Akrimaya : Agree!
kerfy : after arnie said "screw your freedom", I will never watch anything he is involved in again...
Piglet : I did back in episode 2. If you really listening to the dialogue, you pick up subtle hints...
darklighter1 : Contains spoilers. Click to show. Good show. Watched season 2 and 3 back to back after giving up on season one and was surpr...
random000 : Not a high mark for anyone involved.
Danfis : They need to remove the comedy tag. Seriously, in no way shape or form could this be consi...
yellow_rose1 : Even though it was inevitable. I am in utter disbelief that this could happen in a first ...
Akrimaya : Agree!
random000 : Saw this last year. Didn't deliver. A year later it still doesn't deliver.
chugga : polyglot but right!!
It leaves out a lot of juicy details. Like how the Portugese showed up with their firearms in search of gold and used intimidation to exploit the local slave trade. A slave trade, I might mention, that was vastly different from what the American slave trade would become. Enslaved people in that region has some rights and opportunities. Slavery in the US would take the horrific practice to new lows.
I guess the US deserves a pat on the back because their treatment of slaves was so abhorent that the ones that sold them the slaves had a change of heart and then sought to abolish slavery. Naturally, those same hypocrites then went on to use the abolition of the slave trade as a means to enslave an entire continent via colonization. Caucasians are tricky af.
Yeah, ignoring ‘all’ the facts in order to push a particular narrative does no one any favors. Nor does it absolve anyone from their part in it to shift blame.
so, but there are still slaves in Africa AND the U.S. never colonized Africa.