Atlantic slave trade vs. Old world slaves trades, Afro-American narrative vs. Histori

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    your point is that slaves in African have had it better ? i am not an expert on this subject but A is a huge continent, in some places they lived in the pure hell somewhere they lived almost like free people
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmina_Castle
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo
     
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    Interesting, interesting, second reference is the only one I've ever seen saying what happened to ancient slavery in Medieval times.

    However,if you wanted to be really thorough you should have included at least one source mentioning the Swedish Viking slave trade, which is how slavery was named. The best slaves were those the Swedes took from the areas around the Pripet Marshes. (While they sometimes cooperated, in most cases Swedes went East, to the Russian Rivers and the Norwegians went to England and Europe.) Now the Vikings called slaves thralls, but the people who bought them would often ask them what they called themselves. The answer was Slav which (I think) means "glorious" or "shining" or it might just mean "people" I dunno, but anyway, it was what they called themselves. Now the Slavs were smart and also good workers if you fed them well and didn't beat them a lot, (after all, slavery was good a deal compared with most tribal life) So Slavs became the slaves in demand, and, eventually, everyone everywhere who wanted to sell a slave called them a Slav, or a slave.

    And now you know that story.
     
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    Wasn't there something about the way one of the main tribal groupings in Africa took slaves or did warfare or something which gave them a surplus of male prisoners, and wasn't this what made them revive the slave trade, starting with selling slaves to the Arabs after the Vikings gave it up around the late 1000's? I seem to remember reading about this somewhere but everytime I go to look it up I'm buried with Kunta Kinte and whites enslaved blacks just because they were mean bull(*)(*)(*)(*). (And no, I'm NOT trying to totally blame blacks for slavery. The main reason for the Atlantic Slave Trade was to supply labor for the plantations in North America, first indigo and sugar then later cotton. However, everyone also admits the blacks had to have helped or it wouldn't have happened. The whites couldn't resist black diseases, which is why their real penetration into Central Africa is very limited to this day)
     
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    any link? some historians think that PM(islands on pripiac´) was actually Rus people (Variags) birth place

    there are many other hypothesis about semantic words Slav - slave. Eastern roman empire , Venice, etc
     
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    and overpopulation of many states in Western Africa ,
     
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    nonsense. pointing the finger always litwin
     
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    Esther Stanford, from the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition, added: ‘There is a problem when we use English words like “slavery” which don’t reflect the concept of servitude in African society, which is not dehumanising.

    ‘We need to look at African servitude not through a European lens, but an African one, and unlearn the lies and half truths we’ve been told.’

    Pennsylvanian historian, professor Igor Kopytoff, in his book African Slavery as an Institution of Marginality, argues that there was very little difference between the free workers and slaves.

    He wrote: “There were many types of involuntary servitude, which varied from tribe to tribe, but the common feature was respect for life and dignity.”

    In many respects, what we saw in Africa was similar to the feudal systems that existed in Europe, with peasants and landowners – and in lots of ways was worse.

    With the British media continuing to perpetrate the line that African-against-African ‘slavery’ was equal to the transatlantic slave trade and middle passage, we need to be setting our own parameters for debate regardless of what is happening in the mainstream.

    Western African “slavery” may have been related to agriculture, but in Ethiopia it was essentially domestic, yet both forms allowed the slave to keep their own religion and culture AND NAME. Not all African servitude was benign, though.
     
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    my friend, with out overpopulation , big scale slavery (industrial) is impossible , last example - Bangladesh, and Bangladeshis in general
     
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    Not really. It lasted 300 years, maybe thats how it became 'big scale'.
     
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    with out overpopulation It ´d last 300 years...google: overfishing
     
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    i am actually for sort of Reparations, i m for the total restitution. "Franks" pay you for low-qualified (manual) labor, you pay for them in return for food, transport, security. infrastructure, medicine, roads, new lands (Caribbeans, etc.) , ports, European languages ,Christianity, philosophy- democracy , Modern form of governances, huge investments, new technologies- knowledges , flourishing farms, death of 1000 000s white pioneers back in Africa. what do you think?

    can my people get something from Crimean Tatars/Turks for many 100 years of kidnappings, terror, sex- slavery for millions women and girls ? take my words we got nothing in return, except 10 000s burn down cities-villages , millions of dead and injured, plunges, lootings and destruction of southern parts of the GDL and Poland
     
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    Eerrrrrrrrr, ok.

    :confusion:
     
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    When did this take place?
     
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    Anyway, lets not derail this with a thread about reparations. Idont believe in that either so whats the point in discussing, iagree with you.
     
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    http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~fisher/hst373/readings/inalcik6.html
     
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    Johan do you agree with posts, if you dont, can you write why, maybe with some links
    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=343813&p=1063620395#post1063620395
    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=343813&p=1063620475#post1063620475
    http://www.politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=343813&p=1063620549#post1063620549
     
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    dont be shy, just ask, iwont bite your head off.
     
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    do you agree that Asante kingdom success was based on slavery ?
     
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    Slavery is a constant throughout history. It took hold in the Americas' because the Africans had a tolerance to the type of malaria existing in the south (including Central and South America). The Europeans were no strangers to malaria but of a type indigenous to England and southern Europe. Europeans died in droves south of the Mason-Dixon line so Africans were used for labor. The economy became dependent upon slave ownership, property being up to 70% of the economy is some places. It should also be noted that malaria was brought to the Americas by the Europeans, one of their many gifts through the Columbian exchange, the Native Americans suffered worse than all races.
     
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    what success?
     
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    economical, political
     

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