Posted by GeneMO on January 24, 2015 at 20:09:49 from (71.51.203.52):
In Reply to: 12 days a slave posted by rkh on January 24, 2015 at 19:04:54:
That was then, and this is now.
I know slavery was bad. It was wrong. Yet the Africans want to share none of the blame. The warring tribes would capture their enemies and sell them to the slavers.
But I have alway wondered. Slaves were very expensive and valuable for the times. We had livestock that "misbehaved" We put rings in sows noses, and put up electric fences.
But would you starve or beat a prize bull or boar hog? Would you beat any breeding stock?
My dad grew up with mules. They treated those mules like family. Their livelyhood depended on the health and ability to work that those animals had.
If you were a shrewed farmer with a large crop of cotton to harvest, do you want a bunch of beaten, half starved workers?
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