From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Does Slav Really mean Slave?
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:15:58 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Russia Today keeps yabbing on about the African Slave Trade
https://www.rt.com/africa/603630-real-barbarians-french-british/
as if it was some Novelty dreamed up by the POMEs, and their
bosom buddies, the Fr*s.
Like Russia, all the rest of Europe was a source of Slaves for
Ottoman Empire and their various imitations like the Barbary Pirates,
not as some novelty or marketing innovation but as a continuation
of an *ancient* trade in human flesh that was a function of the
Roman Empire economics... Ottomans, like the rest of Yurp's
"Empires", considered themselves a continuation of Glarious Rome.
But it's mebbe historically "short sighted" to blame Rome for
slavery; just it's Imperial Glorification.
If I was to hazard a theory, Slavery is an African Invention,
exported to the rest of the Wierld startin' about two million
years ago.
Dhu (@#$%@ beach apes...)
--
Je suis Canadien. Ce n'est pas Francais ou Anglais.
C'est une esp`ece de sauvage: ne obliviscaris, vix ea nostra voco;-)
Duncan Patton a Campbell