@Sepespian yes, because there are vast swaths of Americans who only think slavery happened to people in Africa. Nobody is saying slavery isn't bad, especially chattel slavery, but ignoring historical slavery from some parts of the world in order to only look at what happened in America is asinine. The east African slave trade is still as brutal as ever, and is a far larger offense to civilized norms than the comparatively brief European African slave trade.
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@Sepespian yes, because there are vast swaths of Americans who only think slavery happened to people in Africa. Nobody is saying slavery isn't bad, especially chattel slavery, but ignoring historical slavery from some parts of the world in order to only look at what happened in America is asinine. The east African slave trade is still as brutal as ever, and is a far larger offense to civilized norms than the comparatively brief European African slave trade.