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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by bantunes on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:52AM (#24107733)
You're right, but I'd be interested in seeing a comparison of scale once the Portuguese, Spanish, English, French and Dutch joined the practice.
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Re:Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative by luckylion on Monday August 10, 2020 @07:25AM (#24108040)
They didn't really "join" as much as they went from being victims to being perpetrators, from being countries where Barbary Pirates (Ottoman Empire) would regularly go on slave raids to conquering the attacker's homelands and then expanding like crazy.
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