Are you saying white slavery was as systemic and width spread as black slavery in America? If so I’ve missed a big part of the American slave history.
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IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Much people forget before black slavery there was white slavery… So its just good if there is none slavery.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
No, I’m just saying what I wrote. It is not meant to be an equality or anything else but just a statement that it is good without any slavery no matter what origin, skin color and (even if I am an atheist and despise any religion) religious affiliation. It was also not referring to Americans but a general statement.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Sure, but the image is about a game taking place in American history. I agree that no slavery is good but you comment doesn’t add much to the historical context. If anything removes nuance.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Would be good without modern slavery right? Penal labor. But well affected are black white whatever.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
what is it that drives the desperate need you have to bring it up in this context?
the vast majority of people who know history know about indentured servitude. but it’s a footnote compared the the millions of people systematically stolen (not indentured, note), taken to another part of the planet and bred for labor.
IceFoxX@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yes ok then say that you are happy that slavery of black people has stopped and that you don’t care about any other form of slavery. < That’s what the statement suggests because you’re not talking about slavery in general but explicitly about black slaves…
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
before black slavery there was white slavery
bzzt wrong. Portuguese slave traders worked out deals with african tribal leaders in the 1400s. Unless you’re going to relabel feudalism as slavery.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There was slavery before Portugal or feudalism were things. I’d wager slavery might even predate the homo sapien species and probably came soon after a species was able to communicate orders and threats.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
ok, keep going, you’re almost there: if you follow that back to the Olduvai gorge, like you say, to the earliest humans - where were those hominids who were enslaving each other? come on, you can do it…
were they white people?
This idiotic statement:
Much people forget before black slavery there was white slavery… So its just good if there is none slavery.
Much people forget basic grammar too, apparently.
No, there’s always some idiot who has to bring up that some white people (maybe even their ancestors) were also slaves, so he shouldn’t have to XYZ. Or that people of color might have ancestors who enslaved each other, so XYZ. It’s all silly bullshit.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I was just responding to what you said, not the overall line of argument. I was going to add stuff about not being able to determine the colour of those first slaves and it not really being relevant either way, but it felt like it was getting rambly so I cut it back to the main point.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Not comparable
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Slavery is slavery no matter who does it or whom it’s done to.
M1nds3nd@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Not even close. Chattel slavery is much worse.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
“White slavery” was white people that were slaves. Black slaves literally weren’t viewed as people! Thus, no one cared if you beat them, starved them, raped them, tortured them, and/or killed them. Which we as a country did. That’s the difference.
luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
“viewed as people” is meaningless unless it confers some special rights afforded to people.
White slaves didn’t have any more rights than black slaves, largely because skin-color based distinction is a rather modern invention (compared to the institution of slavery) and the defining traits of both black and white slaves were that they’re slaves. And slaves were universally treated poorly. Even the most benevolent slave owners in antiquity were cruel, because why wouldn’t you be? The damn thing might start getting uppity if you didn’t remind it you’re in control. Just imagine it might cause damage to someone else, and you’d be dragged to court over it!
A crime against your slave was a crime against your household (assuming you’re the head of the household), which you were entitled to drag the other party to court for. But there was literally no legal framework that would allow any kind of prosecution for anything you did to your own household. You could also beat them, kill them, rape them, literally anything. They had no defense. The only person empowered to prosecute on their behalf would be the one beating them.
So no, “white people that were slaves” weren’t people in any meaningful sense, because oppression and supremacy in much of the pre-modern world didn’t care about skin color. The romanticism around white slavery is bullshit, because owning other humans has never been anything but cruel.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I don’t think it was about “white vs black” as much as it was about “America can take any system, good or bad, and turn it into something so much worse”.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Try again
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This argument is fucking stupid.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
The argument that chattle slavery and ye olde roman slavery are wildly different is stupid and racist?
callyral@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
They’re both two types of slavery. They’re in the same category. They can be compared.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Of course they are comparable, just that the statement is a little strange in the context of American history.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
Well sure anything can be compared in a literal sense. For example, based on your responses, I think you are either more racist or more ignorant than the average individual. However, the literal comparability of the two types of slavery is not exactly the point anyone is making here.
callyral@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
I must’ve misunderstood, sorry.