“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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Slavery was a constant feature of Africa until whites tried - with some success - to end it.
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And that article is about to get scrubbed from the internet and stuffed down the memory hole.
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Interesting that the author talks about Barack as qualified to solve the problem of reparations. I’ve read that the former president has no slave blood, is only 1/8th black (Arab-American), and descended from slave owners/slave trades on mom’s/dad’s sides. But it is The NY Times!
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It also ignores the role of Anthony "The Negro" Johnson, former indentured servant, who argued successfully in court that his payment for the shipment, housing and feeding of people from Africa was legal grounds to make them his "property". We call that "Human Chattel".
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