3D model of slave ship brings harrowing history to life
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As far as I'm aware, the majority were sold into slavery in Africa, and then resold elsewhere.
(making the distinction because it's important to why there are still open slave markets in parts of Africa)
I don't think it's the case that there was nothing racial about the trans-Atlantic slave trade, at least in terms of justifying it to a public who would increasingly be inclined to think that society can tell people not to keep slaves.
Though I would tend to agree that slavery was never only about race, not before the trans-Atlantic trade, and not during.
However, as you say, "you are enslaved the moment someone has captured you with the purpose of selling you to another person", which was done in Africa by Africans; many of these people were later (sometimes much later) moved to the coastal areas and sold and transported to Americas, however many were not, and were kept in slavery in Africa.
The original statement focuses solely on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and implies that the enslavement happened solely for that, which is untrue. Enslaving free people and trading them was a local endeavor done by local rulers and strongmen (the main source of slaves was 'prisoners of war' or robbery raids in local conflicts), though of course them becoming a profitable export commodity significantly increased the amount of "business".
The first encounter for much of Europe with African slavery were the millions of Europeans who found themselves sold to the African and Arabic slavers or captured by the Barbary pirates. There were even slaving raids to parts of the European coasts in the early Middle Ages.
Which is not to downplay the effects of the trans Atlantic slave trade, just to put it in context a little.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracoon:_The_Story_of_the_La...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roots:_The_Saga_of_an_American...
"However, historians and genealogists found critical errors in his research. Most of the novel is either unsupported or contradicted by the available evidence."
And even if the hardware and browser offer proper WebGL support, it might occur that the drivers are black listed, thus making any proper use of WebGL unbewarable.
Such is the WebGL reality, where devices with native support for OpenGL ES 3.2, might still struggle to see a WebGL 2.0 scene.
With a video everyone gets to enjoy it.
There's no inherent requirement for OpenGL support to render glTF 2.0. WebGL is only required because browsers don't include native support.
I know people often criticize topics that surface anything remotely concerning race, as there is a “race to the bottom”, but I often find that I learn a lot just by the fact-checking that it spawns.
To that end, one reference that I didn’t know coming in is “Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660”, for the degree to which Trans Atlantic slave trade re-shaped Central African society. Secondly, a book I read a year or so ago Ibrahim Kendi’s “Stamped From The Beginning” which discusses how exponential profits reaped by the trans-Atlantic and inter-America slave trade — unprecedented in the human practice of enslavement — spawned racist hierarchies that persist now.
What does being sensitive to issues about slavery mean? Is it historical accurate or not? There should be no positivity. Only accuracy. It's not like anyone truly imagines these days that any slavery from any time period was a summer camp get-away. If someone can't handle the historical reality, don't read about it to begin with. Bad things happened in the past. Get over it, but learn from it so we don't make the same mistakes. Putting your head in the sand doesn't change it. What's next, concentration camps will be downgraded to just weight loss centers because people's sensitivities can't handle "people were tortured and died in these places".
The US ran their own concentration camps during WW2, to house Japanese Americans. Sure, the US didn't go to the depths of the Nazi concentration camps, but that doesn't make it any less deplorable to round people up purely based on their race or nationality (or any other now-protected status).