On Jul 2, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Anita Wills wrote:

> That may be your interpretation, but it is contrary to historical  
> facts. Of course your information is coming from those who enslaved  
> Africans. Slavery is not an African nor Native word, it is a  
> European word.
Actually, it referred to a group of folks who were called Slavs from  
eastern Europe and who were commonly looked to as sources of labor.  
The name jumped from blond haired, blue eyed slaves to anyone else  
who was not free. The concept is as old as "civilization" where one  
group could impose its will on another. As soon as excess labor was  
needed, slavery could begin. Who knows when it really began, but  
putting it on one group is a nonsense historically.

> There may have been captives held after wars, but they were not  
> told that they were slaves for life
That is simply not the case. Please do a google search before you do  
these posts or read up on the subject.

> , and were eventually  integrated into the tribes (even in Muslim  
> Countries).
That is simply more not the case. Slaves were slaves for most groups  
without precondition or expectation and it was for life. In the  
Muslim countries, the million Europeans left horrific accounts of  
treatment far worse than any African received in the USA, not that it  
excused it, obviously.

> The same with Native Americans.
Only with women, adolescents and adults young enough to be malleable.  
The alternative was to be killed prior to enslavement. Nice choice.

> No group except Americans attempted to brain wash a people into  
> believing that God ordained them to be slaves.
Do you not read previous posts? Islam says it is fine for infidels to  
be enslaved and that's the direct WOG from the Koran.

> That is why racism continues to rear it's ugly head in America.
You have got to be kidding. Most of the racist nitwits I have  
listened to, white, black, red and yellow, have been taught to  
uncritically think of the others as inferior for no really valid  
reason, just a bunch of half-lies conveniently twisted and parroted  
until some knucklehead without even half a brain believes it. It's  
handed down from dim generation to dim generation.

Lyle



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> Anita
>
>
>> From: Basil Forest <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia  
>> history              <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: Re: Nat Turner and unchanging history
>> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 12:15:01 EDT
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>> Slavery was contrary to Christ's teachings and an abomination.    
>> However,
>> those black Africans who were brought to the colonies were  
>> originally  enslaved
>> by their African 'brothers" and were lucky to leave their  
>> servitude in  Africa
>> for the much more benign treatment they received on this side of the
>> Atlantic, and ultimately received their freedom while their  
>> African slave  "brothers"
>> continued to be enslaved in Africa until the 20th  century.
>>
>> Basil Forest
>>
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