cont'd ...

I'll try again:

http://press-files.anu.edu/downloads/press/p72891/pdf/article0118.pdf

Just to blow the myth that slavery ended with the Civil War in America in 1865. State sanctioned slavery ended in the south states of the US in 1942. Until that year peonage still operated illegally. Then exploration of Negros continued through segregation and a pathetic wages system until today.

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/peonage/

Joe, if you are going to have a jab at Muslim; "Captured by other Africans, usually Muslim"

Why not have a crack at the Christians; "and taken to the European forts (USUALLY CHRISTIAN)". Just for balance.

Paul, I can't find the passage or reference to where it states the European forts are "usually Christians"?
Can you direct me to it please?

Today, more than 77 percent of land on earth, excluding Antarctica, has been modified by human industry, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, up from just 15 percent a century ago.

Has anyone even bothered to popularise the invisible human impact ? Radio waves for example ? Try to imagine the noises underwater & how it affects marine life ! These effects are equally destructive to what's happening on the surface.
The pleasure/leisure/tourism industries are some of the worst offenders.

Il Duce, I know English is not your first language, and at times I think it is not your second or third either, you seem to have your own language, all that maggot stuff etc, and I understand your level of English comprehension is at the remedial. But even a not so bright chap as yourself can work it out that European forts were run by European Christians, and not for argument sake European Hindus. Not forgetting slavery was sanctioned by your man himself, the Pope.

Hi Paul,

Yes, slavery has many fathers, and it was vile and brutal either way.

So when was the slave trade declared illegal anywhere in the world ? Wilberforce campaigned against it for decades until the trade was criminalised around 1806. A good friend of his was a bloke called Arthur Phillip, who declared that there would never be official slavery in the new colony of New South Wales, since henceforth all Aboriginal people would be considered to be British subjects, like everyone else there.

Even after the French Revolution, of liberty, equality and fraternity, the 'revolutionaries' didn't extend those principles to their slave colonies in the Caribbean: the people of Haiti had to fight a vicious war for fifteen-odd years to rid themselves of French rule and its slave system.

The British eventually outlawed slavery in the 1830s, Saudi Arabia officially in 1962. In some west African countries, it is still legal. I'm trying to find out if there were any societies which did the same at an earlier time, or had never had slavery at all, not even debt slavery like in India today. Perhaps you may know, Paul ?

Cheers,

Joe