Inneressing

[vetran]

[northernladuk]

MODs. Misleading title. Can you correct it please?

[vetran]

MODs. Misleading title. Can you correct it please?

apologies I found a unbiased history of slavery interesting.

[northernladuk]

apologies I found a unbiased history of slavery interesting.

To be fair as it gets to the end naming the final few countries and when they absolished slavery is quiet eye opening. 1981 Mauratania became the last country in the Sarhara region to abolish slavery and some regions across there still have slavery... when the entire world has been up in arms about using African slaves. Quite a juxtaposition that innit. And Pakistan giving it up in 1992. Pretty shocking really.

[vetran]

To be fair as it gets to the end naming the final few countries and when they absolished slavery is quiet eye opening. 1981 Mauratania became the last country in the Sarhara region to abolish slavery and some regions across there still have slavery... when the entire world has been up in arms about using African slaves. Quite a juxtaposition that innit. And Pakistan giving it up in 1992. Pretty shocking really.

Sadly there are more Slaves in Africa now than there were during the whole 200 years the UK were involved. Yet apparently we need to contribute trillions. Come back when the Arabs have contributed!

It started being documented in 3500 BCE (BC for us old farts) so its been about for 5.5 thousand years on paper/tablet again we were here involved for 200 years. The Kunte Kinte style of being kidnapped by the white men was <10% of slave acquisitions for the Americas most were purchased from African kings/traders.

Oddly none of those truths or lived experiences make it to the open its just people with their hands out to the west.

20% of the British sailors died on a journey to Africa about the same as slaves mortality on the way back yet that is held as an indictment. 805 of Laves dies on voyages via the Sahara with the Arabs.


https://www.britishtars.com/2018/05/mortality.html

Do check the only African king who opposed slavery and why, it is shocking.

[Zigenare]

What makes you think that anyone would be interested in an "unbiased investigation into slavery"? Those who are interested would, I suggest, be looking for a defence against claims for reparations. Those who are interested in the payment of reparations will avoid the topic like the plague.

Nobody is interested in "facts" or "the truth" anymore!

[vetran]

What makes you think that anyone would be interested in an "unbiased investigation into slavery"? Those who are interested would, I suggest, be looking for a defence against claims for reparations. Those who are interested in the payment of reparations will avoid the topic like the plague.

Nobody is interested in "facts" or "the truth" anymore!

Sadly true. Personally I want to know if we should pay reparations. I would prefer to stop slavery now and assist people who feel they were harmed by historic slavery come to terms with it.

[vetran]

I've adjusted the title.

But I probably got it wrong.

If you want me to channel my inner Gricer I can put links to a stripped down Bogey.

[DoctorStrangelove]

If you want me to channel my inner Gricer I can put links to a stripped down Bogey.

What about a bubble fronted dmu? Just askin' like. .