According to that
National Geographic article titled “
21st Century Slaves“:
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What Thomas Sewell omitted to mention was the vast difference that slaves in other societies were regarded completely different to slaves in American society.
Thomas Sewell omitted in his claim, that slaves in African society (and in other societies) had basic human rights, they were not treated in brutal inhuman conditions, those in American society did not enjoy basic human rights, they were treated as sub humans. They were tortured, murdered, worked to death without sufficent food. And their life was ended at the whim of the slave owner or his employee.
Sewell also claimed that western society alone was against slavery, which is nonsense. In other societies slaves had rights, which were covered in law, not so in America.
in
State v. Mann, the court upheld that beating a slave was not a criminal offense. In
Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Supreme Court held that Africans did not even have the rights of an American citizen.
In other societies, slaves could rise within the social system, even become rulers. That was an impossibility within American society,
There are a lot of omissions in Thomas Sewells claims in order to twist and distort the truth.
Even after abolition, slavery was still allowed as punishment in America, and it continued in the African colonies of UK.
The military power of western nations allowed them to exploit the labour of the people of the colonies by conquering and suppressing the local populations. The colonial powers could present themselves as abolitionists, while simultaneously depriving the people of the colonies their basic human rights.
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I wrote a previous article which addressed the popular claim around the British role in the abolition of slavery. The main point of that…
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Your National Geographical link does not work.They appear to have distanced themselves from Thomas Sewell and his article.