Should African tribes/ethnic groups who sold blacks to the Arabs/Europeans be held accountable?

[Raptor]

Considering that most black slaves who were sold to the slave markets in the Americas and the Arab world were captured and sold by other Africans, should we start holding these ethnic groups accountable like we do whites? Should these people be made to apologise and acknowledge the crimes of their forefathers.

 

[ORDER_66]

Partially. yes...

 

[Faneto]

Yes.

 

[KravenMorehead™]

 

[QamYasharahla]

Yes, you're going into slavery along with the so called white man and other nations.

 

[Raptor]

Yes, you're going into slavery along with the so called white man and other nations.

My tribe never sold slaves to the whiteman








Hebrew Israelites

 

[QamYasharahla]

My tribe never sold slaves to the whiteman








Hebrew Israelites

You're an Ethiopian correct? Hence your people are the original Babylonians? Yes, you had us in slavery, and you're going into slavery.

 

[Raptor]

You're an Ethiopian correct? Hence your people are the original Babylonians? Yes, you had us in slavery, and you're going into slavery.

alright then.

 

[QamYasharahla]

alright then...When can I start toiling the soil my Hebrew overlord

Get ready...

 

[Raptor]

Can I do anything now....I prefer to have a head start over those other damned slaves

Get ready...

 

[QamYasharahla]

Can I do anything now....I prefer to have a head start over the other damned slaves

You can make mockery all you want heathen, the Most High is against you.

Zephaniah 2:12

12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

 

[Raptor]

You can make mockery all you want heathen, the Most High is against you.

You do realise the biblical term Ethiopian refers to the Nubians of Sudan

 

[Axum Ezana]

did they think they were selling them into indentured servitude ?

 

[Premeditated]

yall can kiss my entire ass.
but seriously, I don't think most Fulanis today are even aware that some of the ancestors had a hand in selling their brehs.

 

[Raptor]

did they think they were selling them into indentured servitude ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html

But the sad truth is that the conquest and capture of Africans and their sale to Europeans was one of the main sources of foreign exchange for several African kingdoms for a very long time. Slaves were the main export of the kingdom of Kongo; the Asante Empire in Ghana exported slaves and used the profits to import gold. Queen Njinga, the brilliant 17th-century monarch of the Mbundu, waged wars of resistance against the Portuguese but also conquered polities as far as 500 miles inland and sold her captives to the Portuguese. When Njinga converted to Christianity, she sold African traditional religious leaders into slavery, claiming they had violated her new Christian precepts.


Did these Africans know how harsh slavery was in the New World? Actually, many elite Africans visited Europe in that era, and they did so on slave ships following the prevailing winds through the New World. For example, when Antonio Manuel, Kongo’s ambassador to the Vatican, went to Europe in 1604, he first stopped in Bahia, Brazil, where he arranged to free a countryman who had been wrongfully enslaved.

African monarchs also sent their children along these same slave routes to be educated in Europe. And there were thousands of former slaves who returned to settle Liberia and Sierra Leone. The Middle Passage, in other words, was sometimes a two-way street. Under these circumstances, it is difficult to claim that Africans were ignorant or innoccent