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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of Democracy
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 20:51:54 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 04/11/2024 20:48, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2024, Peter Flass wrote:
> 
>> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 2 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 1 Nov 2024 22:30:39 +0100, D wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there was a significant
>>>>> demand for labor in plantations across the Americas and on islands 
>>>>> such
>>>>> as Mauritius and Réunion. This demand fueled a slave trade that 
>>>>> affected
>>>>> many African communities. While much of this trade involved 
>>>>> individuals
>>>>> from coastal regions or areas further north, it also extended into
>>>>> southern Africa.
>>>>
>>>> With a whole continent full of indigenous labor they imported Africans.
>>>> The truth is while the Cherokee didn't have a problem enslaving people
>>>> from other tribes they saw the value of buying Africans instead. 
>>>> When they
>>>> headed to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears they took their African slaves
>>>> with them.
>>>
>>> Really? So indians bought negro slaves? Had no idea! In europe, indians
>>> can do no wrong, and their history is held up as a paragon of 
>>> eco-friendly
>>> and just, which was crushed by the bad white man.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> They enslaved people from other tribes, too. Without plantation 
>> agriculture
>> it wasn’t that common.
> 
> I'll never trust a democrat when it comes to US history again! What else 
> has been hidden from me? In europe, indians are these sweet little 
> nature people who can do no wrong, and who were abused by the white man. 
> That's the only story around the european mainstream.

Not really. Indians are what Indians are.

No one is blameless.

-- 
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as 
foolish, and by the rulers as useful.

(Seneca the Younger, 65 AD)