[PEN-L:9547] Re: tiresome debates

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>One more question -- If slavery was not a Holocaust because the
>intention was not immediate death

I said that slavery did not seem to me to be "genocide"--because the
aim was not to destroy West Africans as a people, but rather to be
(and remain) in the business of bribing some of them to deliver
others bound and shackled to the slave ships at the coast. "Genocide"
seems to me to require that extermination be the end in view: the
Abenaki people do not live in Westbrook, ME any more.

I also said that we need another word for what happened to West
Africa and West Africans between 1600 and 1820 that carries an
equally powerful emotional load, but I don't know what that word is...


Brad DeLong