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DepreceV2 posted...

This. Anyone who says American slavery wasnt about racism are completely full of shit. I did learn in African American History that slavery was a thing in Africa. However it was much more fair back then. You got put into slavery if you couldnt pay your debts and you were released once you worked your debt off.

That is nothing even close to American slavery

I thought the discussion in the video, I didn't watch it, was like how the topic is titled, saying slavery in America didn't start out about race. That is probably true. Like the very first slaves shipped here in 1619 they probably weren't thinking "oh yeah let's enslave those dark skins they deserve it" so much as it was "free labor." It just obviously became less about the "hey free labor!" aspect and eventually became all about race at some point down the road, with most of the near 250 years of slavery being race based.

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