Enslavement of Blacks. . .the worse? Options

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The issue of why African Americans/Blacks seem to think that the enslavement of their ancestors was so much more horrible than the enslavement of other people has come up many a time in discussions centered on race and ethnicity. So, I figured I'd just go ahead and start a discussion on the subject. Hopefully, one doesn't already exist.

So, my opinion.

I actually wrote a paper on this very subject last year for a history class I was taking at college. While I argued from an economical stand point in my paper, I think I'll go with the skin color issue here.

Every time I gain some new knowledge, my opinion seems to change, but I believe that the main reason the enslavement of Blacks is considered to be such a heinous crime and held above similar crimes is because it was based almost solely on skin color and the complete domination of an entire race thought to be some how deviant or against God in nature. I'll try to elaborate more on my stance once a discussion picks up.

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Topic post = groundless, the first enslavement of Africans was by Africans. Also, they were the ones who sold them to the 'white man'. Africans have been having tribal warfare with each other and killing each other since it was possible. The prisoners of war were turned into slaves. Many wars were begun for the sole purpose of taking prisoners.

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Topic post = groundless, the first enslavement of Africans was by Africans. Also, they were the ones who sold them to the 'white man'. Africans have been having tribal warfare with each other and killing each other since it was possible. The prisoners of war were turned into slaves. Many wars were begun for the sole purpose of taking prisoners.

Yes there was slavery in Africa but America in my opinion had the worst slavery in the history of slavery. Slavery in other parts of the world slavery was taken in many different forms. In African slavery a slave had his own home and land and they wasn't slave all their live, slavery was a form of paying off a loan. African sold slave to the white man because he thought the white man slavery was the same as their slavery. The African was also trick too. And the tribal wars didn't start until the Europeans got involved.

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Yes there was slavery in Africa but America in my opinion had the worst slavery in the history of slavery. Slavery in other parts of the world slavery was taken in many different forms. In African slavery a slave had his own home and land and they wasn't slave all their live, slavery was a form of paying off a loan. African sold slave to the white man because he thought the white man slavery was the same as their slavery. The African was also trick too. And the tribal wars didn't start until the Europeans got involved.

You can't be serious. Do you know about any of the other "slavery times" (not that I should say that, there is perpetually slavery somewhere) that have happened throughout history, throughout the world? Urm, the Holocaust wasn't the only bad thing that happened to Jews, and there was a reason the barbarians had a revolt against the Romans. I could seriously go on and on.