I want the source of this picture. I don't live in Trumptopia where facts don't matter
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the image does not match. i thought it may be william ellison, a major slaveowner, but no
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Slavery started in America in 1619.http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery …
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Replying to @AZahn8 @Peter_OTool and
Servitude started from the moment English settlers landed: they brought servants from England
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AZahn8 and
But in English common law servitude was to maturity, or for a define term of indenture
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AZahn8 and
The first crop of blacks brought to our colonies were released at the end of their indentures
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @Peter_OTool and
So, how did they go from indenture servants to slaves? Raping, lynching, etc.
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I just told you how; an African master brought a court case pushing his native customs, mid 17th c.
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @AZahn8 and
(This is all English colonies, btw. As Peter rightly notes, Arab slave trade existed for a millennium)
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slavery was everywhere in the world, Europe, Africa, Asia, even in Aztec America.
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Right, so stop making factually false statements like a retard when you mean "in English colonies"
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