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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
Every part of the world had slavery, but the slave societies that existed in the Americas are unique in that their economies were built around slave labour, and as such, imported millions of people for the sole purpose of slavery - people who's status was then further reinforced by race-based discrimination.
The legacy of that is that these former slave societies now have significant underclass populations.
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I don't understand the people who don't seem to get that the slavery that existed in ancient times isn't the same as the chattel slavery and importation of slaves to the Americas that occurred during colonization.
While a horrible topic, slavery in the Americas is interesting to read about. For example, I did not know that in Brazil, slavery existed until the late 1880s. And, some former colonizing countries like to "brag" that they ended slavery in such-and-such year, but what they don't put out there is that some of them still encouraged the breeding of slaves, and though some stopped exporting slaves from Africa, they still traded slaves from among other countries and colonies in the Americas/Caribbean.
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Originally Posted by Obadno
For some reason nobody gets angry at Spain and Portugal despite them being the perpetrators of almost all colonial atrocities and most of the slave trade
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They don't?
In regards to slavery in Canada, it existed. Aside from what went on with the first peoples, no African slaves were directly imported into Canada from Africa, but African slaves did enter Canada through the American colonies.