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(29,503 posts)things are the way they are here.
malaise
(269,278 posts)and continue to destroy their families with institutional racism.
ryan_cats
(2,061 posts)Interesting pronoun choice.
Choosing 'they' means I and everyone else (except you) are still doing the enslaving. Utilizing a broad brush is fine for house painting but terrible for portraits.
Luckily France and Portugal weren't built on slavery.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)with, as far as I know, African ancestry, and so is pretty well placed to use 'they' in that sense.
malaise
(269,278 posts)via the rape of women on plantations.
Bottom line is the myth that 'the family' built anything is BS at best and a ridiculous lie at worse.
Loot and plunder explain a lot.
hack89
(39,171 posts)The First Atlantic system was the trade of enslaved Africans to, primarily, South American colonies of the Portuguese and Spanish empires; it accounted for slightly more than 3% of all Atlantic slave trade. It started (on a significant scale) in about 1502[40] and lasted until 1580 when Portugal was temporarily united with Spain. While the Portuguese were directly involved in trading enslaved peoples, the Spanish empire relied on the asiento system, awarding merchants (mostly from other countries) the license to trade enslaved people to their colonies. During the first Atlantic system most of these traders were Portuguese, giving them a near-monopoly during the era. Some Dutch, English, and French traders also participated in the slave trade.[41] After the union, Portugal came under Spanish legislation that prohibited it from directly engaging in the slave trade as a carrier. It became a target for the traditional enemies of Spain, losing a large share of the trade to the Dutch, English and French.
The Second Atlantic system was the trade of enslaved Africans by mostly English, Portuguese, French and Dutch traders. The main destinations of this phase were the Caribbean colonies and Brazil, as European nations built up economically slave-dependent colonies in the New World.[42] Slightly more than 3% of the enslaved people exported from Africa were traded between 1450 and 1600, and 16% in the 17th century.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade#European_participation_in_the_slave_trade
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Slavery has a long and awful history in the world to say the least.
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)As is most of the world. I wish it was something we could do more to eradicate.
Facility Inspector
(615 posts)was built using a mix of slaves, serfs, peasants, indentured servants, and scores of other exploited people.
Is there a point somewhere in this?