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Why do African Americans always blame white people for slavery? When in fact their black ancestors were the first slave owners in Africa?
So if you have ever taken history or done research on it. you learned that the people who sold slaves in Africa to white men, were in fact black men who lived in Africa. I'm just curious as to why so many african americans are ignorant to knowing about this.
The civil rights movement of the 1960's have left many people with the belief that the slave trade was exclusively a European/USA phenomenon and only evil white people were to blame for it. This is a simplistic scenario that hardly reflects the facts.
Thousands of records of transactions are available on a CDROM prepared by Harvard University and several comprehensive books have been published recently on the origins of modern slavery.
What these records show is that the modern slave trade flourished in the early middle ages, as early as 869, especially between Muslim traders and western African kingdoms. For moralists, the most important aspect of that trade should be that Muslims were selling goods to the African kingdoms and the African kingdoms were paying with their own people.
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- 5 years ago
Because whites made the decision to make slavery part of American culture. Yes, it already existed in africa. But whites chose to have slavery in america.
