Thanks Kid Shelleen.
Posted on 10/29/2021 2:30:27 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
It was supposed to be a joyful occasion. Young men and women gathered in a circle, displaying their dance moves as they celebrated Mali’s independence day in the country’s western region of Kayes.
But things took a dark turn when a group of people carrying thick wooden sticks and machetes appeared all of sudden.
The celebrating crowd – people from the so-called “slave” class – were brutally attacked and publicly humiliated by the descendants of slaveholder families who consider themselves “nobles”.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Medieval Mali grew rich kidnapping other Sub-Saharan Africans to sell to Arab Muslims.
They marched them across the desert and just accepted the resulting loss of merchandise.
And Mali is about 90% muslim, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence. /sarc
But I thought colonialism was responsible for all the woes of Africa? /S
how is this possible? I thought the only slaveholders were white democrats in the south
Do we haven troops there?
Well, Muslim colonialism (which tended to come with a heaping helping of genocide, looting and raping as “bonus”) certainly did!
Sub-Saharan Africans, not unlike many ordinary Europeans, tended to build out of abundant perishable materials rather than stone … and since no one is much searching for evidence of post holes for wall foundations in the jungles there is no way to know what might have been had it not been for the Muslims carting so many off to distant parts.
And make no mistake about it: had the Mohammadan hoards not been repulsed from Europe things might have proven just as grim there too.
Which only helps to point out the sheer stupidity of people importing Islam into the West … way to go you Left wing twats!
Wait. What? I thought only evil white people invented and practiced slavery.
Slavery is alive and well in the USA. I get to spend 40% of my working life supporting Linda, Julia, and their bastard children
Black Lives Blather will be on this like ugly on an ape (any day now...)
The usual suspects who use 19th century American slavery as a cudgel against whites never have anything to say about modern day slavery.
No money in it.
Koranic, “right hand possess”.
Well said.
Slavery existed in Mali for centuries before the Atlantic slave trade.
What!! Are you telling me that slavery is NOT a uniquely American institution? I never knew that.
No....only WHITE colonialism....Muslim slavery was ok apparently.
slavery was institutional in Africa from recorded time, at least 600AD. The Mali/Songhai Empire/Ghana/Ashante people were all slavers, capturing other tribes to work their own fields and mines, or to trade for guns and horses (The Songhai eventually growing to 10,000 horsemen with metal breastplated armour).
“Most captured slaves were taken between 1450 and 1500, from the West African interior with the co-operation of African kings and merchants. “ *
“The Akan people used their gold to buy slaves from the Portuguese... The Portuguese bought the slaves from the kingdom of Benin, near the Niger Delta in Nigeria”..The Akan people needed slaves to work their gold mines and farms **
In a story of the Songhai empire, the going rate for a horse from europe was 5 slaves, which the kings happily traded so all his soldiers and mining overseers could be armoured, armed and mounted.
“In each of the villages situated in the lands that we have listed, without a single exception, the prince had slaves and a fanfa. “ [overseer of slaves] ***
Islam crept in but was largely a religion of the elite. Islam dictated that slavery of infidels was acceptable so it served the purpose of the elite in maintaining power since the majority of the natives were animalists. But the poor figured that game out pretty quickly and started to convert to avoid being enslaved. The Islamic elite responded to the conundrum by changing it’s rules to allow enslavement of ‘lesser’ muslims along with the infidels.
Pre-colonialism slavery in Africa is excused with the claim that only ‘criminals’ and ‘exiles’ were sold into slavery. That could be meant to say they brag they emptied their ‘jails’ of the worst of the worst onto slaver ships. But since children and women were also traded, it’s a bit of post-history whitewashing on their historians’ parts. The truth is closer to the reality that african kings used people as a commodity to build their empires, first through internal trade, and later, with the help of the Portuguese trading horses and armour for gold.
* https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/songhai-african-empire-15-16th-century
** ibid
*** https://kwasikonadu.info/blog/2018/3/18/songhay-empire-and-slavery
Thanks Kid Shelleen.
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