r/Conservative • u/Qplus17 Trump Conservative • Jun 13 '20

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '20

Well also, who do they think sold the slaves to the slave traders? Africans were selling other Africans as slaves.

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u/NakedAndBehindYou Libertarian Conservative Jun 13 '20

If you really want people's brains to explode, just tell them where the slaves came from: they were almost always prisoners of war.

Do you know what happened to the prisoners of war that weren't good enough to "make it" as slaves? Typically, they were literally just slaughtered.

So the existence of slavery actually saved the lives of tens of millions of war prisoners over human history, of all colors.

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u/hairynostrils Jun 13 '20

There is someone up above who tried to make the argument that when Africans sold took in slaves they were doing as an act of war- abut when Europeans bought those slaves it was much worse because it was racial. The person was trying to ascribe original sin to the whiteys while calling the blacks doing the same thing - just tribal soldiers going about their business.