My point is the hypocrisy of ragging on the US slave trade while they were the ones that set it up and bought products made by it. I’m not washing the USA’s sin here but it’s only fair to remember Europe’s place in it
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted.
Europe has definitely done a lot of horrible things around the world. Britain for example banned/killed of the textile industry in India (which at one time was 25% of the worlds production) to monopolize that industry at home (which is also why they imported cotton from the America’s). Let’s also not forget that the Confederates were white, European, colonial Settlers.
It’s not just cotton buying, but the whole system / Trade Triangle around Slavery that was created by Europeans and that lead to those crimes
Daily reminder Europe funded the Confederacy bybuying slave cotton
Edit down voting doesn’t erase your crimes
I mean we still buy phones, cars, clothes, chocolate, jewels made by slave labor
My point is the hypocrisy of ragging on the US slave trade while they were the ones that set it up and bought products made by it. I’m not washing the USA’s sin here but it’s only fair to remember Europe’s place in it
Chattel Slavery. And no one here is insinuating any slavery is good. But you’re apparently saying the US is above reproach “because others did it”.
All slavery, including the ~400 years of chattel slavery, as well as that permitted by the clause in the 13th amendment, is bad.
Dunno why you’re getting downvoted. Europe has definitely done a lot of horrible things around the world. Britain for example banned/killed of the textile industry in India (which at one time was 25% of the worlds production) to monopolize that industry at home (which is also why they imported cotton from the America’s). Let’s also not forget that the Confederates were white, European, colonial Settlers. It’s not just cotton buying, but the whole system / Trade Triangle around Slavery that was created by Europeans and that lead to those crimes