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The business model in the French and Spanish colonies was buy a slave, work him to death in 3 years and replace him, but WE are the source of all evil in the world?

Exellent video Hawkeye.

Are the people who sold the slaves to be sent off to America blameless???

Committed by the black slaves owners.

didn't "The Scarlet Letter" come first?

Yes, it was. And it could kill this republic yet.
As soon as the Brits surrendered the new Americans should have freed the slaves, and to hell with South Carolina.
There were many then opposed to slavery, there was a chance they could have actually pulled it off.
And if that meant fighting the Civil War right then, with the War of 1812 thrown in, fine, bring it.
And it is all as simple as that.

I didn't watch the vid, but the caption under it referred to slavery in the U.S. as "benign".

Sorry. I'm out. Been practiced by every society as long as there have been societies. I don't owe anyone shidt, and I abhor the victim culture of a people that have been free for several generations now here. Not to mention the treatment of the Irish when they came etc. etc etc.

But there is no such thing as benign slavery. Maybe I'm selling the video short?

You are selling the video short. Yes slavery in America was horrible, but there was much more slavery elsewhere.

Didn't watch the video (yet) but I read a lot of books about Africa. Slavery was common in West Africa well into the 20th century, including in Liberia, where the ruling class was ex-slaves from America.

If you google it, you will find that slatvery is a $90 billion industry today, with the biggest slave-owning country being India.

Slavery was ubiquitous.

https://www.americanthinker.com/art...he_us_owes_no_reparations_to_blacks.html

Slavery is brutal and repulsive, but it was as much a part of ancient history and early modern history as growing crops was. And widespread opposition against slavery came pretty late in human history. Those facts don’t justify it. It’s a scourge that America...the land of the free...tolerated it.

Far less so than leaving those people to rule themselves as has been repeatedly proven over time.

In fact, slavery is the natural state of those incapable of defending themselves.

Bad behavior is not excused by other bad behavior.

Too bad America started out with slavery in some states, but since slavery was present in virtually every other part of the world at the time, it's hard to blame the founders too much. The Declaration and the Constitution were revolutionary and eventually led to the end of slavery. The abolitionist movement started in the US and Britain.

Slavery was brutal and disgusting BUT there are members of this forum who wish it was still allowed…

As long as people are doing the whole it was bad BUT, might as well make it accurate.

Slavery exists right now, including in Africa, and no one much GAF because there’s no money in it like there is in rehashing what happened here, which was ended by spilling a lot of American blood. Even the preachy hypocrites in Yurrup are content to let the Chicoms enslave literally millions of Uyghurs as long as they can keep getting cheap Nikes.

People are no damn good; the Bible tells me so……

There are black people here?

I have noticed since guns have become popular, slavery has gone down hill.

First off, the fact that slavery began in this nation IS NOT the fault of America. People tend to forget that prior to winning the Revolutionary War everything that happened he was due to ENGLAND! The King of England allowed slavery to begin here with royal decree. As a matter if historical fact when Thomas Jefferson penned the original draft of the Declaration of Independence one of the complaints he registered against the Crown was the institution of slavery. However when it was debated 2 of the colonies, GA and SC, objected to that part and due to the need for unanimity they edit that part out and the problem of slavery was kicked down the road for a future generation to deal with

So Slavery WAS NOT America's original sin, it was England's original sin due to the simple fact that it occurred here long before America existed.