Going to Africa


Forgive me if I'm not well educated BUT I never understood how it was possibly legal to go to another country and just kidnap people to use them as slaves? Kunta Kinte and his people were living in peace,not hurting anyone and all of a sudden these inhuman monster whites just invade their land and abduct them?!

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Because of the evil white man. They invaded off the coasts of Africa and rounded up the Africans to sell as slaves in the Americas

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Yeah. I mean, it's not like evil Africans were rounding up and selling their own people as slaves to anyone who would visit their kingdoms... Oh... Wait a minute. Never mind.

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Not what my college professor told me about slavery. Stop trying to revise history

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OK, that's being just a bit too obvious.

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NO. LOL.

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Not legal, at least not in the U.S. and assuming the Constitution is read as it was intended. Unfortunately, the Constitution was ignored and the rest is history. But slave trading was the de facto method of obtaining low cost labor all around the world, a practice that *continues* to this day.

As for those inhuman white monsters, skin color had nothing to do with it. If European skin never lightened after leaving Africa tens of thousands of years earlier, nothing would have changed. Those people had superior technology and the equipment and knowledge to pull it off. Skin color had nothing to do with it.

Africans kept other Africans as slaves, and made it very easy for white slave traders to acquire the people required. Many slavers only needed to dock and enslaved people were already to be loaded for a price.

EDIT: giving this some more thought, I can't discount skin color entirely. While I still believe that if Europeans had remained black, there still would have been a slave trade, but I'm left wondering to what extent?

One if the things white folks did to keep their consciences in check was to convince themselves that black people were subhuman. I believe a big reason blacks weren't allowed to learn to read and write is because it would have been hard to explain. Only humans can do things like read and write.



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I believe a big reason blacks weren't allowed to learn to read and write is because it would have been hard to explain. Only humans can do things like read and write.

They wanted to keep the slaves illiterate, so it would be easier to control them.

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EDIT: giving this some more thought, I can't discount skin color entirely. While I still believe that if Europeans had remained black, there still would have been a slave trade, but I'm left wondering to what extent?

One if the things white folks did to keep their consciences in check was to convince themselves that black people were subhuman. I believe a big reason blacks weren't allowed to learn to read and write is because it would have been hard to explain. Only humans can do things like read and write.

I'm not so sure. If you study history between southeast asian cultures, you'll see that the Japanese considered Koreans and Chinese as sub human, even though their skin tone is roughly the same. The atrocities committed in the area between them are holocaust level equivelent.

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But don't Asians look as different to each other as Asians do to Westerners?

In any case, I believe that the physical differences between whites and Africans was enough to at least keep slavery lingering longer than it would have if Africans were no different. I also can't help but wonder if the Colonists would have bought slaves at all if they were, say, other Europeans like Slavs for instance. Maybe it would have been more like indentured servitude for a finite time before being freed.

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I believe you have a valid point. The more different they are, the easier it is to dehumanize them.

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There was no international law! Slavery was permitted in Islam, Muslims ran the slave trade even before America was discovered. Slavery was common everywhere.

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You are uninformed or misinformed of the nature of slavery of that day and age.

Africans captured/caught/jailed/imprisoned/(whatever word you want) their fellow countrymen/women in wars and other reasons. They sold them to merchants from America and other places. The capture/sold slaves then went on a shitty ass bacteria infected slave ship to the US and other states where they were auctioned or outright sold.

There was no war to capture slaves.

They were bought from the Africans themselves.

PS. Yes, I know Africa isn't a country.

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You need to try a bit harder if you're going to be a troll. Trolling is an art and you're no Picasso.

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I'm not convinced that was a troll. The poster could be young, and simply indoctrinated. Read up about the 1619 project the "progressives" are pushing to teach our children. Frightening.

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Nah, he's trolling.

Based on this comment: "Yeah. I mean, it's not like evil Africans were rounding up and selling their own people as slaves to anyone who would visit their kingdoms... Oh... Wait a minute. Never mind."

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The evil white man went over to (darkest) Africa (armed only with butterfly nets) and stole all those (otherwise, virtuous) black people.......
Regardless of the facts that the black man invented slavery (and still practice it to this day)

But in these days of 'woke'....it's a lot more economically viable (plus generally safer) if we just blame the entire western world for every hardship black people ever suffered (and ignore all the statistics, that show they commit the most crime...usually against each other....in every country they inhabit) Despite sending Africa a shit-ton of aid, decade-in, decade-out, no-one shall ever bemoan their corrupt dicators that take it all.....We must also NEVER EVER talk about Anthony Johnson or William Ellison.....because facts hurt their cause.

Because, you see...Black people are such an ignoble, saintly species that are constantly oppressed (despite decade-old laws that prioritise them over whites....and all in the name of equality, no less?) Forget the fact that not one black person gets paid any less than white (despite putting all their crimes down to 'poverty' or 'discrimination') Forget those forementioned crime-statistics that reveal that they kill more of their own (year in, year out) and just buy into the fact their (so-called) 'heritage' states they were the first people on the planet (whilst conveniently blaming whites for slavery) and enjoy more 'blackwashing' shite like 'Roots'....which seek to (as also the new Democratic government would like to) give black people a free pass (not fonly from their own rampant genocide) but also from personal responsibility for their (in)actions in life?

Just take any random 'adjective' and stick the word 'Racism' at the end....and you'll soon find (a guilt-tripped) society (who've never owned slaves) apologising themselves out of existence, to a subsection of ingrate malcontents (that have never been slaves) armed only with selective memories and bullshit.

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Slavery was legal from the beginning of recorded history and probably prior to recorded history. Laws needed to be passed to make it illegal.

Slavery was abolished in different parts of the world at different times.

Forms of slavery remain legal in some countries at the present.


The accepted number of slaves today (legal and illegal) is 40,000,000, more than anytime in history.


Africans sold other Africans to slaves traders who were sometimes white and sometimes POCs. Regardless, you are correct that Kunte and his people were kidnapped. You are uninformed about who was involved in the purchase and selling at different levels in the supply chain.

You might want to educate yourself to have a better understanding of the world.

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It was only legal in the eyes of the inhuman white monsters. Horrible atrocity. But the human race has enslaved each other for countless centuries. Even now, in our "modern" world, slavery exist. The sex-slave industry makes more than 5 billion a year. (Makes me wonder how anyone knows that. Hmmmm……)

We're not as civilized as we'd like to think. We're barbaric animals.

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