2006-09-14 08:44:16 · 34 answers · asked by Kevin O 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Why don't you go to a rough, all-black neighborhood and ask that question. Instead of here, being an anonyoms chicken. See how long it'll take for you to get beat up. Or worse. Banana brain!
2006-09-14 09:49:59 · answer #1 · answered by hbsizzwell 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
After reading the first few answers, most people are so offended by this question, but yet no one mentions the fact that women in most Middle Eastern countries are treated like property TODAY! A man can rape his wife's sister, or decide he no longer wants his wife and murder her, and this is celebrated in most of the Middle East. Young women can be raped if they do not cover themselves from head to toe, but the man goes unpunished. But yet everyone goes on and on about the "black" slave trade. What about the slave trade still going on????
Most of you go on about the African slave trade, while I do agree that that is wrong, it is still going on today! Get your mind out of the liberal media and into world events.
Everyone cries how the white colonists bought slaves, but few mention that it was the black chiefs that sold their own people! Talk about racism!
While this may sound like a racial question, the person asking may just want an opinion. Quit calling everything racist.
2006-09-14 12:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dawn C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To sell any human into bondage is a crime and a dark and sinister period of our American history. I work in Oil and Gas and it was a chilling thing when I came across my first slave deed. Yes, people were sold and traded like pieces of land or stock animals.
White Colonists were supposed to be the ones responsible for the slave trade but there were just as many Black Africans who made huge amounts of money for that day and time by kidnapping and selling young Africans into the slave trade.
2006-09-14 09:50:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If anything?? Everything was wrong with the slave trade. To treat people like a bunch of animals, how can that be right??
2006-09-14 08:58:21 · answer #4 · answered by Caleb's Mom 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Apparently it offends some. Actually a lot has to do with if you are the slave or the trader. The Bible does not condemn it. As a matter of fact there are rules in the Bible about how to treat a slave. France has never outlawed it, nor has 75% of Africa or Asia. It is in some cases, an economic necessity. Some people in S.E. Asia are sold into slavery to settle a debt. This accounts, a lot, for the prostitution rampant in those areas. Also, in some Eastern European contries, you can sell yourself into slavery.
It all depends on your view.
2006-09-14 10:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
there was a hell of alot wrong with the slave trade,if you mean the american slave trade. ive just done my dissertation on what came first slavery or racism,there are alot of really good sites online that deal with this issue. also look up treatment of slaves,conditions on plantations,slave family life,etc.
2006-09-14 08:55:19 · answer #6 · answered by foxyasfcuk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything was wrong with slave trade.Without the african tribe´s
chiefs,who sold their own people to traders and later helped them
to hunt and catch more and more men,women and children,the
slave trade would never have happened.
And without slave trade,America would have had and have less
problems.
2006-09-14 09:31:39 · answer #7 · answered by Fritz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are an idiot, slave trade was one of the most awful chapters of black history, whats wrong with it? Racism, discrimination to black people, brutal torture, being judged by skin colour, how can you ask such a question, whats wrong with people sending you away to another contry to be beaten and to go through slave labour, go back to sleep little boy you oviously dont know anything
2006-09-14 08:45:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the main thing wrong with the slave trade is/was that YOU weren't sold as slave to a tribe of sadistic homosexual cannibals
2006-09-15 00:16:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slave \Slave\, n. [Cf. F. esclave, D. slaaf, Dan. slave, sclave, Sw. slaf, all fr. G. sklave, MHG. also slave, from the national name of the Slavonians, or Sclavonians (in LL. Slavi or Sclavi), who were frequently made slaves by the Germans. See Slav.]
1. A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another.
2. One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever;
Sounds like we American's...Don't it?...PoP
2006-09-15 14:31:45 · answer #10 · answered by Tommy A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