[reg45]

In reality a slave ship would put ashore and negotiate to purchase slave cargo from the local king.

True! But that would have implicated black Africans for their part in the slave trade.

[Riverman94610]

I don't think any historians of any race deny this fact.Even black nationalist icon John Henrik Clarke derides these African Chiefs as "collaborators on par with those of Vichy France"and Henry Louis Gates interviewed some modern African tribal leaders who are still performing "rites of atonement"to purge them of the sins of their ancestors.They believe the reason Africa is catching hell today is due to their participation in the slave trade.Kind of a Karmic payback.