“The African role in the slave trade was fully understood and openly acknowledged by many African-Americans even before the Civil War. For Frederick Douglass, it was an argument against repatriation schemes for the freed slaves.”
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“The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders.”
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“... the African role in the slave trade was greatly reduced after 1807, when abolitionists, first in Britain and then, a year later, in the United States, succeeded in banning the importation of slaves.”
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“In 1999... President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin astonished an all-black congregation in Baltimore by falling to his knees and begging African-Americans’ forgiveness for the “shameful” and “abominable” role Africans played in the trade.”
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“...the conquest and capture of Africans and their sale to Europeans was one of the main sources of foreign exchange for several African kingdoms for a very long time.“
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Slavery was a constant feature of Africa until whites tried - with some success - to end it.
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I mean, you can undestrand this with logic: European started explore Africa in XIX century, the trade started three century before ... how could they kidnapped people if they never touch the land?!
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Slavery wasn't confined to non Christians either. Indentured servants were common... They had to work off their sentence unpaid = slavery.
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Read up on the Tartarians and the mud floods, its fascinating stuff.
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Ever figure out who taught all forensic archive investigators? who was the first FAI?
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Very likely. African tribes competed with one another to curry favor with slave traders. So REGARDLESS of whom might've "owned" a slave later, their FIRST EXPERIENCE OF CAPTURE AND SLAVERY came from other Black tribes. Black-on-black slavery.
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Its to late. The truth will always be a fable to some.
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This is probably true... But the Europeans did buy them. I'm also not aware of a predominantly caucasian civilization that didn't have laws on the books during modernity that considered blacks less than human. If I buy a sex slave, use her for a bit, & then let her go, am I cool?
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Of course. I believe it. Recently the idea has been on my mind for a while now. That same behavior still exist here. It's not subtle neither is it obvious. It's what's keeping the nation down. You just have to be african or, in my case, Nigerian to notice it.
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It amazes me the complete lack of knowledge so many African Americans have about the thing they seems to blame for all their problems in the world. Or know why there are no descendants of slaves in the Middle East and few in South America.
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Slavetrade was also most likely result of religious cleansing; coastal tribes were pagan and inland moslem. Some tribes were mixed. Only 10% of slaves in US were moslem. Mali and Songhay empires were built upon slavery. Mali still is. Approx 17% of pop slaves.
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