There weren't even thirteen colonies in 1619. There was, however, slavery in almost every part of the world: nothing unique about North America in that regard.
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @Crypto_Flux and
Mass importation of slaves wasn’t unique, but was quite unusual. How many other countries had a sizable percentage of their population come from importing and enslaving people?
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Replying to @AriDavidPaul @NickSzabo4 and
Spain Portugal France and England likely had more slaves, just not imported.
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Replying to @Crypto_Flux @AriDavidPaul and
nope! The entire time Wilberforce was fighting slavery, for pretty much his entire life, there werent slaves in England. Cortez killed millions in South America the Dutch, Portugal & England had all kinds of slaves in the Indies, Africa etc. England had slaves in Ireland.
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Replying to @JacobyTNelson @AriDavidPaul and
Imported in some other country/place. Traded for to go and work somewhere.
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Replying to @Crypto_Flux @AriDavidPaul and
they - they were indigenous slaves. sometimes blacks in Sierra Lione and other places captured other blacks and made them slaves at home. Similar things happened in the east as well.
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Replying to @Crypto_Nuggets @AriDavidPaul and
Sure. But it's not common to be enslaved by your peers... Or family or friends... Otherwise, why didn't the colons enslaved the native Americans?
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Replying to @Crypto_Flux @AriDavidPaul and
not sure but until Andrew Jackson & the invention of the colt revolver used by Texas Rangers, enslaving indians was not that easy - on horseback they were were much better fighters, able to fire many more arrows than a musket. when they did get defeated it was often from disease
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Replying to @JacobyTNelson @AriDavidPaul and
Sure. But why did they fight? Because they were natives of the land.
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Some old history we could actually learn from rather than using as an excuse to take from our fellow Americans.
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