Subj : Sowell on Slavery
To   : ALL
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Nov 08 2022 15:16:00

As someone brought it up here recently:

https://youtu.be/_lYAirsk0tk

Also, although it was outlawed in Western Europe, on European soil, it is
not completely accurate to say that European countries were not still
practicing forms of slavery before, and after, the US Civil War.  During WW I,
which started roughly 50 years after slavery was outlawed in the US, the war
spilled out from Europe and into the African colonies as the European leaders
hoped to use the conflict to gain more territory.

While France apparently treated most of their colonial subjects as well as
their citizens, the same cannot be said for the UK and Germany.  Many of
the subjects were conscripted into the armed forces before conscription was
mandatory in other parts of the empires, and were not treated as equals.
The German colonial military officers, in particular, were known not to
spare the whip when it came time to motivate their subjects into defending
their colonies from the French and British.

Source -- Apocalypse: WWI  (documentary series)


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