[Teacher317]

he was only 19 years old when members of the neighboring Dahomian tribe captured him and took him to the coast. There, he and about 120 others were sold into slavery

White people's fault!

[ifinnegan]

“White people’s fault!”

He doesn’t say that.

Read the excerpt below.

http://www.vulture.com/2018/04/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-excerpt.html

The author and interviewer of this publication is Zora Neale Hurston who was a great American anthropologist and writer.

[Midwesterner53]

Africans selling Africans. I bet the universities immediately demand the history books be rewritten to show that!!!!! Right?

[Vendome]

I was just going to post that relevant line...

[Nifster]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

[Deplorable American1776]

Don't you know the Dahomian tribe were Caucasians and they were evil Trump supporters who contribute to Global Warming??? 😀

[cherry]

if this book insinuates that black tribes sold captured blacks to the white slave traders, then it'll be banned...

because we wouldn't want the blacks to know who captured them and who sold them into slavery...