this either a) straightforwardly bans any mentions of slavery or Jim Crow in the classroom or b) implies you can only teach those subjects if you say they were good https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1467167294648463360 …
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Replying to @MattBruenig @ryanlcooper
Racialized plantation slavery wasn't really common throughout the world, so even that would be a falsehood.
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Google: "the world"
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These were the major imperial powers that spanned most of the world collectively at the time.
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this is a list of European powers that trafficked slaves to America and Brazil mostly. 9/10ths of the world did not have US-style slavery
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And the Caribbean. And were sold by west Africans. This is already a major chunk of the world that is actively partaking in the practice significantly larger than the US. And it becomes far larger if we allow for the huge amount of ‘non US style’ slavery that happened elsewhere.
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a) 18th-9th c. USA + Brazil + west African slave traders + Caribbean slave colonies are not even *remotely* close to a "major chunk" of world population b) the point of Jeet's remark is US chattel slavery was unusually brutal even compared to other slave regimes
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Yep. It's a commonly understood point by those who do comparative history of slavery.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @ryanlcooper and
I’m legitimately ignorant of and thus curious as to if/how, for instance, contemporaneous Brazilian slavery differed from American chattel slavery.
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