[PEN-L:9570] Re: Re: tiresome debates

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:58 PM 7/22/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>>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.

didn't the kidnapping of large number of people from West Africa have a
disastrous effect on the communities there, so that you could say that
different nations and tribes were destroyed "as a people"?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
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