Sunday, May 2, 2010

Thomas Sowell Talks Sense on Slavery

Thomas Sowell in his column today said that it is being taught in school history classes  that whites have always been the slavers and Africans have always been the slaves, which is totally wrong.  North Africans enslaved Western Europeans and treated them much worse than slaves in America were treated, including sentencing men to lifetimes on galleys.  The historic truth is that most people, especially Americans, have ancestors who were slaves and other ancesters who were slavers.  Slavery exists now, particularly in Africa, but kidnapping and enslavement of girls for prostitution goes on in many places, even in the United States, to our shame.

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