by the end of the coming decade-- joining other institutions that have more or less been permanently abolished such as human sacrifice and chattel slavery. Also, country after country has decriminalized homosexuality-- again, it's by no means all. But just in the last year, countries as diverse as Lebanon, India, and Trinidad and Tobago have decriminalized homosexuality.
Africans were sold into the Virginia colonies. They arrived on a ship called the White Lion, and they were sold against their will. So that is the introduction of what would become chattel slavery, Um, in British North America. So, um, why that matters, of course, is the English landed at Jamestown in 16 oh, seven. And the fact that it only took 12 years before racialized slavery was
Back in those days, we didn't see dogs as part of our family. We saw them as chattel . We saw them as personal property, there to do a function.
I mean, this is a company that infiltrated animal welfare groups, that spent $10s of millions to defend its use of elephants. The same country that had chattel slavery, and said a whole race or group of people should be conscripted into forced labor--
exceptional America is. And then acknowledged that he had his own enslaved brother in law there with him, whom he owned to keep him comfortable. As he's writing these words that 1/5 of the population that our founding was in chattel slavery. They would know not a single liberty laid out in the Declaration or the Constitution. Thes are very complicated narratives that really pierced that idea that we are exceptional. So we're just really not taught
And contrary to a story that I am often confronted with that suicide rates are spiking, For instance, chattel slavery in the United States was not ended by free speech.
The largest fishes, like tuna, salmon, many of the other ones, are teetering on the brink of collapse. There aren't many fish left. They became--unfortunately, bought and sold like chattel property.
in so many different domains-- social issues, I mean we're a country that has dealt with so many pressing social justice issues. I mean, for the first 80 years in our history we had chattel slavery, for the first 140 years we denied women the right to vote, as recently as the 1950s we had violence breaking out in the South and other parts of the country on race issues,
Together, we can inspire compassion, stop the violence, and bring about a revolution of love. Just 150 years ago, we ended slavery in this country-- owning another human, considering them as chattel and property.
and decades that most of us are unaware of. But, my basic understanding is that they're not, strictly speaking, chattel slavery.
and decades that most of us are unaware of. And there were African slaves working in Peru, sometimes in the mines, in a sort of more chattel slavery formulation.
Voila, you've turned a relationship of violent inequality into a relation where the victims are running around feeling inadequate all the time, making terrible apologies for themselves slavery complex, actually they say military coinage, but I'll throw in slavery because the chattel slavery which isn't a major institution either before or after, in Indian and Chinese