“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 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 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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He’s got an excellent video on the topic he did , I shall link ithttps://youtu.be/31E1gHowYcA
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He’s got some amazing videos, if you like learning stuff all the time like me, you should check it out. I especially like his videos on SA.
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They felt morally queezy about continuing to kidnap people. Meanwhile raping women and continuing to breed slaves, beat slaves, and separate families kept going on for decades in both Britain and the US. Much of Latin America abolished slavery before White countries did.
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