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Originally Posted by hallelujah
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Well besides the countless times elites were legally allowed to murder their slaves, which was not the case among the Atlantic slave trade. But lets think of some other examples.
Slaves that were forced into prostitution or fights to the death, fed to animals for the amusements of crowds, slaves that were castrated, slaves that were worked literally to death in mining operations, slaves that were castrated and forced from birth to become elite soldiers (Janissary are a famous example), forced to be slave in a rowing warship etc.
Im not saying that there was anything good about African slaves but to claim it was somehow worse or more evil than other forms of slavery is simply not true.