The Fallacy of Blacks Selling Blacks - the Atlantic Slave Trade

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

On top of it being ethically wrong, its just incredibly bad business to trade human beings for material goods like rum and guns lol.

Africa had a population of around 100 million people in 1600, this was the case in the mid 19th century. I guess when you sell 10-20 million people from the populous part of Africa, bad things happen.

If the Slave Trade didn't happen, it would've been much harder for Europeans to have conquered Africa.

 

[Poitier]

Africa had a population of around 100 million people in 1600, this was the case in the mid 19th century. I guess when you sell 10-20 million people from the populous part of Africa, bad things happen.

If the Slave Trade didn't happen, it would've been much harder for Europeans to have conquered Africa.

Or at least sell them for the knowledge behind the industrial technologies at the time lol.

 

[BaggerofTea]

The excuse making for what amounts to crimes against the humanity just because the sellers had black skin

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Or at least sell them for the knowledge behind the industrial technologies at the time lol.

African leaders, since their interaction with Europeans, have largely been trading limited resources for things created by human capital. Although the process of that exchange ultimately harms Africa's ability to produce human capital.

1811 example - The king of Ashanti sells Fante to the Dutch in exchange for guns.
2011 example - The Prime Minister of Ethiopia sells land to the Chinese in exchange for building a train system.

The problem with the 2011 example is that China isn't increasing Ethiopia's ability to make things like trams, rails. Moreover, the trains may be operated by the Chinese!

 

[BaggerofTea]

It makes a big difference

No it doesn't you amoral piece of shyt

 

[Mowgli]

Doesn't matter if it was different ethnic groups that sold other ethnic groups into slavery. It's still deplorable.

Doesn't matter if it wasn't chattel slavery, it's still deplorable.

Yea put them in cages to be slaves to corporations.

 

[brother walt]

i learn something new everyday ima have to get a dna test to see where im from

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

If YOUR people recognized that, black people would be better off, you cracker bytch

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Black people becoming black in the New World is dumb and I expected better from this YouTuber. Africans been aware that they were black. Still watching tho.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Okay his part on African slavery being different from European chattel slavery I agree with and some stuff he said I didn't even know about especially masters in Mali not being able to mistreat their slaves.

 

[Poitier]

The chattel slavery stuff doesn't even hold up well when you had African royalty traveling to the colonies themselves and witnessing the brand of slavery practiced.

 

[Ghpstface]

If YOUR people recognized that, black people would be better off, you cracker bytch

 

[BelowTheMasonDixon]

The chattel slavery stuff doesn't even hold up well when you had African royalty traveling to the colonies themselves and witnessing the brand of slavery practiced.

Is this true?

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Black people becoming black in the New World is dumb and I expected better from this YouTuber. Africans been aware that they were black. Still watching tho.

I think it depends. The Igbo, for example, gained a stronger self awareness of themselves in the Americas. Though, they spoke a mutually intelligible language and worshipped the same deities - Igboland was politically divided in those days.

A similar process occurred when Nigeria was incorporated as a British colony.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Is this true?

Yes. Africans travelled to the Americas as free people. Usually, a governor would give them a document stating who they were.