From: jdyoung <jdyoung1@ymail.com>
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Does Slav Really mean Slave?
Organization: ...and justice for all
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2024 16:10:15 -0400
On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:15:58 -0000 (UTC), Dhu on Gate
<campbell@neotext.ca> 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.
>
>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
Can't argue with the fact that Negroes did make the best slaves
J Young
jdyoung1@ymail.com