The End of Slavery in America Historical Perspective

[David Lockmiller]

(07-15-2021 06:43 AM)Amy L. Wrote:  When you put it that way - Yes, a practical end to over 1000 years of overt slavery, a resolution of this US hypocrisy --
(It's amazing to me that the Slave Power had such political power, that a scolding Europe was not enough to right the wrong.)

Only recently did I learn of the idea that the words "slavery" and "slavic" may have the same origin, but then a quick surf, and people state that's not necessarily the case. (below)

>>> Is it not amazing that President Lincoln, as the head of this American democracy, brought a permanent end to slavery in this section of the world in 1865 at the expense of the American Civil War?

ahhh, careful. There is modern slavery, and prison labor. Where there's a will, there's always a Black Market.

From Wiki -
In medieval wars many Slavs were captured and enslaved, which led to the word slav becoming synonym to "enslaved person". In addition, the English word Slav derives from the Middle English word sclave, which was borrowed from Medieval Latin sclavus or slavus, itself a borrowing and Byzantine Greek σκλάβος sklábos "slave," which was in turn apparently derived from a misunderstanding of the Slavic autonym (denoting a speaker of their own languages). ... a version was expressed, according to which the Greek word Σκλάβινοι does not come from the self-name of the Slavs, but from the Greek verb σκυλεύο - "to extract spoils of war". According to this version, the self-name of the Slavs and their Modern Greek name coincided phonetically purely by chance.

Man's inhumanity to man.