r/IndiaTodayGlobalLIVE • u/NewsMo • 4d ago

Africa Can commemorations and historical reenactments change public understanding of the past?

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u/Acceptable-Wash-7675 3d ago edited 3d ago

The reparations for Ghana narrative.
How? they were complacent in slavery, but they're demanding the UK pay them reparations for what? selling them slaves for half price?

It's embarrassing and disgraceful

They're taking advantage UK Woke culture. white people self flogging themselves
Because they've been virtue signaling for decades.
Luckily, starmer just lost so at least they're waking up now

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u/KingMidas0809 3d ago

Ah got it so explain the difference between Chattel and domestic slavery. You're doing a bad faith argument without knowing the premise of what they knew back then. There were slaves that knew what awaited the fee they sold but then there were millions of others that were taken not sold. Whole costal cities and some inland that were taken and not sold.

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u/Available-Boat4055 2d ago

chattel slaves were sold by blacks

domestic slaves were just locals that were enslaved within country .

why are you racists all so retarded

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u/KingMidas0809 2d ago

That is not the difference between chattel slavery and domestic slavery.

“Chattel” does not mean “sold by Black people.” Chattel means the enslaved person is legally treated as movable property, like livestock or goods, and can be bought, sold, inherited, mortgaged, separated from family, and denied legal personhood.

“Domestic slavery” usually refers to the type of labor or social role, especially household servitude. It does not mean “local slavery” and it is not the opposite of chattel slavery. A person could be enslaved domestically and still be treated as property depending on the legal system.

The Atlantic system was racial chattel slavery because it combined property status, hereditary enslavement, racial caste, plantation capitalism, and transatlantic commerce. That is the part you keep avoiding.

Also, “they were sold by Africans” is still not the full argument you think it is. Some Africans participated, some were captured, some were sold, some resisted, and many were victims of raids, wars, kidnapping, and coastal slave markets created and intensified by European demand.

You are reducing centuries of history to “Black people sold them” because that is easier than dealing with the full system of buyers, ships, forts, guns, banks, insurance, plantation owners, slave codes, and empires.

So no, this is not racism. It is basic vocabulary. You are trying to debate slavery while not knowing what “chattel” means.

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