Kudos again mhaze. But I like Gone With The Wind. Tomorrow is another day.

Frankly, Canem, I don't give a damn

Hi Trumpster,

The Maori invasion of the Chatham Islands took place in 1835, about 300 Moriori were killed, and a large number put into bondage (slavery). Surprisingly as the Chatham Islands are about 800km east of Aotearoa, the invaders were from the Taranaki district, not from the south. My wife's history tells her that her iwi (tribe) Ngapuhi often raided the tribes in the Waikato particularly the Tainui iwi, taking prisoners including women, as well as lots of plunder!

BTW, My wife's brother-in-law is a decedent of Tommy Solomon, the last full blooded living Moriori person, he passed away in 1933. They took a trip to the Islands a few years back.

But I still don't know what the relevance of tribal slavery has in a discussion about African slavers. Please inform.

OK. I'll explain it again.

There was slavery all over the world in almost every era of world history as far back as we can see. Yet the grifters and the UN (but I repeat myself) only want to talk about one aspect of that slavery (African) and one period (17-19th century).

And not only that, they only want to talk about the African slavery that headed west while ignoring the much greater volumes of slaves that headed east into the Arab nations where most died in the transit or died under servitude.

And not only that, but they only want to talk about the African slavery that headed to North America, ignoring the vastly greater numbers that headed to South America, where most died under servitude.

And not only that, but they only want to talk about the African slavery that ended up in what became the USA ignoring the numbers that went into what became Canada and Mexico.

So out of the 60-80 million slaves that were 'shipped' out of Africa, they only want to talk about the 400-500 thousand that went to the area that became the USA. They only want to talk about 0.7% of the total.

And why? Because its only in the USA that they stand the slightest chance of getting a payout.

And that's why I said, at the very beginning, that its just another money grab from the usual grifters and the UN (but I repeat myself).

Good come back Rhett Butler I mean mhaze. And the South doesn't have any canon factories but a lot of proud men.

And thanks for repeating the information about slavery, as you've said previously there were slaves from Europe too.

Hi Kudos Kid,

I agree much of the wealth of the world today was built on slavery. Who can forget that your beloved "Third Reich" exploited a huge amount of slave labour as Nazi corporations. Fabulously wealthy businesses of today were built on cruel exploitation, such multi-nationals as; BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Siemens, Bayer, BASF, Allianz, Deutsche Bank and Hugo Boss.