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The institution of slavery was a cultural practice. What do you think "culture" is? Musical compositions and architectural designs only. Every culture in human history has had some form of slavery with attendant beliefs, values, practices, and social frameworks.  So, yes, the institution of slavery was cultural and continues to inform US culture.[/quote]

Slavery as it existed during the period of European colonialism in the 1600s-1800s was appropriated from African culture.  Yes, Europeans took advantage of it and expanded on it, but they didn't invent it.[/quote]

Europeans had slavery long before they began importing Africans to the sugar islands during the period you specify. They simply got a supply of slaves from Africa and then applied their own cultural idea of slavery (lifelong chattel status of an ethnic other) to it. Neither Africans (those held in bondage) nor Arabs (the traders of African slaves) saw slavery this way.[/quote]
Are you talking about feudal Europe and the serfs/landlords setup?
Did you know that all of Africa did not practice slavery? The slavery that was practiced in some parts was very different, the slave was rarely a slave for life and the children were born free. Occationally the slave would assimilate into the tribe/family as equal member.

What was practiced  in America is slavery based on race, and that lasted for over 200 years. The scale of which had never been seen before in history[/quote]

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