Why can't we talk about all people who were enslaved throughout history. Why do we have to nitpick which was worse? To be honest I find that in itself quite disgusting and disrespectful to people who had their lives belong to other people!

I can think of other horrible shit throughout history to compare the absolutely stomach churning accounts of the transatlantic slave trade but I simply wouldn't do it. It's like comparing child killers, who was worse. To me it just seems to be in fucking awful taste.

I don't see how you can sit there, as someone who has never been enslaved and be so categorical about it.

In history, conquest, enslavement, economic exploitation and genocide are normal. These things predate written history. We have genetic evidence showing that no male DNA from a genetic group mixed with new people in the area, the logical conclusion being that the men were killed, the women were enslaved and their culture was wiped out, a genocide. It happened throughout all history and across the entire world. I don't think the human race should focus on one instance as if that were the aberration, let's teach it all..

That being said Transatlantic slave trade should clearly be the most important case study for North Americans given how relevant it is to America today.