The white slave traders rationalised their human smuggling by believing that the slaves were being rescued as refugees from oppression or prosecution in their African homes. If it sounds familiar, it is @NewYorker.
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From the essay: "[S]laves were permitted to move freely in their communities and to own property, but they were also sometimes sacrificed in religious ceremonies or buried alive with their masters to serve them in the next life." Did you even read the piece?
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Yes I did. White slavers believed that because the slaves they stole weren't in a good life that they were HELPING them by enslaving them. My point is that the same reasoning is given with the undocumented migrants of America. Also the argument that our economy depends on them.
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'Tend to blame.. .' Subjective.https://twitter.com/FemiAbodunde/status/861909775386370049?s=19 …
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Regarding 'blame', that's a sensitive area simply because supply is created by demand. If there's no demand for slavery, from lazy, corrupt, hateful and greedy people/ leaders, there's no supply. They put chains around a fellow humans neck. How sick can you get¿
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A really interesting, nuanced and well-written article, especially the discussion of Igbo culture, about which I knew little.
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My great grandfather, the long race horse, changes perspectives, eh? I got no opinion here personally, just playing with words.
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True, there are bad eggs in every society. We also have kings in Nigeria that were deposed for opposing the slave trade as we had Europeans that waged a war to end it, thankfully the good eggs prevailed
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Yeah!......and?
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