A Very Powerful Message Being Conveyed

[Punk Hazard]

Do you try to say that the ancient Egypt wasn't already a shitty place? They had slaves too.

Slavery in those times wasn't always the same kind as the Atlantic Slave Trade. A lot of what they called "slaves" then, we would call "live-in maids and butlers" now.

It doesn't, actually.
They were going to be made into slaves regardless of Christianity, Christianity doesn't really change much about the entire thing if you ask me.

Christianity was used to subdue slaves. Slaveholders attempted to use the doctrines to nullify the culture of Africans(out of the mainstream three religions, Africans at the time primarily practiced Islam iirc). It was used a tool to increase cultural assimilation of Africans to the cultures of the Europeans who held them as slaves.

Does this mean that Christianity is to blame for slavery or that slavery wouldn't have happened without it? Arguably, no. But there is no denying the prominence of Christianity as a tool when it came to slavery in the New World. Regardless of how Christianity is aligned in the world today, as a tool for good or as a tool for evil, it has undeniably been used for evil throughout the course of human history and this is one such example. That's where Christianity comes into play with slavery.

 

[slimreaper]

Slavery in those times wasn't always the same kind as the Atlantic Slave Trade. A lot of what they called "slaves" then, we would call "live-in maids and butlers" now.



Christianity was used to subdue slaves. Slaveholders attempted to use the doctrines to nullify the culture of Africans(out of the mainstream three religions, Africans at the time primarily practiced Islam iirc). It was used a tool to increase cultural assimilation of Africans to the cultures of the Europeans who held them as slaves.

Does this mean that Christianity is to blame for slavery or that slavery wouldn't have happened without it? Arguably, no. But there is no denying the prominence of Christianity as a tool when it came to slavery in the New World. Regardless of how Christianity is aligned in the world today, as a tool for good or as a tool for evil, it has undeniably been used for evil throughout the course of human history and this is one such example. That's where Christianity comes into play with slavery.

what does assimilation have to do with coercion by force?

 

[HashiraMadara]

what does assimilation have to do with coercion by force?

African on African slave meant you're bought as part of the family, you do the labour the family can't and nothing more. The wealthier the family, the more lavish the slave lived. Meaning a lot of slaves were sold in the Atlantic willingly blinded by the rich of the buyers thinking they will live accordingly. It backfired because These new masters treated them as animals instead of human beings, the same can be said about Arabic slave trade. The Arabic even castrated them so they wouldn't breed with their women