What if slavery still existed? what if blacks enslaved whites?

Question

we had a discussion about this in class at my college. just curious, do you think blacks today could have been slaves?what if the tables turned?

Answer 1

that would be hilarious!!! hmmmmmmm

Answer 2

I answered a similar question and I am going to use part of that answer here. I would be curious of what your class the people here and "you" are willing to give-up or do in response. Can I assume by your avatar you are an Afro-American? I am a Civil War buff and got into an argument with the leaders of the Afro American community here in Virginia. They and many Afro-Americans dislike the Confederate Battle Flag their excuse is it reminds them of slavery. You might be aware that the Slavery Museum is being built here in Virginia and when I asked what that reminded them of; I was asked to leave the meeting. What I can not understand if the Afro-Americans here in the States are so anti-slavery why aren't they and you fighting slavery in the modern world? Is it all right to complain about what happened a 140 years ago but you won't take any steps to prevent from happening today?

You say you didn't know about modern slavery? Well, now you do, anyone who has had such a issue with slavery as the Afro-Americans should be studying the issue and organizing bans, boycotts and marches. Lets' start with the number two (2) area that being Chocolate, you should ensure that your family, friends and school boycott Chocolate that means candy, ice cream and hot chocolate, etc. The big companies have the power to make sure the Egyptians and others quit using slaves to gather the Coca Beans.

The number one (1) area is the sex trade, videos, prostitution and children. You cannot do much there but you could ensure the issue becomes publicized.

Number three (3) is Coffee and you should do the same thing as you should do with chocolate.

Number four (4) is drugs and it is even worse with this area (I believe they should be legalized; it worked in the Netherlands and would be a God sent to the Country) is that the profits are used to kill us.

God Bless You and The Southern People.

Answer 3

Slavery never went anywhere. It simply got phased out in some instances and abolished in others. In the Western world, it is hardly a memory but there are countries where it is perfectly normal.

'Blacks' today, across the Atlantic are, for the most part, descendants of slaves, but were not slaves themselves, because they were born in what is termed the 'free world' and, despite all the hardships of everyday life for them, still, they are not slaves of the olden days, who were brought here on ships from Africa and made to work in fields, no pay, 'do as I say or else', etc. I want to say that the world today is not as free as we ought to have it nor as it is described, but slavery as it was known then is not the same as being 'hard-pressed' today.

It would not be a good thing to turn the tables. I long for peace; not more strife and confusion. In fact, that's what the world needs, PEACE!

Answer 4

I think that because education has become such a widespread given, information has become so easily available through the internet which you can get for cheap (or free at the library), and communication also made cheap and easy today, slavery on a large-scale would not be possible. Consider, when you think about this, the peoples who have been oppressed for centuries by underdeveloped countries and where they stand today now that globalization is taking over even the most remote cities and bringing with it a higher standard of living and new cultural ideals. How are women doing in Africa? How is the caste system in India being viewed by the younger generations there? Etc.
I love class discussions! :)

Answer 5

contributors of the black race were bought into slavery by technique of their own RACE. contributors of one African tribe would seize persons from yet another and promote THEM. verify your heritage and study something! So, once you have an interest in enslaving everyone, then the blacks might want to enslave themselves and promote themselves to all different races, through the indisputable fact that became what became achieved contained in the previous. You suggested it, the Crusades is previous heritage -- study from it and flow on! i wager you imagine that Israel might want to visit warfare with Egypt because Egypt enslaved the Jews about 4,000 years in the past and for 500 years at that! i imagine it really is time that the blacks in us of a were given over the slavery component. there is not one human being alive on the instantaneous contained in the U.S. who owned a slave and all those that did died almost one hundred years in the past! except for some radical communities like the KKK or the floor Heads, no one needs to reinstate slavery. that is been my adventure that, frequently, the blacks are a lot more effective racist than the whites. it really is time to stop blaming everyone else on your issues. in case you haven't said, contributors of each and every race has issues.

Answer 6

It seems to me that you must have the western world ( the Americas ) in mind. If i am correct I think if you tried to enslave the blacks in the US to day you would have greater problems than what's happening in Iraq. In the old days the winners made slaves of the losers regardless of race. Also as I understand it there are some parts of the world where slavery is still practiced.

Answer 7

The word Slave comes from the word "Slav" refering to the Slavic people the Romans enslaved (white people from Northern Europe). So you see white people were enslaved at one time too.

Slavery has occurred through out all of human history. We are an enlightened people so we have abolished it.

