According to Sen. Tim Kaine, D-VA on the senate floor, the US "didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it."
A very ignorant statement.

Every society has had slavery. It existed long before America did, including by American Indians who had slaves. At least a million Europeans were kidnapped by African Muslims and forced into slavery. The vast majority were starved or beaten to death.

Portuguese, not Americans, brought the first slaves to Jamestown in 1619 (the New York Times). We are the only country that fought a war to end slavery.

Kaine made slavery extra bad by calling slavery an American invention. A US senator condemning his own country. Kaine needs to let his brain catch up with his mouth.

Must have never read the bible lots of talk of slaves and you know my limited history and all but as I recall the bible was written well before the US became a country.

You can say what you want and do what you want today, who will fact check it or enforce it.

Old Testament must have been written in the South.

I doubt Kaine ever heard of the bible.

Very few here may know that in my past I did a LOT of business in antique trade beads, all of which came from Africa...not Native American graves. All those beads were there because they were traded to Africans who captured and "sold" slaves to the European slave traders. The beads were purchased in Africa and shipped to the U.S. by the barrels by my suppliers.

That's a bit of history of the slave trade that not a whole lot of folks realize or choose to believe.

Moosetrot

Based on that, they should go to Africa and start protesting and rioting. See how long that's tolerated.

When somebody says something that stupid they need to immediately be punched in the mouth.

Every culture since time began had slaves..You move into a new area, kill the men, rape the women, then kill them, kill the young kids , and take the young strong ones, or pretty ones, as slaves. No sense wasting a resource.

Got too many? , sell then to the highest bidder. That was the basic "business" plan of conquer and control...

The word slave comes from Slav, because Slavic people were enslaved in very large numbers by the Muslims in the 800s, over 1200 years ago. The Slavs are white.

Keith

Who elects these people?

Atlantic Slave Trade

"The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were the Portuguese, the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch Empires, and the Danish,"

We are not even on the list?

Kaine was Hilarys running mate, James is gonna get upset about you guys telling the truth about his guy.

my understanding is the USA only got 3% of the slaves out of Africa. And I believe this is quiet factual.

Yet in the USA is always the fall guy for slavery.

Wrong.Black people in Africa had other black people as slaves long before America was even discovered.

Sorry sir, this is just how my twisted mind works.... the feelings thing never really worked for me.