what grounds have the Goans to criticize the Portuguese for having slaves?
The key issue is that the Portuguese colonizers proclaimed themselves
to be CIVILIZED and the others were savages. Do you understand that?
If they were civilized, why the hell did they imitate the savages?
----- Mensagem de John de Figueiredo <[email protected]> ---------
Data: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:36:26 -0400
De: John de Figueiredo <[email protected]>
Assunto: Re: [GRN] Re: Dutch map ‘stolen from the Portuguese’
Para: [email protected]
The medieval Dharmashastras allowed the sale of oneself or one’s
dependents, especially during famines. A case could be made that the
Hindu caste system reduced some people to things. In the 16th
century in Goa and elsewhere it was believed that in some cases,
slavery was justified, the so-called “just slavery”. Until 1569
every religious order in Goa had slaves. My question is this: if the
Goans, Christians and Hindus, had slaves, what grounds have the
Goans to criticize the Portuguese for having slaves? The Portuguese
did not introduce slavery in Goa and they were doing what everybody
else was doing. Even Pombal could not abolish slavery in Brazil.
What is regrettable is that centuries went by before slavery was
viewed as it had been all along, an abomination, and the evil of
human trafficking continues to this date in various parts of the
world.
John M. de Figueiredo
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