[ByteMercenary]

Actually I once read the comments of a guy who believed that the Africans that were captured were neither the brightest nor the quickest. The more intelligent and the more athletic were able to evade the slave trader’s traps.

The writer felt that scenario helped explain several things about today’s descendants of the slaves. Maybe so ...

[heterosupremacist]

ByteMercenary wrote: Actually I once read the comments of a guy who believed that the Africans that were captured were neither the brightest nor the quickest. The more intelligent and the more athletic were able to evade the slave trader’s traps The slaves were not captured by whitey (Roots' was a propaganda film that showed white men chasing and capturing slaves in Arica). the reality is the local Chiefs traded their young men for trinkets. This is why it became known as the slave trade!

[Aevery_Freeman]

Actually, more developed tribes, as a business, captured lesser types and sold them.

Square-face gin was a popular trade medium.

But that misses my point: the irony of the premise that Black wizards were captured and forced to work cotton and cane fields.

Nice wizard you got there.