Ep 186 Potosi The Silver Mine that Changed the World

Was this a video on silver or slave labor? Yes, the use of slave labor to get the silver was wrong, but so was the horrific treatment of natives by Spanish missionaries and the forced labor in mining, farming, military operations around the world for millennia. Every region of the world has used slave labor and those slaves were never treated well. In comparison (comparison mind you) the African slaves used in colonial America were treated much better than in many parts of the world. Slavery is an abomination which encompasses all other evils. It sucks but it is a part of human history and is even a part of today since several countries still openly allow for human slavery and many other countries turn a blind eye to it.