You also have to realise that they would not have been free either if they had stayed in Africa. They had already been enslaved.

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Slavery historian: new Slavery Museum Amsterdam is missed opportunity. Emmer was for years considered the slavery expert in the Netherlands, but is now vilified in the public debate because even in his studies he seeks to show that slaves had relatively good food compared to the poor populations in Europe and Africa who suffered from famines.

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I think it is important that when water boils at 100 degrees, whether someone is white or black, that someone sees that it boils at 100 degrees.

A give-and-take situation was created between the two sides so that that slavery could continue to exist.

The problem is that, in our view, the system (Slavery) is so reprehensible that you really shouldn't talk about it. I think you should.

That it was precisely productive forces that left is not at all unique. It happens in all migrations. If you look at the period between 1500 and 1900, when that Atlantic slave trade took place, many more people left Europe exactly in the same age range, without us in Europe complaining about losing productive forces.

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You also have to realise that they would not have been free either if they had stayed in Africa. They had already been enslaved.

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