I also like the comment that there WERE white slaves before Indian or black slaves. Although they went by the name of indentured servants, they suffered none-the-less. That being said, I don’t disagree with anything being said though.

I myself am from a VERY mixed heritage. To this day, I am confused as to what to mark on the Ethnicity box/LABEL on every single form that is out there. I finally decided to check other and put Native American/White mix. My great grandparents were the red man as you called him from one side and British from the other. My Native American ancestors gave up their land rights due to fear from the government and persecution from others. Because of this, the U.S. government says they must now declare themselves as white, but on today’s ethnicity labels..it says caucasian. Not all white people are from Europe/Eurasia which is what it means.

But please do remember, that before Black slavery, there was also White slavery. Maybe lesser in magnitude, but nevertheless there!

Where I come from, we have a concept of “shubh labh” which governs trade. Shubh labh basically means, benign and ethical profits. I would like to go further and say that ‘dealing’ in slaves, whether as a buyer or seller, makes no difference. It is equally abominable.

How is that in India slavery never took root. I am sure that the same Black and Arab traders would have sold slaves to Indians too. Why didn’t Indians buy and sell slaves?

It is not that “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” only – (with due apologies to Shakespeare) but with all these slave owning cultures – and their continued defence of slavery!

And thanks for your feedback.

To a 16th century white european of course you may have seen men of all one shade and assumed them to be all the same. but what you could have is one etnic group selling another, so hardly brothers selling one and other. If another ethnic group lived on some prime real estate that you wanted simple raid them and voila, you have some wares from those happy white men and the other people are gone.

if you take that simplistic view you could argue, the troubles in northern ireland were a un-holy squabble between two groups of the same people, everyone is white and they are all christians the subtle detail being, the history of ireland and conquest of catholic ireland by protestant british mainlanders and the conflict that that has wrought on the face of a beautiful country.

or maybe frequent wars between france and great britain throughout history, if you want to be simple ascribe as people killing their own brothers (they are both white) history is a lot of fine print, please i love your blog but don’t be so blind