4 ms·
Maybe I misunderstand you here, but - Slavery was the norm before western countries got involved with it as well. - Democracy didn't exist when the west was a
by exceptione 9y ago
Maybe I misunderstand you here, but
- Slavery was the norm before western countries got involved with it as well.
- Democracy didn't exist when the west was also active in the slavery market. I do not know too much about the US though.
- coldtea 9y ago>- Slavery was the norm before western countries got involved with it as well. Not in the scale of enslaving 2/3rd of the world. In fact many nations had put an end to the practice way before colonialism. And of course those countries didn't pride themselves on their christian or englitenment values, or beings democratic, and having some "white man's burden" of civilizing the world. >- Democracy didn't exist when the west was also active in the slavery market. You don't need democracy to abolish slavery.
- ttoinou 9y agoNot in the scale of enslaving 2/3rd of the world. In fact many nations had put an end to the practice way before colonialism. Source ?
- purple-again 9y agoHes conflating colonization with slavery. A horribly thing to do as they were not similar tragedies.
- coldtea 9y agoActually they were very much intertwined. Colonization was how slavery was justified, commercialized and gone global, and colonial subjects were treated as an abundant work force for their colonial masters (when they were not hunted for fun, treated as animals, or displayed on "human zoos"). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/european-racism-africa-slavery https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/europe... But even if I was "conflating" the too, that would at best a mistake in the use of words, not a "horribly" (sic) thing to do. Slavery and/or colonization themselves would be actual examples of horrible things to do.
- ttoinou 9y agoSo do you have the examples of civilizations stopping slavery way before the europeans ?