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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:52:58 -0600
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Let's not start debates on who was or is enslaved and who was or is not,
because that could drag in some contemporary politics which is quite close
to home. As someone said, "it depends on what the meaning of "enslaved"
IS?" "Enslavement" is not really part of genetic genealogy.


----- Original Message -----
From: "R. & G. Stevens" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arch Yeomans" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Megalith builders
>
>> The Britons have in essence
>> been enslaved several times over.
>>
>> Arch
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
> I think we need to be careful when using words like "enslaved" and
> "slave(s)." What evidence is there that the "Britons" (whatever one means
> by
> that vague term) have been "enslaved several times over"?
>
> The Romans asserted their political and military rule over much of
> Britain,
> but they certainly did not enslave the entire population. The Vikings
> likewise did not make slaves of the entire population of the areas in
> which
> they held sway. Was the entire population of India enslaved under the
> British Raj?
>
> The reign of a foreign elite is not synonymous with the enslavement of the
> native population.
>
> Rich
>
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