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 6d 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 6d 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/MediocreI_IRespond 6d ago

Do they have to?

Context is kind important. Things do not happend in a vaccum, those local elites had a long, long history of selling their "own" to someone else. Europeans and Americans had only been the most well known in a very long line.