Sure there were slavers, Arabs maybe, who trekked into dark Africa, came upon some people, threw a net over them, hauled them off to sell as slaves. That's not hard to imagine, and for sure it happened. But I was sickened when I first heard that lots of slaves imported into the Americas from Africa were actually sold to the slavers by the chieftains. The chiefdom had excess population, some undesirables. Chieftains came to be regarded as "owning" their people. Hell, if you own something, you can sell it: right?
Oh those benighted Africans.
But what about American chieftains selling their people? Haven't heard of it? Think a minute: how else did the school system get the right to tell your kids what to do where and when?
One group kidnapped the kids to sell them to another group: industry. Present chieftains grabbed our children to train them in slavery to their future chieftains: Dupont, P. Lorillard ...
(this could be done better, that's just a scratched note, finger string)
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Isn't it the parents who sold them to industry?
Yes, Anonymous, certainly: the parents cooperated, co-authoring the modern destruction of the biological family. No government (no chiefdom, no fascism, no democracy, no communism) can do much to a public without cooperation from a public, with overlaps between the publics.
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