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An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.

Why is that labeled as 'wicked' ? Are slave-making ants[1] wicked as well?

  > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave-making_ant

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion). What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them? People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thi…

Did you just put evil in quotation marks when referring to human slavery?

No, I put 'Coca Cola'... Can you read?

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #2

I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.

Slavery is still going on. All the scandals in England? A lot of that was sex slavery.

For the life of me I don't get how society honestly thinks "Oh ~50-200 years ago humanity was evil but now we're enlightened and good"...

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you just put evil in quotation marks when referring to human slavery?

No, I put 'Coca Cola'... Can you read?

How edgy to you have to be to try and argue about the morality behind slavery.

When you prove that animals are self aware and conscious to the level of humans you can start to try and make half of this point but you're taking it way too far with this whole energy molecules thing.

What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #2

I find these pretty disturbing. I like to think I'd never have stood by while someone enslaved someone else. But the banality of these ads makes it all seem quite commonplace and acceptable. Wicked times.

Slavery is still going on. All the scandals in England? A lot of that was sex slavery. For the life of me I don't get how society honestly thinks "Oh ~50-200 years ago humanity was evil but now we're enlightened and good"...

    > All the scandals in England?
    > A lot of that was sex slavery.
What?

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #7

I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion). What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them? People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thi…

A runaway domesticated animal may stand a significantly higher risk of injury than its wild brethren.

Domesticated animals also so often have a much higher standard of living than in the wild; it is hard to argue that an owned animal is deprived as much as an owned human.

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slavery is still going on. All the scandals in England? A lot of that was sex slavery. For the life of me I don't get how society honestly thinks "Oh ~50-200 years ago humanity was evil but now we're enlightened and good"...

> All the scandals in England? > A lot of that was sex slavery. What?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_exploit...

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #7

I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion). What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them? People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thi…

Upvoted for the philosophical discussion, not because I agree.

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I put 'Coca Cola'... Can you read?

How edgy to you have to be to try and argue about the morality behind slavery. When you prove that animals are self aware and conscious to the level of humans you can start to try and make half of this point but you're taking it way too far with this whole energy molecules thing. What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?

  "How edgy to you have to be to try and argue about the morality behind slavery."
How brainwashed do you have to be to mimic the beliefs of people around you?

  "When you prove that animals are self aware and conscious to the level of humans you can start to try and make half of this point"
What do vague labels like 'conscious' and 'self-aware' have to do with slavery?

  "...but you're taking it way too far with this whole energy molecules thing."
Are members of homo sapiens species not clusters of elementary particles? Have you studies physics or chemistry at all?

  "What's next, comparing the Holocaust to fish farms?"
Absolutely. Why is it fine to enslave bio-chemical processes known as 'fish', but not okay to enslave 'humans'? Is it objectively wrong to enslave members of homo sapiens species? If aliens came to Earth and used humans the same way humans use fish, what would be wrong with that?

Re: An Archive of Fugitive Slave Ads Sheds New Light on Lost Histories

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post #7

I have a very different view on this (ready to be downvoted into oblivion). What was done to slaves of homo sapiens species in the recent past is being done today with dogs, cats and many other slaves of different species. Have you seen the ads where 'owners' of creatures who escaped offer financial reward to anyone who finds them? People who are against slavery of members of homo sapiens species show no critical thi…

It's not exclusively some modern invention to be against slavery. There were people during the era of chattel slavery who thought of slavery as wrong too. Lots and lots of them. Almost 100% of the African-American population, for example...
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