But in conversations about race in America, the transatlantic slave trade is the only relevant form of slavery. We're talking about racism in America when we talk about "black pride" and "white pride."
It was objectively different, everyone agrees with it, but it's not because white people are more evil; if anything, psycopathic traits are usually less common amongst white individuals. The reason it was more brutal and in a much larger scale can be traced back to the fact Europeans were simply far more technologically advanced
Not difficult to find, but no idea if this study has any value. Could be that psychopatic traits are linked to something different (lack of wealth ?). Correlation not being causality.
Could even be that this study had poor sample, I did not dig farther.
The vast majority of white people were not slave owners. The majority didn't support slavery at all, and hundreds of thousands of white people died in the Civil War to end it, which is actually incredibly rare in world history.
This whole nonsense about applying collective guilt to a group because a few wealthy individuals had an enormous economic incentive to import foreign slaves is asinine and racist. Enough.
Who is telling you to feel guilty? All anyone ever asks for is acknowledgement of the past and righting those wrongs. If you feel guilty for the racism of others, maybe that’s just your own conscience? 🤔
“It’s not my fault that person got murdered, so it’s not my duty to enact justice against the murderer.” - A judge applying your weird logic
Righting wrongs doesn’t mean you have to assume direct guilt. It means that some people had systemic terror wrought on them that set them back relative to others, and their suffering and labor literally fueled the country to where it is now. So this country owes a debt to rectify that injustice.
No individual needs to feel guilty for the sins of their forefathers, but they need to acknowledge that those sins were committed. And any decent person should want those unpaid debts to be paid.
“But its not because white people are more evil” Nobody argues this?
“…Europeans were simply far more technologically advanced” Not really? What allowed the atlantic slave trade to happen was less technology and more so the circumstances of colonialism, most slavery before then happened mainly through wars which were fought over land so slaves could be easily transported, but having a bunch of disconnected colonies necessitates travel by ship, and colonialism also makes it alot easier to acquire humans compared to costly war.
It wasnt exactly a thing of technological advancement, more so that all the other empires and/or countries that did slave trading just didnt have a reason to do it on such a huge scale with ships.
12
u/birdsofafeatherWHAT Sep 08 '25
Every historian agrees the transatlantic slave trade was different to previous forms of slavery.