The 2100 BC project for those who are familiar with these 1619
project, it is the attempt by the New York Times to claim that
the one of the most unique things about America is its
practice of slavery. They then say America today,
uniquely practices, capitalism there for slavery, is inherently
intertwined with capitalism. Here is a brief translation of
four laws from the code of ur-nammu from Mesopotamia
somewhere between 2100 BC and 2050 BC.
It's the oldest legal code known to the human race.
If a slave marries a slave and that's leave it set free.
He does not leave the household. If a slave marries a native, IE
free person. He/she is to hand the firstborn
son over to the owner. There are many more like this.
The point is, is that slavery. Is one of the least unique
things about America as Thomas Soul says in Book titled,
economic facts and fallacies. For centuries before Europeans
had enslaved, other European Europeans, Asians had enslaved
other Asians and Africans had enslaved.
Other Africans, only in the modern era was there both the
wealth and Technology to organize?
The mass transportation of people across the ocean, either
as slaves or as free immigrants, nor were Europeans, the only
ones to transport masses of enslave human beings from one
continent to another. Other North Africa's Barbary,
Coast Pirates, alone, captured, and enslaved, at least a million
Europeans, from 1500 to 1800 carrying more Europeans into
bondage, in North America, than there were African's, bought
brought in bondage to the United States and to the American
colonies from which it was formed.
Moreover Europeans were still being bought and sold in the
slave markets of the Islamic World decades after blacks were
freed in the United States slavery was a virtually
Universal Installation. Bhushan in countries around the
world. And for thousands of years of
recorded history, indeed archaeological evidence suggests
that human beings learn to enslave other human beings.
Before they learn to write one of the many fallacies about
slavery that it was based on race is sustained by the simple.
But pervasive practice of focusing exclusively on the
enslavement of Africans by Europeans as if this were
something unique rather than a part of a much larger World
Wide, human tragedy, racism, grew out of African slavery,
especially in the United States but slavery proceeded to racism
by thousands of years. Europeans enslaved other
Europeans for centuries. Before the first African was
brought into bondage into the Western Hemisphere.
The reason that is important is because when people think of
slavery, they'll often say unpaid labor or free labor was
not free to house and clothe people and feed them for
centuries at a time, it was costly and there's I'm wrong
with volunteer work, which is also unpaid labor and if the
problem is just skin color and we're focusing on something that
trivial. Well then we don't have a
principled objection to races enslaving members of their own
race. Until you get to the fact that
it's wrong to initiate violence against peaceful people, or
always going to have this fight with no end in sight.