Your proposition:
“had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market”
is demonstrably false.
The markets demonstrably existed for a millennia prior to the transatlantic slave trade.
Deflection from this fact is willful ignorance, or willful deception.
Fool or knave?
We are NOT talking about any slave trade or even African slave trade. The article is about a man who was part of the last slave ship to the US.
That is what we are talking about. Very much like the left you are trying to generalize a topic Not going to play