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Old 04-27-2014, 05:00 AM
 
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Something I was never taught in school.
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Old 04-27-2014, 06:22 AM
 
Location: Miami, FL
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You really were never taught that?

Did you go to a "failed school?"
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Old 04-27-2014, 06:31 AM
 
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As you missed it in school heres a recap.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery..._United_States


Heres some notable slave traders.
Category:American slave traders - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-27-2014, 10:32 AM
 
Location: North of Canada, but not the Arctic
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Scary!
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Old 04-27-2014, 12:05 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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Hey kids, the OP started this thread earlier today with the title about Jews being involved in the slave trade and never having been taught that.

I didn't rise to the bait then.
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Old 04-27-2014, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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I went to an American school so I was taught about the slave trade. It was part of the curriculum in both elementary school and high school. I don't imagine it is as commonly (or as thoroughly) taught in countries that did not see the impact of slavery that the United States has.
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Old 04-27-2014, 03:26 PM
 
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Something I was never taught in school.
Hell that's about all that is taught.

"Well children now that we've covered slavery, tomorrow..."
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Old 04-27-2014, 03:33 PM
 
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Something I was never taught in school.
Everybody. The French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Norwegians, the Danes, the English, and the Portuguese were all active to one degree or another in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Old 04-27-2014, 07:03 PM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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The first to bring slaves to America were the Dutch.

Mystery of Va.'s First Slaves Is Unlocked 400 Years Later

The first to reintroduce the slave trade to the West were Muslims. Slavery had been exterminated in Christendom by about 1000 AD, but was rekindled around 1400 AD by Muslim slave traders who provided slave labor to Portuguese sugar plantations off the coast of Afirca.

Slavery was once again quashed in Christendom with the Ciivl war, but remained legal in Saudi Arabia until 1960.
Abolition of slavery timeline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 04-27-2014, 07:46 PM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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Something I was never taught in school.
Well, I was taught it in school, with a similar map in the textbook, and that was in the early Sixties, in a blue-collar community not particularly noted for a social conscience.

A few years later, I was also taught that slavery was an issue in the Ancient World, and that its Medieval cousins, serfdom and feudalism, weren't that much of an improvement.

What I was not taught was that slavery and/or exploitation of the Native peoples was an issue in most of the New World, or that the effort to abolish it was a general and prominent feature of what came to be called the Enlightenment.

The continuing "revision" of the treatment of slavery by the educational establishment, led by certain high-placed and high-minded individuals and groups is every bit as much a politicized campaign as everything that has come before it since 1865. Our next generation of statesmen and -women will, hopefully, be able to separate the grain of truth from the bushel of hype, and continue progress under a free and unbiased exchange of human opinion.
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