As the African American studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has written and I have experienced, people are often uncomfortable learning that Africans sold one another into this living hell. A common objection is that Africans had no way of knowing what conditions their captives would encounter. But they saw those captives being marched all but to death, sold like animals and penned into a slave castle hold. Black African slave traders had more than enough information to understand the fundamental immorality of the undertaking. If whites had seen even only what the Africans saw, we would not hesitate to judge them as unforgivably complicit in sin.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
From the article this is one of those things he assumes no one knows and just personally found out.
The difference is slaves in Africa still gave birth to free citizens, that is what everyone assumed was happening. If they had known every one of their descendants were going to be slaves, there’s likely have been more resistance and at least higher prices if not out refusal of sale.
It was supposed to be a more moral option than killing everyone from a tribe you were warring with.
The author claiming to be an expert, but completely ignorant of the difference isn’t worth listening too
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
From the article this is one of those things he assumes no one knows and just personally found out.
The difference is slaves in Africa still gave birth to free citizens, that is what everyone assumed was happening. If they had known every one of their descendants were going to be slaves, there’s likely have been more resistance and at least higher prices if not out refusal of sale.
It was supposed to be a more moral option than killing everyone from a tribe you were warring with.
The author claiming to be an expert, but completely ignorant of the difference isn’t worth listening too