Sujet : Re: Todays rant
De : frkrygow (at) *nospam* sbcglobal.net (Frank Krygowski)
Groupes : rec.bicycles.techDate : 17. Dec 2024, 17:09:36
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On 12/17/2024 4:51 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:
Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Yes. I'm always struck by the fact that so many people forget that the
existence of slavery has been the norm in human societies.
Not to the industrial scale though. Ie shipped across continents in huge
numbers. Nor with any means of an end.
Sorry, I disagree. The Roman Empire ran on slavery. They didn't ship them to other continents only because the empire didn't extend to distant continents. They certainly shipped conquered people around the empire as needed.
And it wasn't just the Romans. I once had a conversation with a Native American national park ranger, who was whitewashing her (Navajo?) tribe's record of enslaving other (Hopi?) Indians, by saying they did so only to learn valuable skills from them. Yeah, right.
-- - Frank Krygowski
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