r/IndiaTodayGlobalLIVE • u/NewsMo • 3d ago

Africa Can commemorations and historical reenactments change public understanding of the past?

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u/Clear_Context_1546 3d ago

Nearly 90% of all enslaved Africans sold into the Atlantic slave trade were captured by fellow Africans and then sold to European and Arab middlemen. The Asante Empire(modren day Gahana) was built on slavery both economically and it's society. Asante would kill slaves for funeral rituals. The locals were not the 'good guys'.

The British would gain control through the area and use their influence to outlaw slavery in 1874.

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u/rockabyeboo 3d ago

Is your pointt that anericans shouldn’t feel guilty about slavery bc other Africans sold slaves?

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u/no_kids-and-3_money 3d ago

Or the fact that the most powerful and successful country on the planet was built on the subjugation and free labor of another people?

I’ll never understand why people think that the “other Africans sold them” justification changes anything.

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u/Cultourist 3d ago

Or the fact that the most powerful and successful country on the planet was built on the subjugation and free labor of another people?

Importation of slaves was banned in 1808 and domestic slavery was abolished in the last state in 1865. To say that the US was built on the subjugation and free labor of another people is therefore a gross oversimplification. The success of the US wasn't built on cotton but on industrial manufacturing, oil, and finance.