2023-08-03

Answering People's Questions About Slavery: The London History Show

This is an engaging and unpleasant look at the slave trade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrYRPLy6g2g

Compare how slavery was the norm for thousands of years and has only been abolished for less than 200 years.  This doesn't speak well for humanity.

Even after abolition in the United States, the southern states used laws to enslave black persons.  https://www.history.com/news/black-codes-reconstruction-slavery

This practice wasn't abolished until the mid 20nth century.

The Arab slave trade was huge.  Barbary pirates would capture European and even American ships and enslave the passengers.





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