Here's some background history on Columbus Day—and Indigenous People's Day

For the benefit of posterity I think the etymology of the word ‘slave’ might be worth remembering too. It is literally from the late Latin word Sclavus meaning simply ‘ Slavic Person’ because the Slavic people were pillaged by conquest so often that by the 9th century their ethnicity was synonymous with ‘captive servant laborer’

I only point this out because throughout history the determination that a people were to be enslaved was based solely on if they had been conquered not what they looked like. For most of human history slaves, slavers and slave owners were of the same race (hence slave brands). International global trade altered that because new populations that were conquered were of different races and were able to be transported far from their home lands, leading to prejudice based off of racial identity; where a place’s slave and free populations were divided entirely along racial lines.

The owning of one human by another is always evil regardless and it is important to trace the fault lines slavery has fractured into our modern society.

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