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IMO people working in factories are also slaves. People who work for a minimum wage are slaves. I am not sure how many free people are left, but I think it is very little. Most people are bound to rules, from their boss, from their government, from others. Even nomads are no longer free to roam the desert, they are now bound by country borders. They have to have a 'home address' where the govt comes to collect taxes. If there is no money, they will take the livestock, and if that is gone, they confiscate the house, often destroy it. There is a doc on the tube about Tinarewen, where one of the leaders of the group tells his story. Modern slavery. Make people dependent on factories, wages, tax them, bind them.

Patrick says

Every culture had slavery, until white people forced an end to it worldwide

Actually still going strong in Africa, one of the places where it's existed the longest. Slavery in Africa has been going on longer than the US has existed.

NuttBoxer says

Patrick says

Every culture had slavery, until white people forced an end to it worldwide

Actually still going strong in Africa, one of the places where it's existed the longest(longer than the US has existed).

It's in Libya now, thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Patrick says

Every culture had slavery, until white people forced an end to it worldwide

Yet another example of White Privilege.

https://www.dailyveracity.com/2021/06/20/white-people-were-the-first-to-end-slavery-and-were-nowhere-near-the-biggest-slavers/

Ingrid says

IMO people working in factories are also slaves. People who work for a minimum wage are slaves. I am not sure how many free people are left, but I think it is very little.

That and along with people that are heavily in debt to the banks for their mortgages, credit cards, student loans, etc. Whether they know it or not, they are slaves to their lenders.

NuttBoxer says

Actually still going strong in Africa, one of the places where it's existed the longest. Slavery in Africa has been going on longer than the US has existed.

That is a taboo subject that makes a lot of liberals go crazy because they've been convinced that slavery was invented by the white race. Blacks simply cannot be slave masters because it's against their DNA, blah, blah, blah.

Example of white guy ending slavery abroad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles

Raffles arrived in Bencoolen on 19 March 1818, where he was appointed as the lieutenant-governor of Bencoolen on 22 March 1818. Despite the prestige connected with the title of Lieutenant-Governor, Bencoolen was a colonial backwater, whose only real export was pepper, and only the murder of a previous Resident, Thomas Parr, gained it any attention back home in Britain. Raffles found the place wrecked, and set about reforms immediately, mostly similar to what he had done in Java; abolishing slavery and limiting cockfighting and such games. To replace the slaves, he used a contingent of convicts, already sent to him from India.

I'm named for St. Patrick, who was a Christian Celt (maybe Welsh) captured off the British coast as a boy and enslaved by the Irish.

The Irish in turn were sometimes carried off and enslaved by Vikings.

Every group had slavery at some point. Every single one of them. Black Americans are not at all special that way.

This is how you know whites are being persecuted.

Patrick says

The Irish in turn were sometimes carried off and enslaved by Vikings.

And Ottomans, who had actual slave raids on the Irish coast.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1949596214183530565

Slavery was standard practice throughout Earth until it was almost entirely ended principally by Anglo-American forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. Slavery still exists in some parts of the world btw.

I’m not suggesting Britain was purely angelic, but, nonetheless, this is true.

https://x.com/i/grok/share/K7zMtQz97AShW100cdUo2Hgbj

The post references the historical enslavement of approximately one million white Europeans by the Barbary pirates along England's south coast, notably through the case of Thomas Pellow, a Cornish sailor captured in 1716 and enslaved for 23 years under Moroccan Sultan Moulay Ismail, as detailed in his 1740 captivity narrative, a rare firsthand account of such events often overshadowed by the transatlantic slave trade narrative.
Historical records, including estimates from the 16th to 19th centuries by scholars like Robert Davis, suggest 1 to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by North African corsairs, with Pellow’s experience reflecting a broader pattern of raids supported by a Moroccan military system that integrated European converts, challenging the one-sided focus on European culpability in slavery discussions.
The trans-Saharan slave trade, active from 650 AD to the 20th century, moved 6-10 million sub-Saharan Africans to the Arab world, per Paul Lovejoy’s research, indicating a significant but less-discussed parallel to the Atlantic trade, which may explain the post’s provocative question about reparations for white victims.

Yes, and the Moroccans and Ottomans castrated the male slaves. No need to breed slaves when you have an unlimited supply.

https://x.com/KonstantinKisin/status/1951244705884148170

Understanding history means confronting uncomfortable truths, not rewriting them.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1957892462552506486

17-year-old girl sold her boyfriend into slavery for $14,000 and went on vacation to Thailand.

A 19-year-old boy in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, China, was sold to the Triumph Telecom Fraud Park in Myanmar for RMB 100,000 ($14,000) by his 17-year-old cohabiting girlfriend in February this year.

In February this year, he went to Bangkok, Thailand with his girlfriend, without telling his family.

Unexpectedly, after arriving at the Thai-Myanmar border, he was escorted away by the gunman, and his passport and mobile phone were confiscated.

After arriving there, he was shaved his hair and locked in a dark room. He was forced to engage in telecommunications fraud every day. If his performance did not meet the standard, he was beaten.

He was forced to work 16 to 20 hours a day. Because he was a "commodity" that was resold by girlfriend
for 100,000 yuan, the leader forced him to "create performance" on this basis.

If he didn’t complete the task, he was locked up in a small dark room and beaten with iron rods. In a long-term high-pressure environment, his weight plummeted by tens of kilograms, his skin became dark, and his ears were almost deaf due to long-term beatings.

In June this year, his family, with the assistance of the Chaoshan Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, paid about RMB 350,000 ($49,000) after many negotiations, before taking him home safely.

As for his girlfriend, who "sold her boyfriend", she stayed in Thailand for 10 days, then returned to China, and was immediately controlled by the police.

She is now transferred to the prosecution on suspicion of fraud. The trial, which was originally scheduled to be postponed in July, will be reopened in the near future. The victim’s sister scolded: "She is only 17 years old. Who would have thought that she could do such a thing? The whole family hopes that the court will severely punish her.”

https://mises.org/mises-wire/african-slavery-other-side

Many Americans today mistakenly believe that slavery was invented by America or that it existed only in the context of the transatlantic slave trade. This narrow view—often echoed in modern demands for reparations—paints white societies as uniquely responsible for slavery’s horrors. Yet long before European ships reached Africa’s coasts, Africans were capturing, owning, and exploiting slaves in systems that were brutal and widespread. To confront the full truth about slavery, we must acknowledge African complicity in its expansion and persistence. Slavery was not simply imposed on Africans from outside—it was also defended by African elites, embedded in political and social institutions, and violently protected by rulers who depended on it for their power.

In precolonial Africa, slavery was not marginal. It was central to the economic structure of many societies. In Asante, for example, slaves were the backbone of agricultural production. From the 18th century onward, villages of slaves worked the land to feed armies and the aristocracy. These slave villages were located far from the capital, Kumasi, and produced the food and raw materials that sustained the ruling class.

Slave labor was used not only in farming but also in gold mining and kola nut cultivation. After the end of the transatlantic slave trade, when selling slaves to Europeans became difficult, Asante elites simply redirected their slaves into domestic economic production. Instead of trading them abroad, they put them to work in the countryside. The scale was significant: the state redistributed these slaves to lineage leaders and chiefs, who used them to fuel new agricultural enterprises, including the early cocoa plantations that would later define Ghana’s export economy. ...