BDS Madness: South Africa runs out of water, REFUSES Israel’s offer of water aid

Slavery was very common in Biblical times. i forget the percentage but it was high like one out of three was a slave. It was equated with status. People turned to slavery to pay off a debt and worked for someone. Once the debt was satisfied they could go free but some chose to remain with the owner because they were treated well as they should be. Of course human nature being fallen, many were mistreated. Islam is notorious for black and WHITE slaves. White female slaves were taken from Europe for sex.

https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/doesnt-the-bible-support-slavery/

I never read about using slaves as ballast, nor that that was how they first came to America.
It is a long, inglorious part of history with many facets. Thanks for the information. I’ll check it out.

Note that the Arabs castrated all the male slaves they took out of Africa and sold east — to other Arab countries. That’s why, of all those slaves, only the females left descendants.

European and American slave-buyers refused to buy castrated males, so the Arabs were obliged to sell un-gelded male slaves to the western countries — where they *did* leave descendants.

Far more slaves went to Latin America than the British colonies in North America, only about four or five per cent of them ended up in what would become the United States.

While many indentured servants were paupers and petty criminals the Crown deported to the colonies, many others were often simply kidnapped off the streets of poor neighborhoods and shipped in chains across the Atlantic with forged writs of indenture. The children of the poor were especially vulnerable, and the custom of grabbing them was called “kid nabbing,” which later became the more general term “kidnapping.” Although many servants willingly signed their writs of indenture , they were usually cruelly deceived about the conditions in which they would work.

More often than not, indentured servants didn’t survive their period of servitude, as they died of mistreatment, hunger, exhaustion and disease. About 20,000 Irish rebels deported as slaves to the Caribbean by Cromwell were almost all dead in less than three years. A doctor in Virginia wrote a report deploring the obvious signs of violence he found on the corpses of servants when he inspected them for cause of death. Dead servants were sometimes buried secretly to hide obvious signs of murder.

Cotton didn’t become an important cash crop until after the colonial period. The important crops in that era were tobacco, sugar and indigo. The sugar cane plantations of the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean were the worst and can fairly be compared to the Soviet gulags. Being sent to the sugar cane fields was a virtual sentence of death, which is why slaves in the United States dreaded being “sold down the river” (the Mississippi) to sugar cane planters.

In the colonial era of North America, black slaves and white slaves worked together, lived together, ate together, got drunk together, and ran away together.

LOL You say you are not sure, and then substantively agree with what I wrote, if you think about it. Neither you or I or anyone else have the time and I don’t have the interest in writing a full essay on the subject, just aspects of a complex and diverse subject.
But have fun rebutting or whatever…you are not wrong.

Yes.
And sadly it looks like it will exist as long as humanity does in one form or another.

The western world stopped the practice, but it is still in use in muslim-held areas.

You are dreaming TD The British governed Palestine as a protectorate. There was a minority population of Jews pre -war. The Jews on for example the Exodus didn’t migrate there legally any more than you claim Muslims are now migrating to Europe.
They weren’t genuine refugees, the war in Europe was over, so they were just economic refugees [ or opportunists]
Although Americans here might remember that America refused entry to Jewish refugees during the war and sent them back to die in the camps
Israel was established because it was pushed in the UN by USA , and that was because Truman was facing an election against Dewey. Unsure of the outcome, he was offered the Jewish vote if he backed giving Palestine to the Jews
The US State Dept at the time warned against the move.
The Zionists were terrorists by their own admission, Bombing kidnapping , murdering, [ and something Pam won’t be keen to discuss]- they also approached the Nazis to offer assistance as the Nazis were fighting the British ,as were the Zionists . The documents regarding this were found later in the German embassy in Ankora.
Most of the things that Islamic terrorists do now were previously done by the Irgun / Lehi Zionists Bombing hotels, blowing up trains, kidnapping for ransom , torturing and killing prisoners. All the acts are documented and verifiable. But of course only if you are interested in checking the truth.
Pam repeatedly trots out pictures of the Muslim shaking hands with Hitler.
So what ,plenty of people shook hands with Hitler. Catholic priests were happy to glad hand him and other top Nazis. The King of England and his American girlfriend Wallis Simpson visited and got on well with him

Of course readers here will wet themselves with rage to hear this … rather than going off and checking . But then if you’re a racist bigot you don’t want to see your prejudices questioned
And while we’re on Palestine. The Americans were supplying military explosives used in the bombings and openly raising funds for terrorists, as they later did for the IRA .
The irony of course being that the main raising of funds for the iRA was done by Irish/catholic Americans in the Eastern coast which were strongholds for Irish in Police and Fire depts.
It came as a shock to them on 9/11 to find out what it was like to be on the receiving end of terrorism instead of funding it.
That wasn’t half as much fun..

submission to a narrative, without making sure, is evidence of the fool