Posted on 07/25/2020 12:17:24 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed from public buildings.
Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today's standards or values.
My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings.
"He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him," my father told me.
Nwaubani Ogogo's slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria.
People from ethnic groups along the coast, such as the Efik and Ijaw, usually acted as stevedores for the white merchants and as middlemen for Igbo traders like my great-grandfather.
They loaded and offloaded ships and supplied the foreigners with food and other provisions. They negotiated prices for slaves from the hinterlands, then collected royalties from both the sellers and buyers. About 1.5 million Igbo slaves were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean between the 15th and 19th Centuries.
More than 1.5 million Africans were shipped to what was then called the New World - the Americas - through the Calabar port, in the Bight of Bonny, making it one of the largest points of exit during the transatlantic trade.
The only life they knew Nwaubani Ogogo lived in a time when the fittest survived and the bravest excelled.
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Except or unless of course you are white.
Imagine, black slave traders? /s
They still do it.
>one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today’s standards or values.
That’s different. Nigeria isn’t the country they are trying to punish.
>>More than 1.5 million Africans were shipped to what was then called the New World - the Americas
How Many Slaves Landed in the U.S.?
Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.
And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That’s right: a tiny percentage.
My ancestors owned slaves.
In turn, other ancestors of mine WERE slaves in England.
Blacks like to think that THEY were the only slaves EVER in the entire history of the world.
So true. I have thought of this many times, but no one seems to care.
Blacks, in the United States, owned slaves too:
Marxist Take ‘Em Down NOLA Ignores Fact That Blacks Owned Slaves, Too
And, Anthony Johnson was the first "legal" slave owner in any of the colony's, he was black:
The Horrible Fate of John Casor, The First Black Man to be Declared Slave for Life in America
Hi.
For millinia Arabs, black Africans, American Indians etc. have owned slaves.
Among other groups...
5.56mm
Slavery is only bad if the slaves are black and the slave owners are white. Any other form is OK.
Imagine thousand of black slave owners. You don't have to imagine it. There were more than 3,000 black slave owners just in New Orleans. Imagine how many there were all over the country - not just in the south.
Imagine. The descendants of those black slave owners now want reparations from whites who had nothing to do with slavery.
That's because what is going on is NOT about slavery or even race. Those are false fronts. Stalking horses.
It's about Marxism/Maoism.
After the revolution, the useful idiots will be eliminated.
Of course, you already knew that.;-)
Well then, you’ll want to publicly commit ritual suicide.
At the time of the founding of our country there weremore Whites enslaved in Africa than blacks enslaved here.
I know, damn the history books that teach otherwise.
That is how the Marines earned the name Leather Necks. During the Barbary Wars the muslims liked to behead their enemies. Our marines wore leather collars.
Why confuse facts with a masked Soros retard with fireworks and piss in a jar with NBA morons kneeling?
Yep.
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