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Skans » 11 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

11 minutes ago

• Could they make money or own their own land in Africa?  Remember who slaves are - men (and their families) who fought wars and lost.  What would these "slaves" be doing in Africa if they didn't come to America?
• How long would these Slaves survived in Africa, after losing to a more powerful tribe?
• How would these exported Slaves been treated if they remained in Africa, considering they couldn't even defend themselves or their families from becoming enslaved.
• There's oppression - the type you were describing, and then there's oppression - the type which starves and brutalizes an individual and his family; that's African oppression.

Look, I agree that the 13 colonies would never have formed a Union without acceptance of slavery.  The real question is was it reasonable for White Europeans to believe that Black Africans were simply incapable of living as free people?  I think so. When you compare the ability of an African from 1775 to a European White of the same time frame, the difference in raw intelligence and capabilities were at least tens-of-thousands of years apart.

Ok...so they were enslaved in Africa also. That is irrelevant. You are basically just saying that if you are going to be oppressed, then it's better to be oppressed in America. But they are still oppressed. I am not sure where you are getting at. The point of the OP is that America would have never gotten off the ground if we didn't have a solid foundation of oppression in place.