I didn’t think you were justifying slavery at all. I think you are quite incorrect that a slaves had higher mortality in Africa, even in Dahomey, than in being sent to the Americas.
“ I think you are quite incorrect that a slaves had higher mortality in Africa, even in Dahomey, than in being sent to the Americas.”
That’s the crux of it.
The magnitude of human sacrifice is something I didn’t know before. That’s why I’m saying this.
This article reinforces the centrality of human sacrifices to their day to day existence in that building material needed human blood.
Here’s how I see it. The powerful slave trading tribes constantly captured people from weaker tribes.
They had one set of captives they kept and used for their purposes, slaves, concubines etc…
The other set were either used for sacrifice or sold to Europeans.