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2023-08-18 22:10:22 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 61339FFCFFCD0DD6CE1E773E9BDCA9FE2C536EF2C6B68656E6BDA020A07680FB
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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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