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Which in this case is doubly ironic, because pirates and buccaneers were exactly the group that had kept the slave trade alive even after it was officially bann
by mkotowski 5y ago
Which in this case is doubly ironic, because pirates and buccaneers were exactly the group that had kept the slave trade alive even after it was officially banned in many places, if my limited knowledge on the Atlantic slave trade is correct.
- bostonsre 5y agoI recall instances where they fought slavery by capturing slave trading ships, freeing the enslaved, and given them freedom and the opportunity to join them and fight the assholes that captured them in the first place. The history of Nassau is pretty interesting.
- Geezus_42 5y agoThey were individualist. Some fought slavery, some helped it. No one can make a blanket statement either way.
- tenpies 5y agoThe hilarity of it all is ego of the Western social justice movement. By most estimates there are more slaves today than in any other point in history and it's almost entire in Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa. Instead of helping those people, putting sanctions on the countries and companies turning a blind eye on slavery, or even acknowledging that slavery is not history but an ongoing condition - the West spins its wheels changing language in highly unrelated fields. The absurdity of it all is something out of Camus.
- throw0101a 5y ago> Hostis humani generis (Latin for "enemy of mankind") is a legal term of art that originates in admiralty law. Before the adoption of public international law,[when?] pirates and slavers were already held to be beyond legal protection and so could be dealt with by any nation, even one that had not been directly attacked. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis