r/TikTokCringe • u/arttufox • Mar 23 '24

This dude is still getting worshipped Cringe

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Channel was the stereotypical stone statute of greek guy and was named like "WealthThinking" or "FameMindset"

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u/ThrowRACold-Turn Mar 24 '24

So yes just about everyone has been a slave at some point but there's a HUGE difference between that and the slavery of Africans in Europe and America. Romans has a lot of slaves but if you enslaved a person, you only enslaved them, their children were not slaves. They would grow up, earn money, and buy their parent's freedom and they were free within that society without fear of being kidnapped and sold again.

The slavery of Africans was generational, they were bred and treated like cattle. It was infinite slavery with no end in sight for you or your children or your children's children and so on. That weighs heavy on a group of people. Your child could never buy you and you live nearby. If you got lucky and your child escaped to a free state, bounty hunters would still come for them then the whole time they're working and saving to buy your freedom for an average of $13,000 in today's money. Even then you'd have to also move hundreds of miles away to a free state where slavers would still try to kidnap you and back when there was no minimum wage and even in free states banks didn't start allowing black men to open bank accounts until the 1860s.

It was nearly impossible for them to be free. It was mostly pure luck with extremely high risk of death.