“...he was only 19 years old when members of the NEIGHBORING DAHOMIAN TRIBE captured him and took him to the coast.”
So, it wasn’t the ‘white man’ who captured the slaves and sold them down the river, it was ‘brothers’.
Actually, I did know that. There was a PBS show a while back where the reporter, a descendant of slaves, went back to track down his ruts. He talked about how he had to come to terms with the fact that it was OTHER BLACKS who captured his ancestors, and then sold them to the whites at the ports - as the whites were not about to venture into the jungle to try to capture slaves - way too dangerous. Needless to say, he wasn’t happy about that aspect of his past, but to his credit, he was totally honest about it.
Muhammad Ali was also being honest when, after an eye opening trip to Africa, he expressed happiness that his ancestors were put on that slave ship.
“the whites were not about to venture into the jungle to try to capture slaves - way too dangerous.”
Before the discovery of quinine (after the elimination of the transatlantic slave trade), malaria in Africa would kill half of whites within a year. Western slave ships were just loaded at the muslim slave markets on the coasts - with Africans who had been enslaved by their African neighbors.