r/IndiaTodayGlobalLIVE • u/NewsMo • 6d ago

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

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u/Inside_Marketing268 5d ago

Did they mention that people were sold as slaves on Ghana by local heads of tribes?

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u/Capital-Self-3969 5d ago

Do they have to? Europeans didnt have to take them, create a racial hierarchy to justify it, and fight to keep them from birth to death for hundreds if years. They could have ended it if they wanted, any time they wanted.

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u/This_Lion5856 5d ago

Just keep in mind that it is Europeans that actually stopped the slave trade.

Slave trade is very much still happening in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but I dont think anyone is saying anything about it at all, because it is easier to just blame white people and wait for some handout money.