deber:   the fact that blacks were the only ones selling slaves.

 

Your article is accurate.  I’ve read much on the subject of slavery.  Slavery has been with us since the beginning of civilization.  Wars were fought and the losers or prisoners became slaves.  That is one kind of slavery.  Another kind is where people actually round up others and put them up for sale.  For some reason, the Africans do this even today.  

If slaves were not sold to one company, they were sold to another.  This was a business.  I think in the U.S., the need for slaves lasted longer than in other countries, therefore it persisted.

However it came about, it was a sad period in our history.     

Hi Deber.  Slaveholders throughout history did not institute the dire methods which were used by the American culture to keep the institution going.  The American culture promoted that Black slaves were ANIMALS with an incapability for human emotion or thought processes.  It is THIS campaign which makes American history of slaveholding more heinous than previous cultures and has resulted in the continued misunderstanding and bitterness between White and Black American citizens.  A country cannot spend 400 years practicing slavery (+) 143 years practicing the disenfranchisement of some of its citizens and truly believe that a good, long talk isn’t necessary in order to make amends.  If you were a counselor of ANY other stereotyped goup would you tell a troubled group member he was dealing with "a simplistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts."??  Talking in an open-minded and non-defensive way is the only way for us American citizens to get over our past and get on with our future.

The African kingdoms happily continued in their trade, therefore, only black people could be slaves and that is how the stereotype for African-American slavery was born.   It was not based on an ancestral hatred of blacks by whites, but simply on the fact that blacks were the only ones selling slaves. >

Yes, probably the first slaves were white — the word slave is taken from  Slavs, referring to Slavik persons kept as slaves. 

But proto-racism, i.e. the notion of "pure blood",  has existed in every culture since antiquity, though not based on the color of skin, but rather in being foreign or belonging to a separate group.  

 

 

The Chinese Exclusion Act was barbaric. >

Asians were not the only groups prohibited from immigrating to the U.S.   Southern and eastern Europeans were restricted, while German immigrants were favored.   Latino immigrants are the victims now, even though the U.S. has actually encouraged migrant workers.