It turns out that being oppresive really hurts the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Answer 8

I know this might sound weird, but it does happen today. Many people are into BDSM (bondage, discipline, sadism, masochism). Most of the time this is a chosen lifestyle, but I was in a situation with someone who I called "master" that got WAY out of control. Once the relationship became unhealthy, I tried to leave and he threatened me. I eventually did leave after being in the hospital for a few days.

I say all this to express that slavery may be illegal but it still happens. In the streets every day with "escorts", in marriages, in relationships but people don't want to talk about it. Don't get me wrong- not all inter-racial relationships are that way. I just know that I can help inspire and open people's minds if I continue to have the courage to share my experience, strength and hope with others.

Answer 9

To answer your first question: slavery still exists. Though most like to think it only happens in "lesser developed countries", which in some cases it does, and despite the UN's attempts to stop it, slavery still exists. There are places where the stereotypical slavery exists but the most common form in the modern era is sex rings; women and men from foreign "exotic" countries are either tricked or willingly sell themselves into sexual slavery and taken to the more "advanced" countries to work as prostitutes. However since they are smuggled into these countries illegally they have little to no rights and when caught are usually shipped back to their home-countries only to be caught (those who sell themselves have "contracts" that are fulfilled one way or another) and sent to a different country for the same purpose.

Though this type of slavery has been on going for centuries, it only came to the attention of most people via television and movies and even then most people believe it is "exaggerated to make a good story". Check out the BBC website, every now and then they will have an article about the crack-down British police made on these sex rings and about shelters being set up to help these people, modern attempts at the Underground Railroad, so to speak.

To your second question I say, historically, they all ready have. In the ancient world, the slave trade was extensive and there is archaeological evidence of Gauls, Celts, Goths, Franks, etc. (basically the ancient tribes that eventually because the Germans, English, French and Spanish) being shipped as far as the African kingdoms in modern Ethiopia to work as slaves: their "golden hair" was a prize commodity and often used by members of the upper class to makes wigs. Also, it was a sign of power to have such an exotic foreign slave in Africa, what with the risk of him/her dying on the trip from Europe.

To your thrid question, anyone can be made a slave under the right circumstances. Take a person out of an area they are familiar with, force them to dwell amount people who look different, act different, speak different, abuse them for not understanding, force them to live under harsh conditions, breaking their will to fight back, and you can turn ANYONE into a slave, even in this day and age. Slavery is as much a mind set as it is a physical state of being.

Finally, your last question, we would still have today what we have now, only the the majority would be black and the minority would be white. All the stereotypes associated today with whites and blacks would be reversed. Because, inorder for the "tables to be turned" you would have to change the very start of it all, in the ancient world.

The diversity of culture, religions, language, natural resources, varying climates, access to the ocean were all elements that ontributed to the "advance" of the "white race". The developement of agriculture, the specialization of trade, stratification of work and developement of classes freed up a good portion of the population to engage in conquest, in war, which is what ultimately leades (sadly enough) to a country's strenght over others.

Now, before people start jumping down my throat, there were several ancient African kingdoms that has agriculture, class distinction, a stratified working class (farmers, merchants, traders, specialists), and an excellent military (the kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia were two mentioned by the Egyptians, Greeks and Romans as having power and influence equal to their own) but what they lacked was easy access to the rest of the world and, thus, contact with the other nations. To get from these countries to Egypt (the closes ancient power house), one would have to cross several mountain ranges, a desert or two, up several rivers, and over three or four monsterous cateracts (things waterfalls on steroids). It was easier, then, to focus on the nations to the south than the countries to the north.

However, this limited them to the associations with peoples having similar ideas, ways and technology, where the countries to the north borrowed, stole and improved on ideas from as far norther as Britian and as far East as China. One would have to take away the barriors (mountians, deserts and waterfalls) that isolated the African nations to give them a change as becoming a dominate power. Once that is done we are still assuming alot of things when we say "the tables are turned and blacks are in charge" because we then have to assume they were interested in the colonization of America, had gotten a strong enough foot hold in the New World and won many key battles to obtain complete control, yet were terrible enough "masters" to force the colonists to rebel.

There are no simple "what ifs" when it comes to history, though they do make for wonderful stories.

~~ Abaddon

Answer 10

Not possible now. With the current strong law's against any form of discrimination, no chances for slavery where law is present.
You may get sued !! So think twice!!

Answer 11

WHAT IF ?

What do you mean?

SLAVERY still exists today!

It's not LEGAL here in the U.S. - but it still exists.

In some places it is WIDESPREAD. It's a HUGE problem.