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From: flw
However to claim the buyer was more economically motivated then
the seller is essentially racist... Those dumb African Darky slave dealers...
outslicked by those crafty white European slave buyers.
If there wasn't a market, the slave dealers would have gone out of
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Slavery was first and foremost an economic institution. If you really
want to understand what it was all about, you have to analyze the
economics of the trade.
By far and away, the best book on the economics of slavery is Capitalism
Slavery by Eric Eustace Williams, ISBN
In a message dated 6/18/01 6:16:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
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If there wasn't a market for slaves amongst the European powers, there
wouldn't have been a slave trade of the scope it grew to become...
I don't know about that. The Arabs did a thriving business in
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Slavery was first and foremost an economic institution. If you really
want to understand what it was all about, you have to analyze the
economics of the trade.
That slavery was based on economics is self evident.
It ever was so, for 1000's of years.
However to claim the buyer
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flw wrote:
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Slavery was first and foremost an economic institution. If you really
want to understand what it was all about, you have to analyze the
economics of the trade.
That slavery was based on economics is self evident.
It ever was so, for 1000's of
From: flw
However to claim the buyer was more economically motivated
thenthe seller is essentially racist..." Those dumb African Darky
slave dealers...outslicked by those crafty white European slave
buyers".If there wasn't a market, the slave dealers
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I think the pendulum of talk about slavery swings to easily back and forth between
black and non-black races. It would be better perhaps to focus on the institution
itself, whereas it is the exploitation of people and the denial of human rights and
values. Who is being
http://www.lewrockwell.com/sobran/sobran166.html
Slavery in Perspective
by Joseph Sobran
The recurrent fuss about Confederate flags has always struck me as silly,
and never more so than now. I've been reading Hugh Thomas's impressive
history, The Slave Trade (published by Touchstone/Simon
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In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the
sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings. When
Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of my African ancestors' struggle for
freedom,
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In a message dated 6/18/01 3:06:12 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Several of Africa's proudest empires were built on the
sale of slaves. For centuries Africa's chief export was human beings. When
Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaks of my African
ancestors'
From: Kris Millegan
Gee, I guess there is no "history" of slaves being held by other
races.What a crock of self-serving scholarship. And the
gentleman should read morethan one book on slavery before baring
his ignorance to the world.What the original
In a message dated 6/18/01 6:16:51 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If there wasn't a market for slaves amongst the European powers, there
wouldn't have been a slave trade of the scope it grew to become...
I don't know about that. The Arabs did a thriving business in buying
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Of course the issue here is a lot more complex than the origin of the slave trade and
also as to races in slavery. But rather it is one of the decimation by imperialism of
the entire African continent. Whether that domination is from within or without is
secondary to the end
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Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy. Berkeley: University
of California Press.
By K. Bales, published in '99.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8428.html
As fine and accessible a work of investigative reporting as any of the best
that have appeared over the last
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