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will reply lateragain i have to disagree here. i haven't studied extensively into the role different tribes had in capturing and selling us to the europeans, but i have done some reading. i'm generally aware of the political situation of that time and the pressure some tribes were under. ironically, i was in half price books just yesterday thumbing thru a book on slavery. it was a compilation of writings, from white ship captains to african kings/chiefs and even the enslaved. I don't remember the name of the book but it included an excerpt from Olaudah Equiano, a captured slave, and John Newton who was a captain. It also included a couple of excerpts from kings of tribes who participated and colluded with the white man.
so "ya'll sold us" is rooted in reality, though i will grant that it's an extreme case of simplifying a complex situation.when caesar conquered gaul the allobroges were one of the prominent tribes at that time and they allied with the romans for most of that war, which eventually saw a million of them displaced, another million killed, and a third million sold into chattel slavery. rome then controlled gaul for the next 400 years en route to conquering the known world, so the selling out isn't something exclusive to Blacks, and to tell the truth it's not an area where I'd spend alotta time. most every if not every race of people has been enslaved at some point in their history, but no people can be completely overrun and conquered without some sellout segment of that people helping the enemy. the point i would stress when it comes to slavery is that chattel slavery was a white invention and has always been the white man's way, whether he was enslaving his fellow greeks, romans, gauls, or africans. i would stress that unchangeable aspect of his nature.
but as far as our people go, i'd like to go back further than that. you see, i believe we need to analyze what happened in northern africa in antiquity and study the different factors that led to us losing Egypt and eventually northern africa. what were our internal weaknesses - see what i'm saying? because we're always going to have to deal with outside forces, but our internal weaknesses are what gave the arabs and white folks the opening they needed. and gaining that critical foothold in northern africa basically gave the arabs and europeans an open road to the rest of the continent.
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