Black Slavery History

[Darts]

Since we keep hearing about black slavery ad nauseam. Here is a short history you will not hear during Black History month.

When the "white man" first arrived in Africa, they were shocked to find that slavery was (still is?) widespread and that it was an "accepted cultural custom". The slaves were black as were the slave owners.

Slavery in Africa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

For a very brief period in our history, a very few white people also adopted this "cultural custom" but that ended over 150 years ago and longer in some white countries.

 

[daywalker11]

History is messy.

 

[canada-man]

'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'



Amid the global debate about race relations, colonialism and slavery, some of the Europeans and Americans who made their fortunes in trading human beings have seen their legacies reassessed, their statues toppled and their names removed from public buildings.


Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani writes that one of her ancestors sold slaves, but argues that he should not be judged by today’s standards or values.


My great-grandfather, Nwaubani Ogogo Oriaku, was what I prefer to call a businessman, from the Igbo ethnic group of south-eastern Nigeria. He dealt in a number of goods, including tobacco and palm produce. He also sold human beings.


“He had agents who captured slaves from different places and brought them to him,” my father told me.


Nwaubani Ogogo’s slaves were sold through the ports of Calabar and Bonny in the south of what is today known as Nigeria.


People from ethnic groups along the coast, such as the Efik and Ijaw, usually acted as stevedores for the white merchants and as middlemen for Igbo traders like my great-grandfather.


They loaded and offloaded ships and supplied the foreigners with food and other provisions. They negotiated prices for slaves from the hinterlands, then collected royalties from both the sellers and buyers.

'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves'

The legacies of colonial slave-traders are being reassessed, but what about the Africans who profited?

www.bbc.com

 

[jerimander]

Why aren't they tearing down all the statues in Nigeria?

 

[Darts]

If you believe the usual suspects (why would any intelligent person do that anyway) one would get the impression that slavery is entirely the fault of the "white man" when it is actually the "white man" who ended slavery in white majority countries. Slavery is still currently alive in parts of Africa and some Muslim countries.

 

[yomero5]

It was Black-on-Black crime, so it's ok. But it was not ok for the white men to buy the slaves from the black slave traders, and build their empires with them.

Why don't we see black people, or their white, lefty lackeys, protesting about the black men being shot and killed weekly, on the streets of US and Toronto??

 

[whiteshaft]

It was Black-on-Black crime, so it's ok. But it was not ok for the white men to buy the slaves from the black slave traders, and build their empires with them.

Why don't we see black people, or their white, lefty lackeys, protesting about the black men being shot and killed weekly, on the streets of US and Toronto??

It's what they call a commonly deployed distraction strategy lol.

 

[Frankfooter]

So what, slavery should be ended everywhere.

 

[luvyeah]

Clearly the white man is at fault for everything wrong with the modern world.
We must consult the Ministry of Truth.

 

[HungSowel]

Stop putting up statues of losers and that will solve most of the statue problems without getting into the slavery angle.

 

[Darts]

It was Black-on-Black crime, so it's ok.

There were black slave owners in the U.S. as well.

William Ellison - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[oil&gas]

If you believe the usual suspects (why would any intelligent person do that anyway) one would get the impression that slavery is entirely the fault of the "white man" when it is actually the "white man" who ended slavery in white majority countries. Slavery is still currently alive in parts of Africa and some Muslim countries.

Slavery is and was an atrocity irrespective of the color of those who enslaved
other human beings. Slavery perpetuated by white Americans stood out as
uniquely evil because of the democratic value they embraced---"We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

 

[Scarey]

We have a nice lady who OWNS a cleaning business(she came here with a 5 year plan and worked very hard) who does our house, who emigrated to Canada from the Congo 13 years ago as a refugee .She had seen some horrific shit in her home country, and is very happy to be in Canada(She certainly doesn't think she was torn from the arms of loving Africa). She's well aware of Black Slavery in Africa, and I would pay her plane ticket and hotel fees to see her sit down with the CBC and ANY member of BLM. She's as tough as nails, knows her history and it would be a sight to see......

 

[canada-man]

Chattel Slavery & How the UK Redeemed Humanity

 

[Darts]

that all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

We have a nice lady who OWNS a cleaning business(she came here with a 5 year plan and worked very hard) who does our house, who emigrated to Canada from the Congo 13 years ago as a refugee .She had seen some horrific shit in her home country, and is very happy to be in Canada(She certainly doesn't think she was torn from the arms of loving Africa). She's well aware of Black Slavery in Africa, and I would pay her plane ticket and hotel fees to see her sit down with the CBC and ANY member of BLM. She's as tough as nails, knows her history and it would be a sight to see......

People like her have my utmost admiration. We were so poor when I was a kid that my mom had to take in boarders to keep body and soul together. Meanwhile, Desmond Cole and friends are constantly moaning "woe is me" and it's all the police's fault.