on that note, let’s talk about slavery for just a sec. Or rather, let’s have a short list of the groups that have had slaves over the years:
“Slavery was known in almost every ancient civilization, and society, including Sumer, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, the Hebrew kingdoms in Palestine, and the pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas.”
The Egyptians (you know…there’s only an entire book in the Bible dedicated to a single group of these slaves and is only one of the most famous stories of slavery of all time, but you know…nothing big).
“In early Islamic states of the Western Sudan (present-day West Africa), including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population were enslaved.”
“Indigenous slaves existed in Korea. Slavery was officially abolished with the Gabo Reform of 1894 but continued in reality until 1930. During the Joseon Dynasty(1392–1910) about 30% to 50% of the Korean population were slaves.”
“The hill tribe people in Indochina were “hunted incessantly and carried off as slaves by the Siamese (Thai), the Anamites (Vietnamese), and the Cambodians.“
“The Aztecs had slaves. Other Amerindians, such as the Inca of the Andes, the Tupinambá of Brazil, the Creek of Georgia, and the Comanche of Texas, also owned slaves.”
“According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.”
“The Arab slave trade lasted more than a millennium. As recently as the early 1960s, Saudi Arabia’s slave population was estimated at 300,000. Along with Yemen, the Saudis abolished slavery only in 1962. Slaves in the Arab World came from many different regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa (mainly Zanj), the Caucasus (mainly Circassians), Central Asia (mainly Tartars), and Central and Eastern Europe (mainly Saqaliba).”
But let’s not get into history. Let’s look at what’s going on in the world today, shall we?
Dunno about you guys, but those suspiciously vibrant colors are very obviously NOT in North America or Western Europe. In fact, they look a lot like…*gasp* POC countries! Shocker that African countries, India, and South Asian countries have such a high incidence of slavery. I mean…not, especially since I’ve picked up a history book or two in my life.
And this is from Wikipedia. Wikipedia, people. This is literally that easy to look up (And yes, I can get reliable sources if you want them). Your ignorant comments on how slavery is a “white people problem” and not your own goddamn problem as well are irrelevant, not wanted in this discussion, and literally so ignorant and America-centric like how did you even pass World Civ? Yes chattel slavery was principally a European invention and carried out by white people; that does not mean that slavery or even racism is only a “white people problem” and that nobody else is implicated in or responsible for racism and slavery. Literally every civilization in the world has experienced and participated in the slave trade; this is not something magically restricted to white countries. Shut up and take your ignorant opinions elsewhere.
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