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2023-08-19 01:46:22 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 37246E50D20B87207254B821176A3AA703BDF59430225D7E50BCB11B21088F01
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White people didn't start slavery. "The earliest known legal documents concerned [...] the sale of slaves. In Mesopotamia for example, the sale of slaves was known from 2300 B.C." https://latinamericanstudies.org/slavery/perbi.pdf "[T]rans-[Indian Ocean World] slave-trades [...] started well before the Common Era" https://books.google.fr/books?id=J0iRAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&ots=EoWhJa_49w&dq=slavery%20in%20ancient%20africa&lr&hl=fr&pg=PR8#v=onepage&q=slavery%20in%20ancient%20africa&f=false
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