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re: Watching Roots and its making me sick
Posted on 2/17/13 at 12:22 pm to TheOcean
Posted on 2/17/13 at 12:22 pm to TheOcean
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Also, what's your overall point? Seems like a random thing to mention unless you're trying to downplay how horrendous slavery was.
It's pointing out that white merchants landing in West Africa to capture slaves (like in Roots) was not the practice of the time.
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Posted on 2/17/13 at 12:24 pm to Patrick O Rly
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It's pointing out that white merchants landing in West Africa to capture slaves (like in Roots) was not the practice of the time.
Right, better to pay the natives to do it for them. I guess you could say it was better for the natives? (They didn't have to be slaves)
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