On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:30:13 -0700, josephkk
wrote:

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:53:45 -0700, Rich Grise
wrote:

josephkk wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:53:10 +1000, "Josepi"

Have we not learned anything about people from your sordid black slavery
history?

Since you brought it up, europeon, slavery was imported into the Americas
by Europe's traders. Don't be so quick to blame others for what the
europeons started. See "triangle trade" for an example. See also
Hellenic and Roman eras where slavery was institutionalized. Maybe you
should say Europe's sordid history of slavery.
Though i must admit it was not wholly unknown to the pre-columbian
(indigenous) peoples, neither was it common. Nor did the indigenous
peoples do it wholesale.

The Dutch slave traders were simply buying a valuable commodity in
Africa - and from whom, exactly, were they buying them?

Thanks,
Rich

Other Africans of course. They exported slavery there before exporting it
to the "new world". Look at the colonization timelines.

And Native Americans took slaves as well

Gunner

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"If I say two plus two is four and a Democrat says two plus two is eight,
it's not a partial victory for me when we agree that two plus two is
six. " Jonah Goldberg (modified)

Gunner Asch wrote:
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:30:13 -0700, josephkk
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:53:45 -0700, Rich Grise
josephkk wrote:
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:53:10 +1000, "Josepi"

Have we not learned anything about people from your sordid black
slavery history?

Since you brought it up, europeon, slavery was imported into the
Americas
by Europe's traders. Don't be so quick to blame others for what the
europeons started. See "triangle trade" for an example. See also
Hellenic and Roman eras where slavery was institutionalized. Maybe you
should say Europe's sordid history of slavery.
Though i must admit it was not wholly unknown to the pre-columbian
(indigenous) peoples, neither was it common. Nor did the indigenous
peoples do it wholesale.

The Dutch slave traders were simply buying a valuable commodity in
Africa - and from whom, exactly, were they buying them?

Other Africans of course. They exported slavery there before exporting it
to the "new world". Look at the colonization timelines.

And Native Americans took slaves as well

I've heard (or, more accurately read) that the Greeks had Roman slaves, and
the Romans had Greek slaves.

I think maybe Sparta even had Athenian slaves, and etc.

Cheers!
Rich