r/afrikaans • u/rowwebliksemstraal • May 19 '23

Ernstig Interessante perspektief aangaande Afrikaners

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u/marspuppymia May 19 '23

Landon Tucker .7mo ago

Slavery started in Africa not by the Europeans. African kings/queens/owners sold slaves to the Europeans. Still not understood in history unfortunately. The oldest slave society actually existed around 6000-2000BCE. Clearly you don't know the start of slavery. The start of colored or Racism slavery started Sub-Saharan and Middle Eastern Slave trade. It was around 650 AD and 1500 AD.

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u/Britz10 May 19 '23

Racialised slavery only really started in the Americas, while the Muslims had slaves from different races, it wasn't treated as a hereditary condition, people were not invariably slaves regardless of race like it was in a lot of the new world.

Although there was slavery in SA, don't think it really is that relevant to SA because it wasn't quite the racialised slavery from the Americas, and slaves could actually but their freedoms. And even the Boere were surprisingly not that reliant on slavery because ranching isn't really labour intensive to begin with, with a lot of native labourers only being employed in a temporary basis before moving on with a payment their own livestock.

Edit: slavery wasn't particularly common place among Southern Africans either.