These were black men owning black men and women. Africans had been trading and owning slaves for millennia.
There are many bloodstained black hands in the history of slavery too. …Let’s be clear about this, slavery is not a black and white issue. Remember Spartacus? He led the famous (white) slave revolt against the ancient Romans who enslaved almost anyone. “Slaves have been resisting capture and revolting against their masters for millennia and slavery continued. In my files I found this quote from a source I forget, What matters is what we all learn from hard history. Who suffered more? Who suffered less? The question is a marvelous futility. It breaks the heart to contemplate any of it. Slavery was once considered “normal” booty, the spoils taken from war and conquered peoples. (Google or search books for subjects like England’s Irish Slaves / indentured servitude, debtors prisons, etc.). If nations and peoples cannot opt out at any time of a so-called New World Order once they have been persuaded, bribed, betrayed or tricked into it, then we certainly do have a new form of servitude on the horizon.Īlmost all peoples were involved (for millennia) in one way or another in forms of slavery ranging from very harsh shackled servitude, of and within many peoples, to indentured “servitude” and debtors prisons, etc. But since many warn of globalism’s (Read: the New World Order’s) new forms of ‘serfdom’ or ‘enslavement’ and human sacrifice (e.g., abortion, euthanasia, eugenics, usury and debt bondage), I think the subject cannot be avoided precisely because we do not want the world, not any peoples, to revert to anything near the global “plantation,” whether of the “hard” or “soft” variety of bondage. Slavery, alas, was / is as old as the world in almost all cultures…It is almost a subject too painful to think about.