Subj : Re: Sowell on Slavery
To   : Mike Powell
From : Jeff Thiele
Date : Tue Nov 08 2022 15:00:12

On 08 Nov 2022, Mike Powell said the following...
 MP> Also, although it was outlawed in Western Europe, on European soil, it is
 MP> not completely accurate to say that European countries were not still
 MP> practicing forms of slavery before, and after, the US Civil War.  During
 MP> WW I, which started roughly 50 years after slavery was outlawed in the
 MP> US, the war spilled out from Europe and into the African colonies as the
 MP> European leaders hoped to use the conflict to gain more territory.
 MP> While France apparently treated most of their colonial subjects as well
 MP> as their citizens, the same cannot be said for the UK and Germany.  Many
 MP> of the subjects were conscripted into the armed forces before
 MP> conscription was mandatory in other parts of the empires, and were not
 MP> treated as equals. The German colonial military officers, in particular,
 MP> were known not to spare the whip when it came time to motivate their
 MP> subjects into defending their colonies from the French and British.

If military conscription is slavery, then the US practiced slavery as late as
the 70s and Israel along with some Scandinavian countries practice slavery to
this day.

Or, conscription is not slavery.

Jeff.

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