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> A quote from a letter by Isabella Gibbons, who had been enslaved by professors at the University of Virginia, is now engraved on the university's Memorial to Enslaved Laborers:
>> Can we forget the crack of the whip, the cowhide, whipping-post, the auction-block, the spaniels, the iron collar, the negro-trader tearing the young child from its mother’s breast as a whelp from the lioness? Have we forgotten that by those horrible cruelties, hundreds of our race have been killed? No, we have not, nor ever will.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_U...
American slaves were generally purchased (with a mortgage) so they were not infinitely replenished.
American slavery didn’t hold a candle to the cruelty of Arab slavery. Imagine all the horrors of American slavery and they cut your balls off. Slavery and genocide mixed together, with the evil benefit of no free descendants to contend with.
b) The topic wasn't indicated to be about the American slave experience, it could have been about slavery in general, or about slavery in the Incan empire etc etc, so you could be making an argument against a point isn't even relevant.
This is why debate is important. Its trivially easy to see through bad arguments.
The point is that if your response to "Slavery good" is that "US Slavery was really really bad" and spend a ton of time on this argument, the opposing team could easily stand up respond with "We concede US slavery was bad, here are the reasons why that doesn't really matter and why it doesn't even refute our generic arguments that slavery is good across the board except for this one time"
So you've wasted a ton of time arguing something that can easily be made irrelevant with very little effort.
You can't go up there and say Slavery is bad because I think Slavery is bad and expect to win.
If we take a scientific view, one example acn falsify and statement, so shouldn't
Just tell them why they're wrong, point by point. Point out implicit premises that don't hold up. Do anything else other than try to convince the other person to stop speaking. People don't shut up because you tell them to, you have to make them shut up. That is a slippery slope.
And here we can see the easily swayed debate judge in action.
A made up Mike Tyson quote, really? At least Kayne actually said the thing about being a slave was a choice, somehow.
it's a pretty universal human desire to give a better life to your children and your children's children, so he might not be very far off.
On his return he was asked what he thought of Africa and said “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat!”