Is Slavery Wrong?

[Flash]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

It is morally reprehensible that we are slaves of the government. Where the fruits of our labor are taken away and given to the welfare queens that didn't do a damn thing to earn it other than be a voting block.

That is slavery to the state and yes it is wrong.

 

[initforme]

Working for minimum wage is kind of a form of slavery. That's why effort is tied to wage.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The fact of indentured servitude in America, i have seen, has been argued somehow that it limits the terribleness of American Negro chattel slavery.

 

[martybegan]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Yes. As per our current moral and ethical standards.

 

[marvin martian]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Your fellow DemoKKKrat says a resounding "No!"

 

[whitehall]

Assuming that slavery was wrong, who benefitted? England, France, Spain and Portugal and a few privateers engaged in the slave trade for 200 hundred years. The African tribes sold their own and members of lesser tribes to slave traders in exchange for trinkets. New England factories cranked out cotton clothing based on slave plantations. The Confederacy only existed for about 4 years. Ain't it time to spread the blame around?

 

[HikerGuy83]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Make it a poll question.


It is wrong.

It violates fundamenal freedoms of peole.

 

[Pellinore]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Add my voice to the chorus of "Yes, it is absolutely wrong, as it violates the core principle of natural rights to everyone."

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

 

[Harpy Eagle]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

From a religious stand point we know that the God of the Bible has no problems with it at all.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Define slavery that you want to ask about

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

 

[ThirdTerm]

It was common in the Roman era, when nobody questioned the institution. Slavery became unacceptable only after Britain banned it by an Act of the Parliament in 1833, which provided for the gradual abolition of slavery in most parts of the British Empire. An anti-slavery movement to abolish the slave trade throughout the Empire had begun among the British public. The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed thanks to the world's first human rights campaign. The Confederacy was a lost cause.

The British were, by the late eighteenth century, the biggest proponents of the abolition of slavery worldwide, having previously been the world's largest slave dealers.[10] William Wilberforce had written in his diary in 1787 that his great purpose in life was to suppress the slave trade before waging a 20-year fight on the industry. Slavery Abolition Act 1833 - Wikipedia

 

[iamwhatiseem]

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The battle image of the troll iamwhatiseem

 

[Carl in Michigan]

I’m just gonna say I oppose slavery.

I consider it an evil.

So what purpose is served by this OP and by this thread is unclear.

White people need to grovel at his feet and beg his forgiveness

 

[elektra]

If there was no slavery in the first 13 colonies, would the founders had wrote the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution which were the documents that resulted in the freedom and liberty enjoyed today?

As bad as slavery was, is, it is part of history and must be looked at with a unique perspective.

It was, the USA, where all the great writings of the world in regard to freedom, government, and individualism came together in the minds of the founders. The founders of the USA were the most educated people in the world, and if alive today would still be the most educated.

Is history wrong? Was slavery wrong at any and every point in history.

Sadly, there was slavery in the Americas. Happily the most educated created a country that ended slavery, here and for the world. If there was no slavery in the Colonies, would our founding be the same? Would the slavery exist much longer in other parts of the world?

The American Slave, may be as much needed for freedom, as the founding of the USA

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

If there was no slavery in the first 13 colonies, would the founders had wrote the Declaration of Independence and The Constitution which were the documents that resulted in the freedom and liberty enjoyed today?

As bad as slavery was, is, it is part of history and must be looked at with a unique perspective.

It was, the USA, where all the great writings of the world in regard to freedom, government, and individualism came together in the minds of the founders. The founders of the USA were the most educated people in the world, and if alive today would still be the most educated.

Is history wrong? Was slavery wrong at any and every point in history.

Sadly, there was slavery in the Americas. Happily the most educated created a country that ended slavery, here and for the world. If there was no slavery in the Colonies, would our founding be the same? Would the slavery exist much longer in other parts of the world?

The American Slave, may be as much needed for freedom, as the founding of the USA

You make real sense for a change. Spot on.

 

[petro]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Yes.
Jesus, we learned that way back in elementary school in the 1970's. We used to study history without a filter.
Many were against it at the creation of America, but due to resistance were able to draft a Constitution that had the ability to eventually outlaw the practice. Of course at great cost and almost the disintegration of a nation.
But it wasn't exclusively practiced by whitey, nor has it been eradicated from the entire globe.

 

[eagle7-31]

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?

Yes. But slavery has been around long before it came to the US and it still around in parts of Africa today.

As a matter of fact, is slavery wrong?

Why/why not?