horrific being a slave any type of slave. But the current African slavery reparations industry is rather cynical.