The 2100 BC project for those who are familiar with these 1619 project, it is the attempt by the New York Times to claim that the one of the most unique things about America is its practice of slavery. They then say America today, uniquely practices, capitalism there for slavery, is inherently intertwined with capitalism. Here is a brief translation of four laws from the code of ur-nammu from Mesopotamia somewhere between 2100 BC and 2050 BC.
It's the oldest legal code known to the human race. If a slave marries a slave and that's leave it set free. He does not leave the household. If a slave marries a native, IE free person. He/she is to hand the firstborn son over to the owner. There are many more like this. The point is, is that slavery. Is one of the least unique things about America as Thomas Soul says in Book titled,
economic facts and fallacies. For centuries before Europeans had enslaved, other European Europeans, Asians had enslaved other Asians and Africans had enslaved. Other Africans, only in the modern era was there both the wealth and Technology to organize? The mass transportation of people across the ocean, either as slaves or as free immigrants, nor were Europeans, the only ones to transport masses of enslave human beings from one
continent to another. Other North Africa's Barbary, Coast Pirates, alone, captured, and enslaved, at least a million Europeans, from 1500 to 1800 carrying more Europeans into bondage, in North America, than there were African's, bought brought in bondage to the United States and to the American colonies from which it was formed.
Moreover Europeans were still being bought and sold in the slave markets of the Islamic World decades after blacks were freed in the United States slavery was a virtually Universal Installation. Bhushan in countries around the world. And for thousands of years of recorded history, indeed archaeological evidence suggests that human beings learn to enslave other human beings.
Before they learn to write one of the many fallacies about slavery that it was based on race is sustained by the simple. But pervasive practice of focusing exclusively on the enslavement of Africans by Europeans as if this were something unique rather than a part of a much larger World Wide, human tragedy, racism, grew out of African slavery, especially in the United States but slavery proceeded to racism by thousands of years. Europeans enslaved other
Europeans for centuries. Before the first African was brought into bondage into the Western Hemisphere. The reason that is important is because when people think of slavery, they'll often say unpaid labor or free labor was not free to house and clothe people and feed them for centuries at a time, it was costly and there's I'm wrong with volunteer work, which is also unpaid labor and if the problem is just skin color and we're focusing on something that
trivial. Well then we don't have a principled objection to races enslaving members of their own race. Until you get to the fact that it's wrong to initiate violence against peaceful people, or always going to have this fight with no end in sight.