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Anthropology

franzwohlgemuth

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4. Not excusing, but...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 02:28 PM

Dec 2020

EVERYONE traded slaves then. Norse, Irish, the church, everyone. It was a common practice. Even the Natives of the Americas. Was it wrong? Yes. But every culture and religion practiced it.

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