From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Does Slav Really mean Slave?
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:09:24 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:15:58 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate wrote:
> 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.
*Glarification*, sorry ;-)
>
> 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
--
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