Current Events > 90% of slaves that were sent to the americas were sold by other black people

(+) Yeah! (+)

and obama is a descendant of the luo people who were known to be slave traders and loved war.

3,000 black slave owners in the US owned around 12,000 slaves.

wow.
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So therefore white people aren't racist, checkmate minorities
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HBKick18 posted...

So therefore white people aren't racist, checkmate minorities

Well why is it not allowed to be acknowledged that these things happened
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It was all under the umbrella of the white people, though. They had the weapons and money.

and the slave owners in africa were the ones to keep their slaves shackled and whipped them onto the boats.
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Awesome posted...

3,000 black slave owners in the US owned around 12,000 slaves.

source? ive never heard about this

Transcendentia posted...

Awesome posted...

3,000 black slave owners in the US owned around 12,000 slaves.

source? ive never heard about this

That's a true fact, according to the census of 1830.

Africans understood slavery very differently. Slaves were, of course, slaves, but nonetheless were viewed as and treated as people in most respects. The same cannot be said of Europeans vis-a-vis African slaves.
Moreover, slaving wasn't big business until the Portuguese showed up and started buying African slaves to work their colonial plantations, which, of course, was vastly easier than convincing/coercing actual Portuguese to go. Native Africans learned to fear the Europeans(a common belief seems to have been that white men were cannibals), but ultimately, in any human society, there are plenty of people who will overlook the consequences of their actions as long as it pays well.

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Africans understood slavery very differently. Slaves were, of course, slaves, but nonetheless were viewed as and treated as people in most respects. The same cannot be said of Europeans vis-a-vis African slaves.

Where are you reading any of that?
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Why does CE hate black people so much?
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ZCheveyo posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Africans understood slavery very differently. Slaves were, of course, slaves, but nonetheless were viewed as and treated as people in most respects. The same cannot be said of Europeans vis-a-vis African slaves.

Where are you reading any of that?

from his Revisionist History book

Patty_Fleur posted...

Why does CE hate black people so much?

I don't. My question wasn't meant to sound confrontational, but he said something that I have never heard even on CE so I wanted him to show me where he read it.
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ZCheveyo posted...

ElatedVenusaur posted...

Africans understood slavery very differently. Slaves were, of course, slaves, but nonetheless were viewed as and treated as people in most respects. The same cannot be said of Europeans vis-a-vis African slaves.

Where are you reading any of that?

I recently read a book on the African experience and contextualization of the Transatlantic slave trade which referenced some first-hand accounts. Hardly the whole picture, of course, but it was interesting.

Edit: Found the actual book. Transatlantic Africa 1440-1888 by Kwasi Konadu

HBKick18 posted...

So therefore white people aren't racist, checkmate minorities

No it means both races are complicit.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/b.marfeel.com/amp/historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431