“Please keep posting this history. Maybe someone will read it and it will sink in. Many if not most Americans think slavery was Alex Haley’s “Roots.””
I remember maybe 10 or 15 years a black reporter for PBS (of all outlets, LOL) went back to Africa to trace his ruts, and he found out a whole lot that made it difficult for him to deal with with his past - with the big one being that black tribes sold his (obviously black) ancestors ‘down the river’.
The honkies just stayed with their ships in port and bribed the locals...who would then go into the jungle, take whatever means needed to capture people from other tribes (maybe getting them drunk and then chaining them up), and bring them to the ships. Without the help of the locals, there would have been very few slaves for the New World, as the honkies were not about to venture into the jungle to capture them themselves.
The honkies, obviously, weren’t a bunch of angels, but pretty much all groups of people had lots of dirt on their hands.
“black tribes sold his (obviously black) ancestors ‘down the river’”
That was going on for centuries, before European colonization in the New World provided a new market for the slaves.
For most of the slave trade, muslims were the customers, and they ran the slave markets in the port cities.
Most of the slaves brought to America, were enslaved by black Africans, and simply purchased from muslim slave traders.
When the need for labor to develop colonies first developed, Africa already led the world in supplying slaves for sale.
Many of the elites in West Africa today (dominant tribes like the Ibo and Ashanti) rose to pre-eminence on the wealth they generated as slave raiders.
One notable feature of the African slave experience in what is now the United States, was their relatively high survival rate, as compared to rest of the New World.
Some Argentines are proud of the fact that so few of African descent survived there. Around the time of the US Civil War, a virtual genocide of the remaining black population in Argentina took place.