(September 22, 2016 at 4:01 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 22, 2016 at 3:56 pm)RobertE Wrote:
This is idiotic on too many levels to count. Slavery was an institute in America before the USA even existed. And it certainly wasn't a black man owning the first slaves there. It was all kinds of people, ranging from the Spanish, the british, maybe the Dutch, but I'm not sure if they even had slaves.
It's also idiotic because it's the one off example. The one that stands out in the army of white slave owners - stands out in the way that if someone wants to make a point of tu quoque can resort to that example being made available by who knows who.
Certainly the Spanish were using slaves very quickly after the discovery of the Americas, also the Dutch definitely did use slaves exterminating the native population of an entire island and replacing them with a workforce of slaves bought from Zanzibar.
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