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Originally Posted by LS Jaun
'Many former slaves were interviewed during the Great Depression and recorded"
Well put some links down. I for one am interested in the history and like the saying goes "if you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it".
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You can visit the library of congress website for info on slave histories and the collection they have as well. You can also visit ancestry.com, they have a large amount of these interviews transcribed. I even found one of a lady my grandma knew! It was really interesting. The interviewee went to my family's church and my grandma knew her when grandma was a child and my great grandma knew her as well. Grandma never knew she was a slave until I found that transcription. It was on ancestry.com which I looked through for free at the library and just looked up my hometown and that interview came up.
In regards to the influence of colonialism, anyone would be better off not having their land stolen and their people killed or abused and being stripped of their humanity while also being relegated as sex slaves or slaves in general. Many people were made to be laborers for various European "companies" that set up shop in many areas around the world. I can agree that one would never know if another, native to a continent invader, would have been more brutal, but the people affected by colonizers like those who worked in rubber plants and who didn't work fast enough so had limbs chopped off, more than likely would have not worked in the rubber industry and would have lived their lives with their limbs.
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