can you share with me, what you know about slavery?
599145
it was unjust, sad, horrific, and bad.
741285
No. Slavery is cruel and evil and it takes a very profitable industry to get people to overlook that.
705890
Hey dude calm down this is 2006. All the slaves are dead. And who the hell are you to throw off your beliefs on someone else? Get a life.  I am black as hell and I don't ever think about what they did 100 years ago. Not even during Black History month.
300305
absolutely slavery exists even here in america.  it's not outright like it used to be when black people were corralled like cattle but don't you hear all the stories of the rings being busted here in the us.  mostly in the us it is sex slaves but around the world people are worked like slaves all their lives it's not something americans like to hear so lots of times we don't hear about it but with a little bit of digging you can find it.
530237
Slavery has been around way before the Americas were found. Egyptians built their pyramids from slave labor. Ignorance is bliss and you are the most blissful person I've seen in a while.
12212
Slavery is a result of circumstances, and thus, if the circumstances arise, slavery can easily come back. We're humans, and we can never ever be sure of anything, and thus, anything can happen.
770709
Slaves\nWomen\nChildren\nJailbirds
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I think it was wrong that it ever existed in the first place - and yes it needed to end, but...........\n\nIt is interesting to note that when slavery was finally abolished, many newly freed men and women suddenly found themselves without homes, without food and without work.\n\nAs such, no small number actually asked the ex-slave owners if they could continue working for them under the same terms as before. This was especially the case where the slave-owner had been one who was reluctant to use the whip and was a more agreeable "master" than most of the others.
786252
Is that the only people you hang out with? You told me to stop dwelling on slavery (which im not) it was a question for people in the myth/folklore topic..I didnt know u specialized in that.
633522
Not in the US, but in some third-world countries it happens. It's been known to happen to some illegal immigrants, but it is illegal.\nBut I agree, it's time to wake up. Slavery is not "starting again", it's always been around. It's a big world out there, open your eyes.
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Actually, yes.  For example, many members of the Cherokee nation in Georgia (prior to their removal to Oklahoma Territory) held slaves.  This is because they were encouraged to assimilate to contemporary European-American lifestyles and values in that geographic area, which at that time included male-headed nuclear family units (as opposed to female-headed clans), and single-family owned farms on the plantation model(as opposed to communal land tilling), and Christianity.  Many Cherokee (and some few Choctaw, Chicasaw, and Creek) families did assimilate to a large degree, and purchased slaves to work on the plantations they owned.  (Ironically, slave-holding was one of the reasons the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole nations became known to European-Americans in the 19th century as "The Five Civilized Tribes.")  \n\nCurrent scholarship is demonstrating, however, that even though some members of these Native nations held slaves, they treated them differently than did Euro-American slaveholders.  In many cases, slaves lived in the same homes as their Native owners, and in some cases, Native people even married African-Americans they held as slaves!  This illustrates the very different valence given to slavery by Native slaveholders. \n\nThere are a few excellent books on the subject, among which are:\nTheda Purdue, Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866 \nPatrick Minges, Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People 1855-1867 \n\nOne important note: Native Americans were also enslaved themselves.  Patrick Minges has edited a volume called Black Indian Slave Narratives, in which you can read primary source materials produced by some of these enslaved Native folks.  \n\nJack Forbes also has a very cool book entitled Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples, which explores yet another dimension of this aspect of American history.
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Two things are required for one to be a slave...\n1)  be a male\n2)  be married\n\nlol\n\nJust kidding!
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slavery influences a lot of stuff around the world.  you have to remember that slavery is not a new concept.  it's been around way before africans were brought to the west.  let's also not forget that almost 1,000 years before africans saw the west, the Muslims in the east were trading them near what is now the Persian Gulf.\n\nthen before that, you have the Jews being enslaved by the Egypytians.
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Slaves are one of the reasons I'm thinking.
888751
slavery still exists. its just in a different form. there are slaves here in america and in other parts of the world. i am surprised u never heard of it. there are woman who come into this country with a promised job as a "maid" and when they get over here their employer takes their passports and keeps their wages. which is slavery.
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If your looking for historic info, look up slave trading routes. Slaves were stored in the bahamian islands before being brought to america, they worked the cane farms there.
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underground railroad& abolitionists