Obviously you need to go back to school if you think that slavery orginated only in Africa and "possibly" Arabia. European and American slave traders existed. They dealt with other slave traders in buying and selling human chattal. Sounds like you are implying that's a-ok because they weren't running into the bush to directly catch people. The resolution was whether the Transatlantic Slave Trade was the Gravest Crime Against Humanity. You disagree with that, meaning either you consider that the transatlantic slave trade was not a crime at all OR you have something worse in mind. Without actually being forthcoming about what that was. To argue that the Transatlantic Slave Trade is the gravest crime against humanity is to stress its unparalleled fusion of scale, duration, and design: for four centuries it commodified millions, imposed hereditary, racialised bondage, and embedded human exploitation at the core of a global economic system. Unlike the Arab Slave Trade or the enslavement of Slavic peoples, it fixed entire populations as permanent property across generations. And while atrocities such as the Holodomor, the Armenian Genocide, the mass campaigns under Mao, and even the The Holocaust were devastating in their intensity and loss of life, they were comparatively time-bound catastrophes. The Atlantic system, by contrast, was a transnational order that normalised dehumanisation over centuries, shattered cultures, enriched empires, and whose consequences still shape the modern world—making it not a single rupture, but an enduring architecture of injustice. So what's your worst crime against humanity?
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