Asclepias
Diamond Member
Thats a pretty ignorant statement. Chattel slavery will forever be a american invention. Slavery prior to that did not remove the fact that these were people, humans and not livestock. Slaves frequently intermarried with their owners family and some rose to leadership positions. Only someone woefully ignorant of the facts or an out right liar would make the claim you just made.While many things have been invented in America, claiming slavery as one of them is about as far fetched as it is possible to get. Redefining it to some way to some subcategory of human ownership in order to attempt to make it seem worse has no apparent function other than divisiveness and guilt tripping. Owned is owned. Being born into slavery is being born into it. This existed throughout human history in all cultures. No one knows how many Europeans were sold into the Orient. Indigenous peoples did it to their own as well as others. No qualitative difference can be detected; it was always despicable.