I find this mentions an interesting detail that he was captured by another tribe before being sold off to come to the US, funny I thought some white guy captured him and brought him here.
The always omitted fact.
Africans were not captured by white men. They were prisoners of other tribes who’s chief sold them to the white or Muslim slavers.
If you go and review African history....tribal warfare was ongoing, and as the victor emerged out of a ‘battle’, the losers fell into two categories...either dead or local slaves. As you get into the very early 1600s...commerce traffic occurs between Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. Traders realize value in the manpower market, and the tribes now have a third category...tradable assets.
Anyone who thinks they were better off in staying in Africa, are totally wrong. You were on a losing tribal side in a ‘war’, and leaving became the better option.
Obama’s ancestral tribe in Kenya is said to have been Muslim and have been slavers in that their main means of income was capturing other Africans and selling them into slavery.
The African slave trade was controlled by Africans and Moslems!
Transport to the US was by British and American slavers.
The white guy slavers were not going to do the dirty work.