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Native americans had slaves? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by mynameisbob@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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Cross posted from https://lemmy.ml/post/49623403

Native americans had slaves? Do you have any references to put in perspective and counter right wing boot licking perspectives on this matter? Like the issue is feudalism and capitalism/imperialism at the core. Like the natives had conflict... possibly scalped a few but I think the right wing on behalf of their "Yes big daddy" capo corpo masters like to paint images of a past a skew.

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[–] 201dberg@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Like 2 seconds of looking it up proves how bullshit this is and it's like les than 5% of Native Americans owned African slaves. And as far as IF Native Americans has Native American slaves... That's their own culture, which would have been their own to fix. It doesn't make what settlers did ok. That's like saying it would have been ok to genocide all of Rome, Greece, and tbh, most of the world at one point or another. Would the people saying this dumb bullshit if Moa wiped out all of Tibet? I mean shit, they scream about China doing that now when taking Tibet was general very non violent.

So yeah, anyone who says this shit is full of shit. A very small portion of Natives had African slaves. Pre settlers, some tribes had slaves but it was not like "modern" slavery. And yes, Natives did also go to war, kill each other, even do some fucked up shit between tribes. None of that makes the colonizer genocide of Natives ok.

I find people only say this because they know what happened was fucking bad, but have super fragile egos and have to like, find something to deflect blame because they are physically incapable of feeling even second hand shame.