Well statistically its a provable fact that they were better off in North America then anywhere else. I mean for starters they were not emasculated like in the middle east (the reason why we have a population of blacks in our country but no middle eastern country does. Also because we allowed them to marry and have kids and they couldn't do that in the middle east).
Also, statistically their was only a few year gap between life spans of slaves to slave owners in the west (about four years) while in other countries that was over 15 year difference i. e. harder more brutal life.
On top of that blacks actually had some rights in the west (not many, and this of course does not mean that slavery was acceptable but rather that if given these two terrible options, the least terrible one would be to be a slave in the west), which again is how they married, how they could get free, it was illegal to beat a pregnant slave etc. Not exactly great but a far cry better then every other nation at the time (in central and south America they would be butchered, tortured and killed, native americans did much the same. So did African slavers (if they were not just selling them) etc. etc.).
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I don't know enough to say. I went to the slavery museum in new orleans and it explained the fate of many of the slaves there. That was quite damn awful... to die quickly of diseases, killed by reptiles, and sear in the heat while working all day.
but I cannot compare that to the Muslim slave trade, Barbary states Muslim slavery (often taking European white women), or other nations. that's a tough nut to compare...
why people find it "good" to enslave and misuse others, and justify it as "good", would be a better question to ponder...
As I'm sure you know, there are many slaves today... human trafficking is an intense business... white, black, latino, philipino, etc.. They are right under your nose too...
Ask the strange fruit hanging from the trees after a lynching if they have it good. What an ignorant question.
We dont know how that went. We werent there so we can't judge
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About middling. They didn't have some of the appalling experiences inflicted upon slaves by the Arab slave trade in East Africa, and the Indian Ocean, but they also generally didn't have it particularly good, either.
I can think of both better and worse places to be a slave than in the United States, when slavery was legal.It’s funny how people’s perception of history is skewed. Whites purchased their slaves from Black and Muslim Africans. White Christians from Europe and the Americas are the ones that pushed to end slavery around the world in a huge struggle that lasted hundreds of years. Black slaves in Europe and the Americas were freed before White slaves in Arabia were freed. All the White nations freed slaves about a century before the Muslim nations freed their slaves. The last to free slaves were the Black nations in Africa in the 1960s. Yet somehow Whites get demonized for slavery and Blacks supported a back to Africa movement and developed the Nation of Islam at a time when slavery was still a thing in Africa and Muslims were just getting around to abolishing slavery. It fucking hilarious. African Americans turn their backs on the people that freed them and threw their support behind the people that enslaved them.
Surprised that neither you, nor anyone else, has mentioned that, while up to 28M of the estimated 140M victims of the Islamic Slave Trade were Africans, the overwhelming majority of those victims, over 100M, were actually White Europeans. Mostly Slavs, from Central Europe, who're the whole reason that we call them 'Slaves' and refer to it as 'Slavery' today (though the Arabs referred to them, and all Europeans by extension, as 'Saqaliba', which they also used as a disparaging racial slur, comparable to 'Negro'). And the majority of the non-Latino/Hispanic White population of the world today, 300-360M of roughly 450-500M, are Slavs- most 'Whites' in our world today are actually the direct descendants of the historically most enslaved, impoverished and racially disadvantaged demographic in recorded human history. Ironic, isn't it?
I don't know much about this topic but I believe that Muslims fucked up almost everything in history. As for Africans, it was really difficult but still they survived that dark era so i think they were strong enough.
I don't know, Y, but secularism just vanishes in their book,
Even issues of gender inequality,
Innumerable rituals with no support of rationalism,
And then you got to kill a goat but guess what they kill it in the most safest, and less painful way, I mean WTF. 😂😂😂 Look your still killing it, isn't it?
They get many followers, mainly because either they lack the Brains to question their ideology or their just poor.
Suppression of voices which give up the hardships of following unnecessary ideologies, and not believing or respecting the other faiths and followers are some of facts this religion follows.
Cmon what else did you expect from them?
😂😂😂Well yes, they were defo treated better than jews in camps. But i do really think this don't matter slavary is slavary.
And also kinda depends on the owner of the actual slave. Some people would treat there slaves better and even equal and some nazis saved the most jews they could. And some camps had leaders who were more empthetic who wouldn't just gas the guy cause he is old.Seems like a race baiter loaded up a question they have a strong opinion on.
So why ask, if you're just going to shit on people who respond?
Stay in your racist bubble.Oh, look, you have a particular other group of slavers in mind.
Slavery used to be associated with religion (i. e. you couldn't enslave someone of your own religion, and if they converted, they had to be freed); America's special contribution was to make it life-long, including the slaves' children, and associate it with skin colour.Ya in some circumstances yes, there were actual slaveowners in the south that were fed, clothed, wifed, housed. They were so loyal to the south they fought for the confederacy. It's not all black and white
Yes. Arab slave trade was far worse. And in fact Arabs still practice slavery today. They're the most despicable disgusting people to ever exist.
I don't know the actual conditions of slaves of thousands years ago, but black slaves in America were treated absolutely horrible, abused, humiliated, both men and women raped, children used as bait for alligators. Black people had it extremely bad in the Americas as slaves.
They definitely had it better than in a lot of other places.
Even within the Americas. In Haiti it was way way worse.
The Islamic Slave Trade used Africans for hundreds upon hundreds of years.Slavery is the best thing that ever happened to black people.
Well, you can be my slave for the rest of your life.
I promise to treat you better than the average African-American slave. That's sounds like a good deal, right?No. It was all bad dude. Thousands were killed on the plantation, thrown overboard by the thousands while in chains at sea.
Depends who owned them and how cruel they were I guess
No slavery is always bad and unnecessary so no reason for the lesser evil here.
No. Not really. Shit was the same in 1400s as it is now. Also why you trying to blame the Arabs? It was regular Africans selling other Africans to whites, just like it is today.
No. The amount of enslaved doesn’t mean we were better than the older civilizations. If anything we’re worse for continuing slavery when most of the world outlawed it.
I dont know much about other slaves around the world. So I dont know how to answer the question.
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