[SmokingJoe]

In some ways yes....had white people not been willing to pay for slaves there wouldn’t have been a market

Wrong!
Read this:

Slavery: Trans-Saharan Trade
http://www.worldhistory.biz/sundries/27773-slavery-trans-saharan-trade.html

No to mention the Arabs emasculated a significant portion of their black African slaves and turned them into eunochs to guard their harems which were full of horny women.

[Nifster]

The article is talking about the US slave trade

I care about slavery today and yesterday. One cannot pretend that the US did not engage in the practice. Pointing at others saying they did it too is nothing but deflection

Until we face and deal directly with the issue it will forever haunt us