Lets be honest Slavery built the modern world...

[Hiphoplives4eva]

it's a huge misnomer to group "africans" together and ask why they didn't combat slavery. keep in mind africa is made up of many separate countries/tribes/factions/etc. some of which had been fighting on and off wars against each other for a long time. it wasn't uncommon for captured soldiers/civilians of a tribe to be sold or traded into indentured servitude and in some cases even chattel slavery between african nations. albeit the conditions were generally much better than chattel slavery in the americas.

let's also not belittle the fact that many africans were basically round up and stolen via frequent raids by european slavers. i think the number of slaves taken this way for the atlantic slave trade were actually much higher than what the historical writings say.

so to answer your question, an established history of servitude in africa along with demonic european interference/establishment of african power structures to provide them slaves fostered virtually no incentive for africans on whole to rebel the slave trade as long as demand was there.

Oh this goes without saying. My question still stands though? Why couldn't Africans quickly organize and overwhelm these slavers? I mean, if you look at the Dahomey clan in Benin, they regularly kidnapped the Oyo, Igbo, and other tribes in Western Africa so that they could enrich themselves. I fully understand that blacks were very divided and not keen on working together from the start, but why didn't they try and organize themselves when after the initial raids to stop it? In my research, there are only a few kingdoms that actively fought to end slavery during the early days,(Namely the Nzenga Kongo, King of the Congo, King Agaja of Dahomey, Futa Toro of Benin, and Queen Nzinga of the Angolan Region) but due to slavery proliferation through the continent, i've come to the conclusion that many Africans may have sold each other out as apposed to fighting the slavers in an organized fashion.

I mean, its estimated that there were upwards of 50 million people that were uprooted from Africa and during the Atlantic Slave trade alone (1600's to 1800's). Think about that for a second. That's an immense number of people.

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Well, the exploitation of coal, natural to England, played a large role. Similarly, the fabrication of steel. Both of which relied little on slaves or "resources/technology from the so called 3rd world."

I'll leave it at that though, because as I'm well aware, "evil cacs" is the explanation to everything.

Yea all they needed was coal. Theres no need to be defensive with history, friend, you werent alive back then. It wasnt you, it was them.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Well, the exploitation of coal, natural to England, played a large role. Similarly, the fabrication of steel. Both of which relied little on slaves or "resources/technology from the so called 3rd world."

I'll leave it at that though, because as I'm well aware, "evil cacs" is the explanation to everything.

So you think England made more money off coal than they did off slavery?

 

[Shogun]

Yea all they needed was coal. Theres no need to be defensive with history, friend, you werent alive back then. It wasnt you, it was them.

Trolls gon troll

So you think England made more money off coal than they did off slavery?

My god. The wealth of the British Empire and the Industrial Revolution are very different things. What you apparently find so laughable is a pretty basic fact of European history. Like I already said, the asiento and Navigation Acts clearly were the backbone of British wealth in the 18h century.

All I posted was that it wasn't the ONLY factor in the Industrial Revolution a century later. You need to realize Britain was the wealthiest empire in the world a century before the Industrial Revolution. They're two separate developments.

 

[Trajan]

Oh this goes without saying. My question still stands though? Why couldn't Africans quickly organize and overwhelm these slavers? I mean, if you look at the Dahomey clan in Benin, they regularly kidnapped the Oyo, Igbo, and other tribes in Western Africa so that they could enrich themselves. I fully understand that blacks were very divided and not keen on working together from the start, but why didn't they try and organize themselves when after the initial raids to stop it? In my research, there are only a few kingdoms that actively fought to end slavery during the early days,(Namely the Nzenga Kongo, King of the Congo, King Agaja of Dahomey, Futa Toro of Benin, and Queen Nzinga of the Angolan Region) but due to slavery proliferation through the continent, i've come to the conclusion that many Africans may have sold each other out as apposed to fighting the slavers in an organized fashion.

I mean, its estimated that there were upwards of 50 million people that were uprooted from Africa and during the Atlantic Slave trade alone (1600's to 1800's). Think about that for a second. That's an immense number of people.

Because early on when the Africans had a chance to resist they were trading with the Europeans. By the time the Scramble for Africa popped off the Europeans were too advanced technologically for the African repel.

Do not be mistaken. When the relationship began to evolve into one of domination through colonialism, the Africans fought back. But the Europeans had the Maxim Gun

During the Battle of the Shangani, 700 soldiers fought off 3,000 warriors with just four Maxim guns. It played an important role in the swift European colonization of Africa in the late 19th century. The extreme lethality was employed to devastating effect against obsolete charging tactics, when native opponents could be lured into pitched battles in open terrain. As it was put by Hilaire Belloc, in the words of the figure "Blood" in his poem "The Modern Traveller":

Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not. [8]

 

[thekingsmen]

First I agree with the OP on some things and disagree on others. Slavery of the old days built the empires but didn't keep them modern. It was the modern day slavery that kept the Empires strong and continuous. The creation of corporations helped expand the slavery market into the 20th and 21st century. Their empires didn't effect just Africa on a wide scale but everywhere( Asia, South America, the islands of the globe).

 

[Kritic]

to add to what kingsmen said, today they have the "education system" and "economic policies" in african countries and the world that has the africans/3rd world countries handing over their sh1t without a fight.

and you have the asians putting in work making the jordans and iphones til they jump off roofs.

 

[gho3st]

cheap labor has always been used to build shyt