tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post114839243141285960..comments2023-10-06T12:28:48.452-04:00Comments on Spinning Clio: Bennett's America: The Last Best HopeMarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1148591084428019482006-05-25T17:04:00.000-04:002006-05-25T17:04:00.000-04:00Ralph,Thanks for the observation. However, since ...Ralph,<BR/>Thanks for the observation. However, since I haven't yet read the book, I'm not sure if Bennett has or hasn't linked the Christian/Muslim, back-and-forth slave trade to the later African slave trade at some later point in the book. I'll have to read the book. I'm reserving my judgement on this until then.<BR/><BR/>That is also why I'm holding back from commenting on what I've taken to be his implication that Jefferson was somehow more correct in challenging the Barbary Pirates than either Washington or Adams when he never supported the Navy that the two Federalists had tried to build and that he (Jefferson) ended up relying upon to fight the Pirates.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09263223781051175207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250013.post-1148589682804081122006-05-25T16:41:00.000-04:002006-05-25T16:41:00.000-04:00Marc, Bennett's comments about Muslims enslaving a...Marc, Bennett's comments about Muslims enslaving a million Europeans is the kind of one-sided and blindered "fact" that feeds hate into perpetuity. The fact is that slavery survived into the modern world largely because of a consensus among Christians and Muslims that binding captives in warfare as slaves was a legitimate alternative to killing captives or holding them hostage for exchange. So, does Bennett say that Christians had enslaved a million Muslims? No, he forgot that part of his "fact". No one really knows how many Christians were enslaved by Muslims or Muslims were enslaved by Christians, but their shared practice caused Europeans to have no qualms about enslaving Africans that they encountered as they explored the west coast of Africa in the 15th century. That was an inherited practice full of sad portent for the future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com