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.”
It’s also worth noting that if Kunte Kinte Had gone N / NE, to Arabs as a slave, Roots would have been about 5 pages and been called stumps.
“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.
many folks thin that only white racists owned slaves- it’s not true- One black slave owner owned nearly 60 slaves- some black folks were slave traders- I believe it was British folks that were brought here as slaves-
“When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed
A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
“One of the things that both the public and many scholars have tended to take as given is that slavery was always racial in nature – that only blacks have been slaves. But that is not true,” Davis said. “We cannot think of slavery as something that only white people did to black people.””