I bet your great-grandfather NEVER imagined in his wildest dreams how those he sold would be treated.
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I’d argue they know and wanted to get paid anyways. I mean, no one that’s bought/sold ends up living a nice life, right? Clearly.
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We are talking 18th century. No one would know what happened 100km away let alone thousands of km across the ocean, information was scarce then.
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I am not denying the role warring African factions had in the slave trade trade but racists use that as a way to mitigate European and American culpability in genocide. Blaming Africans for slavery is like blaming women for getting raped.
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Well the New Yorker clearly isn’t saying “because Africans sold slaves to the slaveowners, the slaveowners aren’t at fault”
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Amazing. Discovering the obvious. And of course the same went on much later if it does not still on the east coast towards Arab countries.
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This is nothing new.

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Duh!!!!
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And it still goes on because Islam is STILL the biggest slave-trading institution there is
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Awkward
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