Portuguese and Spanish slave sellers initiated the transatlantic slave trade, leading to the brutal exploitation of black slaves in America. This is comparable to modern drug dealers, including cartels, who exploit and harm American youth by selling drugs. Both groups caused immense harm: slave sellers by creating and maintaining a devastating system of slavery, and drug dealers by spreading addiction and ruining lives. Both are responsible for significant societal damage for their own profit.
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These are also facts:
The first legal slave owner in America was black:
https://photos.brighteon.com/file/brighteon-thumbnails/poster/a9b20cc4-ee9f-4c3f-bf91-37c7dc6f6e8c
Black slave owners in the United States
The census of 1830 lists 965 free black slave owners in Louisiana, owning 4,206 slaves. The state of South Carolina, lists 464 free blacks owning 2,715 Black and White slaves. How ironic it is that so many blacks owned so many slaves in South Carolina. Yet, no one seemed to mention this during the flag controversy. Black people owned White people.
https://www.ironbarkresources.com/slaves/whiteslaves05.htm
What is Modern Slavery?
Forced labor in Sub-Saharan Africa today is estimated at 660,000. This includes people involved in the illegal diamond mines of Sierra Leone and Liberia, which is also a direct result of the civil wars in these regions.
Very enlightening! Thank you for sharing!
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