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West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began
Reuters ^ | August 7, 2019 | Angela Ukomadu

Posted on 08/08/2019 1:21:56 PM PDT by mtrott

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the promise they would put her through school.

In her home town in southwest Nigeria, her mother had trouble making enough money to feed her three children. But when Blessing arrived in Abuja, instead of going to school, the family worked her round-the-clock, beat her with an electrical wire if she forgot one of her chores and fed her rotten leftovers.

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KEYWORDS: abuja; africa; islam; nigeria
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So, slavery is STILL going on in Africa TODAY, yet according to the Dems and the media, America as we know it is a terrible country today because some of our founders owned slaves over two hundred years ago?

I'm not holding my breath until CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/NYT cover this.

1 posted on 08/08/2019 1:21:56 PM PDT by mtrott
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
They'd better watch it -- Moochelle will start a sternly worded Twitter hashtag!.

2 posted on 08/08/2019 1:25:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: mtrott

It’s what Africa has always done best.


3 posted on 08/08/2019 1:25:59 PM PDT by sphinx
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Oh, those damn evil caucasians

When will they ever learn?

When will they evvvvvvvvvvvvver learn?


4 posted on 08/08/2019 1:26:37 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Pussie Smollett, Mizzou, campus fake nooses, fake "protests" FAKE EVERYTHING Hey CNN? lol)
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To: mtrott

Oh man, more reparations for us white Americans to pay?


5 posted on 08/08/2019 1:26:53 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: mtrott
African slave trade existed hundreds of years before the transatlantic trade began.
6 posted on 08/08/2019 1:27:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: mtrott

“the family worked her round-the-clock, beat her with an electrical wire if she forgot one of her chores and fed her rotten leftovers.”

I think her name must be “Cinderella,” not “Blessing.”


7 posted on 08/08/2019 1:29:12 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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It’s not just Africa. Any really poor country, where people have trouble putting food on the table, is gonna have something like this.


8 posted on 08/08/2019 1:29:24 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: mtrott

While our Super Spoiled Minorities of all colors whine and complain that after 200 years of living in the USA, they are still unable to survive without White People’s money.

Too bad Lincoln was assassinated before he was able to return all Black slaves to Africa after the Civil War as he planned.


9 posted on 08/08/2019 1:30:09 PM PDT by txrefugee
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Yeah, and I imagine that Blessing would probably be thrilled to be able to live in the United States about now.


10 posted on 08/08/2019 1:30:30 PM PDT by mtrott
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Bingo! ALL BLM members should be parachuted into the African country of their choice.


11 posted on 08/08/2019 1:39:02 PM PDT by Amberdawn
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Well it should. It had been going on for 1000 years before it ever reached the West!

Submission/Subjugation/Slavery/Islam

No Honky Crackers involved!

Hopefully the Honky Crackers will finally confront this abject affront to humanity and wipe it from the earth for good, and not just in civilized areas.

12 posted on 08/08/2019 1:42:04 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: rawcatslyentist

I asked a black shipmate where honky came from.
He said that to blacks, who grow up around other
low-register vocalizing blacks, white speech
sounds like geese honking.


13 posted on 08/08/2019 1:55:38 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: txrefugee

It’s funny how the female descendants of American women who couldn’t vote, couldn’t go to many colleges, and couldn’t hold many high-paying jobs for decades, and the coal miners, factory and mill workers and other blue collar workers whose labor was exploited for decades, aren’t in line for any of the proposed $500 billion in reparations. There were other types of oppression and exploitation in America’s past besides chattel slavery.


14 posted on 08/08/2019 2:27:53 PM PDT by Cecily
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Slavery in America was just a blink In slavery’s history.

Slavery is the oldest profession, prostitution isn’t even close.


15 posted on 08/08/2019 2:40:59 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BenLurkin

Yes the title implies slavery is a Western (i.e. White Race) invention...


16 posted on 08/08/2019 2:48:29 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: Zhang Fei

....mainly the turd world controlled by the islamic monopoly, where we see their numbers as the OIC at the UN.

Western man does not suffer this problem.


17 posted on 08/08/2019 3:07:16 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Zhang Fei

I tinks that the muslims are openly practicing slavery in about 12 African nations today.


18 posted on 08/08/2019 3:08:44 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: sparklite2

Its origins are murky but one story says it comes from a slang slurred version of Hungarian.


19 posted on 08/08/2019 4:14:01 PM PDT by xp38
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I always thought it was a name for white liberals who make a lot of noise but never do anything...


20 posted on 08/08/2019 5:27:15 PM PDT by elteemike (Light travels faster than sound...That's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak)
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