backuptape8

8년 전discuss

Perhaps the details of the Arab slave trade are just too brutal. For example, virtually every African male child Arab slavers captured was castrated.

backuptape8

8년 전discuss

> As the world ignores the ignominious 500th anniversary of the buying and selling of slaves between Africa and the Americas, historians uncover its first horrific voyages

The word seems to ignore the Arab slave trade of Africans even more, despite it being twice as large. I wonder why.

backuptape8

8년 전discuss

From the page's title:

> The Actual Mike is not quite the virtual Gatsby

Jay Gatsby was a criminal. Of course he says he's "not quite the virtual Gatsby." But he's still essentially likening himself to a fictional criminal.

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