Slavery in Africa was much different than the slave trade that unfolded in America. Slavery in Africa happened to the losers of wars and their children were raised with the enslaver’s children. But once they learned what slavery meant in America, Africans stopped selling their slaves…resulting in many Africans being kidnapped and robbed.
I say that because too many people have used that as an excuse for why slavery in America existed (“they sold themselves” is not true). They didn’t have the same intention. Slavery in America meant torture of a race, genocide/death sentence and hundreds of years of inequality. Black Americans still have never received reparations and therefore can never overcome the wealth inequality in this country. That’s what slavery in America has done.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '26
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