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Don't believe him BillyBoom. He's wrong. The first slaves in America were brought here by the Dutch.
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery
Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
Throughout the 17th century, European settlers in North America turned to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful labor source than indentured servants, who were mostly poor Europeans.
Though it is impossible to give accurate figures, some historians have estimated that 6 to 7 million black slaves were imported to the New World during the 18th century alone, depriving the African continent of some of its healthiest and ablest men and women.
Too funny, you do know that blacks in Africa sold more "blacks" into slavery than whites right, you do know that right?
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Traditional African rulers whose ancestors collaborated with European and Arab slave traders should follow Britain and the United States by publicly saying sorry, according to human rights organisations.
The Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria has written to tribal chiefs saying: "We cannot continue to blame the white men, as Africans, particularly the traditional rulers, are not blameless."
The appeal has reopened a sensitive debate over the part some chiefs played in helping to capture their fellow Africans and sell them into bondage as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
The congress argued that the ancestors of the chiefs had helped to raid and kidnap defenceless communities and traded them to Europeans. They should now apologise to "put a final seal to the history of slave trade", it said."
African chiefs urged to apologise for slave trade
Doesn't change the fact that white Europeans also captured and brought slaves over here. Even if Africans did capture other tribes and sold them as slaves, they aren't the ones that brought them here. White Europeans did.
The Hawk was claiming that it was Africans who were solely responsible for the slave trade. I was simply pointing out that wasn't true.
You are correct and he is wrong, but nobodies hands are clean here.
Never said that. Use the click to expand button, and you can see that the Hawk claimed that Africans captured them, and Spaniards brought them here. I was simply pointing out it wasn't the case. Wasn't defending one way or the other.
Slavery in Africa existed long before European colonization of the Americas. The Spanish also enslaved many Natives in the Americas. The problem was most of the natives died due to their immune systems not able to handle diseases, Africans were seen as stronger as they didn’t have the problem of diseases. So they started the trans Atlantic slave trade. Before this, Muslims enslaved millions of Africans since the 9th century. Sure, the Portuguese, French, Dutch, and Brits engaged in the slave trade for a time as well, but the vast majority of African slaves were not captured by them, they were captured by other Africans. But, nobody ever wants to talk about all that, it’s always just the fault of white Europeans or Americans. To lay all the blame on “whitey” is just disingenuous.