[ExI] History of Slavery

[Samantha Atkins]

On May 26, 2007, at 8:11 PM, Olga Bourlin wrote:

> From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin at rawbw.com>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 6:37 PM
>
>> As explained in the chapter on slavery in Thomas Sowell's
>> "White Liberals and Black Rednecks", England alone
>> deserves the lion's share of the credit for stopping it,
>> with the United States in second place. Non-western
>> nations need not apply. At significant expense over more
>> than a century, Great Britain patrolled the slave-trading
>> areas of the world, finally at long last successfully
>> sweeping it from the seas.
>
> Thomas Sowell doesn't talk much about white privilege (not just in  
> the U.S.,
> but around the world) because in his role as a Latter-Day Tom (hey,  
> the name
> even fits) he cannot afford to. (And don't tell me white privilege  
> doesn't
> exist, into today - big time.)

I fail to see what the above paragraph from Lee has substantially to  
do with white privilege.

>
> IMO one needs to get a fuller perspective on this issue, Lee - not  
> just from
> the white perspective, but from the black perspective (and not just  
> dealing
> with slavery per se, but its after effects).  There are many many  
> books out
> there that will give you a snootful, like this one called ...
>

What Lee wrote was not particularly meant to be a perspective  
(subjective) view but a more less objective rendition of the  
prevalence of slavery, numerical comparisons of where it was  
widespread and a bit of history regarding whether the ending of  
slavery began and was partially carried out in much of the world.     
The perspective he offered  is not particularly color bound.

- s