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Which surrounding "African" groups invaded or conquered the Igbo/Ibo to send them into slavery? and Why were the Igbo so susceptible to slavery?
Ghanians went through the same thing. For them it was more than likely Dahomey. For the Igbos, It could have been the Benin Kingdom to the west of them and some tribes on the shoreline, that were part of the Aro Confederacy. Aro Confederacy did not start in Nri kingdom but outside of it, when they started dealing with Europeans. The Aros rose to prominence around the time the slave trade began, its not a coincidence. It compromised of Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ijaw, Urhobo and some people that are considered Igbo today. Some of these people were also sent into slavery for resisting the Aro Confederacy as well. People were not willingly going into slavery, there was counters to it. You could have a friend you do business with that joined Aro and he could trick you into being sent into slavery to show his loyalty to Eze Aro. Aro also created a shrine with an oracle and people would come to pray at the shrine and the priest would do say that the oracle is saying you need to go into slavery and they would seize them right there.
Also the Niger River was shared by different groups. I'm sure conducting business/trading with other groups along the Niger River and shores was tougher to do. Don't think that people didn't fight back, but without the Europeans weaponry it can get tougher, I know that some of the raids were led by Europeans, its the reason why they had maps of all Igbo towns by 1700. The book I posted earlier has the map and details it. You see once, you were able to get guns, it makes it easier to take raid villages for slaves.
I believe that Igbos (originally called Heebos by Euros) and Ghanaians as well were targeted because they were Hebrews and the Europeans, especially the British in all their craftiness identified the same people who built up Egypt as slaves, the Israelites. These groups were not dummies either, they were industrious and were skilled in all things. They didn't just work in the fields, they were skilled in multiple areas making them useful for building Amerikkka. The slave trade happened to us because were not obeying God's commandments and started worshipping idols and taking on heathen customs like our neighbors. The transatlantic slave trade fulfilled the prophecy by Moses that the children of Israel will be sent into captivity by slave ships if they did not obey the laws of God. Remember when he told them this, they had just got out of 400 years of slavery. We and our ancestors are to blame, because we disobeyed the LORD and he fulfilled this:
Deuteronomy 28
68 And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen
Egypt is spiritual term that means the house of bondage. Its no coincidence that this nation's capital has an obelisk and that a pyramid is on the back of the 1 dollar bill.
Washington monument is an obelisk, originating from Ancient Egypt. It is not a coincidence, its prophecy.
Exodus 20
2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Deuteronomy 28
45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.
47 Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
49 The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;
50 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young: