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Weird. Because of privacy settings I can't view the 3d model walk-through video. Anyone else getting the issue? I disabled ublock but no dice. https://slavevoyages.org/voyage/ship
It seems like you need to allow cookies for player.vimeo.com to get past that dialog.
> Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa , and then resold elsewhere. (making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
> Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa , and then resold elsewhere. (making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
Strictly speaking you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person. Can you explain in more detail why you think this fine distinction is needed?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Strictly speaking you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person. Can you explain in more detail why you think this fine distinction is needed?
He's trying to say that over millenia whites enslaved whites, blacks enslaved blacks and viceversa. Nothing personal or racial
I don't think it's the case that there was nothing racial about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, at least in terms of justifying it to a public who would increasingly be inclined to think that society can tell people not to keep slaves.
Though I would tend to agree that slavery was never only about race, not before the trans-Atlantic trade, and not during.
I'm a little disappointed that they had to make a video in order for people to view the 3D model on the web. The model itself should be viewable in a browser, just like an image, a sound or a video. This is exactly the sort of thing that glTF was designed for, so maybe one day that will be a reality.
This model is cool, but also clinical: if you're interested in understanding what it was like to be an African kidnapped and sold via the Atlantic slave trade, consider reading Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon[1] or Aley Haley's Roots[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_La... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American...
"However, historians and genealogists found critical errors in his research. Most of the novel is either unsupported or contradicted by the available evidence."
> Between 1500 and 1867, some 40,000 voyages carried 12.5 million Africans to the Americas, where they were sold into slavery. As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa , and then resold elsewhere. (making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
Strictly speaking you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person. Can you explain in more detail why you think this fine distinction is needed?
However, as you say, "you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person", which was done in Africa by Africans; many of these people were later (sometimes much later) moved to the coastal areas and sold and transported to Americas, however many were not, and were kept in slavery in Africa.
The original statement focuses solely on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and implies that the enslavement happened solely for that, which is untrue. Enslaving free people and trading them was a local endeavor done by local rulers and strongmen (the main source of slaves was 'prisoners of war' or robbery raids in local conflicts), though of course them becoming a profitable export commodity significantly increased the amount of "business".
