No and yes. Understand this. We are not arabs our culture traditions language rage competelely different with arabs. We came anatolia central asia and also our relatives kazaks kirgiz ozbek turkmen etc living central asia yet.
In Türk history big mass slave trading never happen only in capital and some elites have slaves common peoples never have slaves (like roman empire) and never meet and know slaves.
Slaving is a world history realty. Every parts of history. there was slavery in every parts of history;
white to white (romans take galls, germans and English ;) and make their slaves.
Black to black; in africa every time some clans captured other clans and take and make them their slaves
Black to white; in history some African states buy them white slaves (greeks , local anotolians and mezapotamians )
White to black; this common when the CONQUER FATİH SULTAN MEHMET conquered constantinople and blocked the silk road.
The europans searc a new way to reach far east asia and with christof colomb began a new discovery age. He discovered america continents and captured new and virgin lands europeans need so much human power and workers. And than began to big mass cruel slavery trade leading of europeans.
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Genocide definition the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Large is subjective But because it is that means it can be any number you deem to be large. But it clearly was a Genocide from the fact "Especially those of a particular ethnic group" pretty sure that's what they targeted and i am pretty sure at least more than 1000 died, and i would consider that large.
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You don't have to agree with him, he is a historian that knows what he is talking about. The left challenge him because truth challenges their narrative. Anything to keep the hate alive until the election and their useful idiots we call their voters.
BLM are so desperately trying to link American History with all of Europe's. It's true that American heritage is European but our histories are different. Black people emigrated into Great Britain but we hear the same stories from BLM like this was America (even though that argument isn't justified by these hate-mongers, race hustler, race-baiters, generally hateful people). Not only do they re-write history but the present with zero data or facts but much emotion and resentment for people who have never a thing against them. The sort of irrational hate the nazi"s had for a group called the Jews.The genocide occurred before the slave ships arrived. I've read as many as 40% went over the side at sea. I am by no means defending slavery but a "prime" male could sell for $10,000 current dollars and a "breeding female" for quite a lot as well.
Slavery in South America, particularly Brazil, was, effectively, genocide.The Holocaust was genocide but there are still Jews in Europe (and antisemitism)
It's not a genocide, it's human trafficking or, more precisely, as the name suggests, freaking slavery. If it was a genocide, the USA would be whiter than a bleached cloth.
Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Clearly slavery was not genocide, if only due to the economic value of their labor.Not genocide; just ritualised kidnapping, exploitation of the foulest kind, and murder.
If it was genocide we’d not have any in the country now, either.
Sometimes being a great or known historian, does not guarantee you the genius on earth. I just fimd his comments shity.
I agree but slavery has been going around for thousands of years oh, it's not like it just started happening last week LOL a little do people know that more than half of the slaves that were sold in Africa was by its own race.
It's pure evil and I have no idea who david Starkey is but he sounds like an asshole
Even if it wasn't a genocide, billions of black people were worked to their early death.
This is a piece of selectively ignored history. Most "woke" people actually have no idea how ignorant they are. Instead of bitching, they should learn the facts.
i wish they'd go back home. they are free now. why aren't they going home?
Honestly it's semantics. Even if it wasn't "genocide", it was still wrong... just a different type of wrong.
I agree and it matters. People may not see the issue but the second you say the how and why doesn't matter it's still bad you start to dilute the lessons.
Yep, it was genocide. Genocide is how and why people are targeted, and not the aftermath and how many are left.
Genocide: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
Many of the slaves were killed you Nazi bastard.
Now go back to your cross burning section of the Internet.It was not exactly genocide, but in many ways it was far worse.
i suppose technically that is true, but that doesn't mean slavery was okay either
Holocaust was not genocide otherwise there wouldn't be so many damn Jews in Israel and the West.
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