....um
Do you mean we should have limited the number that we kidnapped and imported as free labor, or sterilized them to prevent them from breeding?
This thread is mind blowing.
We didn't kidnap anyone.
true story
right, uh huh,
we were just the drug users and not the drug dealers....is that what you are saying, in so many words?
And our demand for slaves didn't have anything to do with the increased supply?
Slaves were kidnapped in Africa by Africans, very true, but they did so for our, and other nationalities demand....to fill our demand for them 2 thumbs....
So, both evils, were truly intertwined imho.
At its height slave owning was only practiced by 2% of Americans.
And Blacks also owned slaves in America.
The first American slave owner recorded was himself Black and so was his slave.
BTW, here's an interesting bit of info.
The Portuguese were the first to engage in the New World slave trade in the 16th century, and others soon followed. Ship owners considered the slaves as cargo to be transported to the Americas as quickly and cheaply as possible,[2] there to be sold to labour in coffee, tobacco, cocoa, sugar and cotton plantations, gold and silver mines, rice fields, construction industry, cutting timber for ships, in skilled labour, and as domestic servants.
The first Africans imported to the English colonies were classified as "indentured servants", like workers coming from England, and also, "apprentices for life".
By the middle of the 17th century, slavery had hardened as a racial caste;
they and their offspring were legally the property of their owners, and children born to slave mothers were slaves. As property, the people were considered merchandise or units of labour, and were sold at markets with other goods and services.
The Atlantic slave traders, ordered by trade volume, were: the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch Empire, and the United States.
Several had established outposts on the African coast where they purchased slaves from local African leaders.[3] Current estimates are that about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic,[4] although the number purchased by the traders is considerably higher.[5][6][7]
Atlantic slave trade - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia