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If you buy humans instead of stealing/slaughtering them all, you sleep better at night.
If you buy humans instead of stealing/slaughtering them all, you sleep better at night?

The entire practice was horrible, end to end.  I just thought you might appreciate having your misapprehensions corrected, I see that apparently is incorrect, you prefer ignorance.  I'm not surprised.


NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography

If you care to read the links I posted, you MIGHT come to understand the dynamics involved.  Or not.  It might get too complicated.  Or boring.

And I sleep pretty well at night, in the main.  

I guess the Africans should have been mad at the Native Americans for being such crummy slaves?

native Americans kept slaves sometimes instead of murdering other tribes

this wasn't just some story of evil white men from Europe that had guns

Hell, you could leave race out of it.  The trans-Atlantic slave trade to the new world/colonies was so sinful because of the sheer volume of it.

You're comparing bands of tribes having squabbles and taking like 12 guys as slaves compared to hundreds of thousands to a million+ taken from across an ocean.
C'mon, man.

taking 12 slaves is OK???

WTF?

You should work at Fox News.

Direct quote from your link:

It is also fair to say that had there been no European demand for African slave labor in the New World, there would not have been any market for an African labor supply.

This is pretty obvious.  But Africans still had slavery, just on a much smaller scale.

The practice of slavery in the New World was wide spread, and horrible, from start to finish, probably worse than the practice in most other situations.

And the Spainish did enslave native Americans, often, generally in South America, and generally to obtain precious metals.   Spain became a world power on that basis.

Some native Americans in North American had their own slaves at times, and of course many fought for the South.  History is messy, and often does not rhyme at all.

There is a reason slave TRADE was outlawed in Europe and the US well before the US Civil War (1808 in the US).  It became widely viewed as barbaric.

So, in the US, slavery was often viewed as "OK", but the Atlantic slave trade was not.

And had there  been no Civil War, slavery would have persisted in the US for decades, I think, perhaps even to 1900.