Maybe, as Orwell asserted in Animal Farm, some are just more equal than others.
History is about human events and human conduct as nearly as can be reconstructed through honest research.
However, taking slavery as an example.
All of us had ancestors who were slaves. We all had ancestors who were slave holders. NAs traded in slaves long before Europeans arrived. Black Africans were the first step in the slave trade. Europeans didn't become involved until they unfortunates arrived on the coast for transport.
Almost every civilization and culture in human history included the institution of slavery, until shamefully recently.
However, reading history texts for US children, a deep underlying impression is conveyed that slavery was almost unique to the US. That slavery was an institution perpetrated on black humans by white humans.
Humans were enslaved by other humans because power allowed them to do so.
Why the 'free pass' for non-whites by scholars?
2007-06-27
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